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wedges, I quit yew
Posted on | August 11, 2008 | 14 Comments
Friday morning I was walking out of my bathroom and tripped over my own feet. Actually, I wobbled on the piece of wood separating the bathroom tile from the hardwood floors in the hallway, and crashed to the ground.
I did what any partially sane person would do – I lie there on the floor of the hallway, cried a teeny bit, gathered my wits about me and my lunch bag from the floor, put my shoes back on and drove to work. My foot really started hurting on the drive, but I figured I’d be fine, I’d tough it out. Got to my desk, worked for a little over an hour and decided I couldn’t go another minute without some water and my tea. I tried to stand up and my foot wasn’t having any of it. I couldn’t put ANY weight on my foot at all! I hopped in to tell my boss that I was going to (somehow) go to the doc in the box for an xray, she insisted on taking me, nothing was broken but I was told to stay off it and out of wobbly shoes for several days.
So I spent Friday afternoon with my foot propped up, watching an ANTM marathon and casting on for a new project because I left my knitting at work! I am really doubting my sanity! I guess I was distracted by the pain. But, I started and finished a new project over the weekend, and my sweater’s on tonight’s agenda.
This yarn has been taunting me since I bought it at SAFF in 2006. It’s Brook’s Farm Acero, 420 yards of superwash, silk and viscose. I originally thought socks, but it’s really too nice for socks. I’ve cast on for at least three different scarves but nothing worked.
Until I tried Maryse‘s Gathered Scarf pattern. It’s the perfect marriage of pattern and yarn! I was so excited, I knit and knit and purled some and knit some more, until this was all I had left:
I love it! Thanks, Maryse, for a great pattern! It’s about 6″ wide and long enough to do the French loop around my neck. It’s drapey but still warm and squishy.
Now if cold weather would just hurry up and get here, I could put those wedges away and wear a new accessory!
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August 11th, 2008 @ 9:54 am
Oh dear! I hope the foot is better and glad it wasn’t broken!
August 11th, 2008 @ 9:57 am
Ouch! I quit wearing Swedish clogs anywhere but indoors after I (more than once; I’m a slow learner) stepped on a small stone and my ankle went sideways. Hope yours feels better quickly, but still — enforced sitting/knitting, such a deal! I have 3 skeins of Acero that are taunting me. It is beautiful stuff but that is not enough for a sweater. Now that I think of it, though, it might be enough for a vest. Hmmm…
August 11th, 2008 @ 10:48 am
i don’t know what’s worse: leaving your knitting at work! or spraining your ankle. i vote for leaving knitting at work. but i’m sure you have other projects to turn to. hope you’re walking around like normal in another day or do!
August 11th, 2008 @ 11:38 am
I’m so glad you didn’t break anything!!! Love the scarf….GREAT yarn!!
August 11th, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
My mother never let me or my sister have clogs when we were growing up, and I wanted them soooo much because the cool kids had them. Actually EVERYBODY had them. But not me. No Dr. Scholls or anything for me. Whining and pleading would only result in hearing the story about why. Oh, what story? Apparently, when I was just a few weeks old, my mother was carrying me downstairs, and what happened to you happened to her, at the top of the stairs. I went flying, all the way down the stairs, around the corner landing, and onto the first floor, with my mother tumbling after. I was retrieved by Charlie, the old farmer whose farm we lived on, who apparently hollered “What kind of mother throws her baby down the stairs?” at my mom, who was tumbling down the stairs and landing in a heap herself.
We were both fine, just bruised and shaken; but that was the day when my mother swore off clogs and anything similar. It was nothing but sensible shoes with good traction the whole time I was growing up (though granted, “sensible shoes” sometimes meant different things when we were in the rural Andes).
August 11th, 2008 @ 12:25 pm
Hey! Carrie’s not here yet! (Maybe I should check on her….)
So sorry to hear about the foot. I have a similar pair of shoes in my closet that should really be given the heave-ho. I am glad that you got some knitting out of it, however. I had the headache from hell yesterday but I know have most of a sock to show for it!
August 11th, 2008 @ 12:32 pm
Now. NOW have most of a sock…. Obviously, the brain is still not right!
August 11th, 2008 @ 12:54 pm
hey that scarf looks great! i’m glad it worked for you.
sorry about the foot but at least you got to get out of work. ;)
August 11th, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
Ouch! Sorry to hear about that. Twisting ankles is no fun at all — I’ve done it enough times to know. :-(
The scarf looks fantastic. Nicely done!
August 11th, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
Sorry about your foot, but the knitting looks good.
August 12th, 2008 @ 6:50 am
I’m sorry to hear about your ankle… but hey, free knitting time! :-) Normally I’m not a glass-half-full girl, but in this case the silver lining is easy to see. The scarf looks great. I love the visual texture. I’m actually tempted to try the pattern and I’m not a scarf person. Hope you feel better.
August 12th, 2008 @ 8:10 am
Oh no!! At least it isn’t broken, though sometimes those sprains can hurt just as much as a break!
hope you are back on both feet soon! you have made nice use of the down time, the scarf is lovely!
August 13th, 2008 @ 10:23 am
Hey! I saw in Dishrag Tag. It is so cool to see everyone from Al. and to find someone who live close by. Do you go to any knit nights around town. We have one in Trussville every Thursday at the Cobblestone Deli. Well, good luck on your team.
August 14th, 2008 @ 6:12 am
Ouch! Feel better soon! The scarf looks wonderful!