Love in Every Stitch by Lee Gant
Author:Lee Gant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Love in Every Stitch
ISBN: 9781632280299
Publisher: Viva Editions
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
part five
Giving
chapter fourteen
Keep On Casting On
GALE AND I HAVE the kind of friendship where weâre both busy at opposite ends of the day and if we donât call each other for a while, itâs perfectly okay because we still care about each other. She called me one winter Saturday and told me that her sister just had an operation.
âIs she okay?â
âSheâs fine now, but sheâs sleeping and I donât want to leave her. Youâre going to laugh, but the reason Iâm calling is that I ran out of yarn. Iâve been here for a few days and I finished my socks. I donât have anything to knit with and I donât know where any yarn stores are.â
âWhere are you? Iâll bring you something from my hoard upstairs.â
âIâm at San Francisco General. Dress warm, itâs freezing outside.â
âCan you believe it? I know how to get there. Iâll put something together and see you in an hour then. Do you need a pattern, too? What do you want to knit?â
âJust a ball of sock yarn will do, if you have one.â
âHa ha, very funny. So your sisterâs going to be okay then?â
âYeah, sheâs okay for now, but weâll be here for a while. Iâll tell you about it when you get here.â
I get a bag for a few different colorways of sock yarn, a couple extra pairs of circular needles, a bag of pretzels, and a thermos of hot coffee. I canât imagine being somewhere without something to knit, especially waiting in a hospital. I grab my knitting bag on the way out the doorâ¦I might stay long enough to work on my shawl.
âHey, Gale,â I whisper. The door is open. Her sister is sleeping with monitors beeping and although the medicinal hospital smell reminds me of painful times, somehow I like it. The patient on the other side of the room has her curtain open, but sheâs asleep as well. Gale ushers me into the hallway and after a giant hug, fills me in on her sisterâs condition. She opens the bag of sock yarn and yelps a whoo-hoo, which wakes both her sister and the other patient.
âOops. Come in and meet my sister. The other girlâs name is Lorraine.â
We tiptoe in and I introduce myself. Galeâs sister, Toni, mumbles a drugged hello and drifts back to sleep. Lorraine, probably in her early fifties, is all the way awake and when she sees yarn in Galeâs hands, she sits up in her bed.
âIâve been watching your friend knit,â she tells me.
Gale holds up her finished socks for me to see.
âI knit all the time. I would be knitting now if I could. Can somebody please get me a drink of water?â
I move the tray with the pitcher closer to Lorraineâs bed and pour a cupful.
âThank you so much.â
âYouâre welcome.â What a nice gal, she looks fine and I wonder whatâs wrong with her but I donât ask. Gale pulls a chair for me in between the two beds and casts on for a sock.
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