Re: Unfinished projects, was Merry Christmas/Happy New Year
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  • Subject: Re: Unfinished projects, was Merry Christmas/Happy New Year
  • From: A*@aol.com
  • Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:19:41 -0500 (EST)
Those are interesting, Bonnie.  My right hand is not completely disabled - 
just
doesn't work right and cramps if I use it very much.  All those devices 
seem to
replace the left hand.  I guess one could adjust, but the whole knitting 
process
would have to be relearned.  Anyway, I still find plenty to do to keep me 
busy -
and I can do Spider Solitaire on the computer with my left hand.
 
Thanks, anyway.
 
Hope you have a delightful New Year's Eve.  Chet has bought a bottle of
champagne, so I guess we'll watch the ball drop on television.  He has just
been diagnosed with shingles, so maybe he won't want to stay up.  Since
we get up at 5:00 AM on Sundays to go to early church, I expect I will give
up early.  
 
Have a good one,
Auralie
 
In a message dated 12/30/2011 7:25:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
bonnie_holmes@comcast.net writes:

Have you looked for a device for the handicapped for knitting? 


http://onearmedknitting.blogspot.com/ 


http://knitone.efirehose.net/ 


http://stroke.org.au/pdf/SingleHanded.pdf 


B 
ETN Zone 7 
Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 2:05:26 PM 
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Unfinished projects, was Merry Christmas/Happy New Year 

I have at least two partially finished sweaters in a work basket. For years 
I knotted constantly - always took my knitting to meetings, etc. I made 
sweaters, stoles, numerous other things for family, friends, and even sold 
some. A friend who had connections at Bloomingdales' said she could 
place my sweaters there, but I didn't want to be tied down to making the 
same thing over and over. The biggest pleasure was selecting new yarns, 
planning patterns, making up new stitches, etc. I did the most knitting in 
the fall and early winter watching football games on television. Then, 
about 
ten years ago in one of my rounds of Lyme disease, my right hand stopped 
working right. I had had some degree of ulnar neuropathy for years, but not 
enough to keep me from knitting, but that time it did. I miss knitting 
terribly. 
Every once in a while I go back and try again, but it just doesn't work any 
more. I haven't been able to watch football this season, either. 

I have always hated to leave a job unfinished, but for the past year or so 
it 
has seemed thatI was always working on something that I couldn't finish 
until I had a further bit of information from someone I couldn't quite 
reach or 
pin down. Spent a lot of frustrating time that way getting Horticulture 
Schools 
set up across the state, and I can see it coming at me again this spring. 
Oh 
well, I'm officially retired from that job, even though I still do it, so 
maybe this 
year I'll just quit and let someone else cope. 

Happy New Year to all of you. May 2012 be a great one in your gardens. 
Auralie 

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