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02-26-2019, 10:06 PM
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HysterSister
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Posts: 337
Hysterectomy: March 12th, 2019
Surgery Type: SAH
Ovaries: Kept 1 or both
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Re: Any other Knitting Knerds? (& other yarn addicts)
My mother taught me to knit (for about half an hour) when I was five. I knitted squares, it wasn't terribly exciting. When I was 24 I decided to reteach myself from a great booklet I found but my tension was ridiculously tight. Then I watched a woman who knitted with her right needle tucked into her armpit and when I tried that, my right hand was free to hold the yarn well and I knitted so fast and evenly I loved it.
About twenty years and multiple beautiful baby shawls later (I found a favourite pattern, so used it again and again, finding babies to receive them readily enough) I was teaching two girls to knit and realised as I did so that somehow I'd worked out how to hold the needles like everyone else I'd ever watched. I'd never quite got the hang of it before.
That meant I could use short needles and have been gleefully knitting socks ever since. They're so wonderfully portable, so comfortable and when I can't afford the yarn, other people will willingly buy it for me to knit socks for them.
The current sock will certainly be in my hospital bag in a couple of weeks.
I've also had a wicked thought since learning, a few days ago, that a hysterectomy is inevitable: I want to knit little hats of different sizes and colours for all my fibroids when they come out!!! I'm not sure l'll do it but it makes me giggle every time I think about it now.
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