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Brenda Jones
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Hi I would love to know if you could tell me the name of the stitch used on this Russian site and on this Portuguese (I think) video. I have been looking for a pattern for this and cannot find one with the name of the stitch. Any help would be deeply appreciated.
Brenda
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StephK
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I had a miscarriage last summer (7 months ago) at 11 weeks. I was completely devastated. I read many, many blog posts about healing from miscarriage, and 1 of them suggested crafting such as knitting or crochet. I made my husband a huge knitted scarf. It helped focus me, and sometimes I cried when I was knitting. My friends were making blankets for babies in the NICU, and I decided to make blankets to donate for bereaved parents. It was hard, because I bought yarn labeled “baby,” but I told myself it was to keep me from avoiding the pain of grief. More than productive, it felt important. It was spiritual. I would think about the family, holding their baby in the hospital in the blanket I was making, and what I would say to them, what they were going through. I felt connected to this family that I may never know. I cried, and I spoke to my baby while crocheting. I think crochet provided a safer space to grieve. I brought the blanket to the dr’s office, where I was depressed being around the pregnant women after my loss. When I got pregnant again, I worried about the new baby, and I brought the blanket on the train and to the dr’s office. Sitting in the office for sometimes more than an hour, I could end up ruminating about my fears, and the crochet helped me focus on breathing, staying in the moment, and the reality that there was nothing I could do, and that I didn’t know anything yet. This weekend, I washed the cat hair and cat dander out of the blanket and little tiny hats, and put them in a plastic bag to protect them from our cat mistaking them for a squirrel. I edited the letter to the bereaved family, and I will give it all to the leader of the support group this week. I’m really proud of myself for finishing the blanket and hats, and for facing my grief in a healthy way (most of the time), instead of drinking it away or eating bad things. I got more rainbow yarn (rainbows are gender-neutral and more interesting than green and yellow), and I’m making another blanket, because the grief doesn’t go away, even with a new pregnancy. I think without crochet, and without using a yarn labeled “baby,” I would have ended up dealing with my grief in unhealthy ways.
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