sherriknits

I saw this on my friend Mary’s blog. I thought it was so touching that I wanted to pass it on.

Grandmother, 98, Survives Quake, Knits to Pass Time (Update1)

By Flavia Krause-Jackson

April 7 (Bloomberg) — A 98-year-old grandmother was found alive by rescue workers this morning after Italy’s deadliest earthquake in three decades buried her for 30 hours under the rubble of her home.

“I worked, I knitted,” said Maria D’Antuono, from the village of Tempera, close to the city of L’Aquila. Her comments were previously reported by television news program “Studio Aperto,” broadcast on Mediaset SpA’s Italian 1 channel.

The elderly woman, who lives alone, was in bed when the 6.3 magnitude quake hit at 3:32 a.m. on April 6, trapping her beneath the wreckage of her home. D’Antuono stayed awake throughout the ordeal, and kept herself busy with her knitting needles. When she was dug out around 8 a.m. this morning, her first request was for a comb to tidy up her appearance.

taken from here .

At knit night last night, several of us thought about wasn’t it fortunate her knitting was nearby. We decided she must be a serious knitter like Elizabeth Zimmermann or Lucy Neatby. (I wonder if I should start keeping knitting in every room? lol…..it’s already taking over my living room and I can’t seem to tame it back!)

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