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 we’re both busy at opposite ends of the day and if we don’t call each other for a while, it’s 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.

“Is she okay?”

“She’s fine now, but she’s sleeping and I don’t want to leave her. You’re going to laugh, but the reason I’m calling is that I ran out of yarn. I’ve been here for a few days and I finished my socks. I don’t have anything to knit with and I don’t know where any yarn stores are.”

“Where are you? I’ll bring you something from my hoard upstairs.”

“I’m at San Francisco General. Dress warm, it’s freezing outside.”

“Can you believe it? I know how to get there. I’ll put something together and see you in an hour then. Do you need a pattern, too? What do you want to knit?”

“Just a ball of sock yarn will do, if you have one.”

“Ha ha, very funny. So your sister’s going to be okay then?”

“Yeah, she’s okay for now, but we’ll be here for a while. I’ll tell you about it when you get here.”

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 can’t imagine being somewhere without something to knit, especially waiting in a hospital. I grab my knitting bag on the way out the door…I might stay long enough to work on my shawl.

“Hey, Gale,” 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 she’s asleep as well. Gale ushers me into the hallway and after a giant hug, fills me in on her sister’s condition. She opens the bag of sock yarn and yelps a whoo-hoo, which wakes both her sister and the other patient.

“Oops. Come in and meet my sister. The other girl’s name is Lorraine.”

We tiptoe in and I introduce myself. Gale’s 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 Gale’s hands, she sits up in her bed.

“I’ve been watching your friend knit,” she tells me.

Gale holds up her finished socks for me to see.

“I knit all the time. I would be knitting now if I could. Can somebody please get me a drink of water?”

I move the tray with the pitcher closer to Lorraine’s bed and pour a cupful.

“Thank you so much.”

“You’re welcome.” What a nice gal, she looks fine and I wonder what’s wrong with her but I don’t ask. Gale pulls a chair for me in between the two beds and casts on for a sock.

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