Saturday, September 22, 2007
...my heart is broken ...
... because having got halfway up my shawl, i have lost it on a train in Berlin!! so now i shall have to get more yarn, wind it, and start again. and i cannot even be sure that if someone finds it they will know what to do with it, as in finish it off in some way or other, or unwind the yarn and knit it into something else, or something. i mean, i wouldn't mind so much if i thought it would come in useful in some way or other ... as it is, i feel distraught and almost dismembered ... :(((
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they MUST have lost+found in Berlin - you should check there ... I can't believe that such a progressive city wouldn't have something like that!
i've just written an e-mail to their customer service, so i am hoping against hope! or that a nice person finds it, and it goes to a good home! ;)
Oh my goodness, you poor thing! I'd be devastated too! I sincerely hope you find it!
I'm so sorry. That is terrible. I hope it returns back to you.
Inspired by the comments above, I wonder if you could get the Berlin newspaper to do a human-interest story on you and your lost shawl? It might reach some rider who found the shawl and didn't know what they had found.
How very sad. I can only imagine how terrible this is for you!
I am so sad for you. Let's hope someone finds it and becomes inspired to become a knitter. Something good has to come from this.
How very upsetting for you, Ingrid!:(
I agree with Margaret that it's worth trying to contact the railroad company to see if they have a lost and found.
Barbara-Kay's suggestion is also not at all far-fetched. National Public Radio recently broadcast a human interest story about a woman who found a charm bracelet decades ago and always wondered about the owner. Guess what? The original owner now has her bracelet back. :)
Oh how heart breaking. I hope it is found and returned to you. Hmmm....maybe commuters should attach a tag with a contact # or email address to their works-in-progress?
When I was a young girl doing "fancy work" for my "hope chest", I took one of a pair of His and Hers pillow cases with me to a store to match some embroidery floss. I left "Hers" behind and though I went back I never found it. It was decades before I threw out "His".
such nice thoughts from all of you - thank you. and thank you for your ideas - i have already e-mailed a railway customer service site, and if i don't get anywhere with that, i shall try something else. in the meantime, i have started the shawl for my youngest daughter's christmas present, it's an adaptation of the cherry leaf pattern from Jane Sowerby's Victorian Lace Today in Lorna's Lace, a blue/turquoise mix which is one of my daughter's favourite colours, and it's a SECRET!! - but she's too busy to look at my blogs, so that's ok! ;)
ps.: i meant to say, i guess that the best way to get over the loss is to get on with something else. i have sent for more yarn to do the bee fields - how could i not? it's so beautiful and it was for ME!!! but in the meantime, to knit something else beautiful for someone i love ...
I think you're handling the whole thing really, really well. :)
If you do decide to start over on this shawl, you'll have company. I'm not starting for another 3 weeks or so. I'll be happy to knit along with you! I'm sorry you lost all of your work, though.
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