Knitting on a Rainy Day

The claps of thunder were always believed to be the reeling in of the flax that Frau Holda, the supernatural matron of both spinning and childbirth. Frau Holda's cloth was finely spun linen, which she might be loaded back into the spindles at night. The threads of her flax were a bit portent, 'as many good years as many threads" and the cloth must be finished by Epiphany. Are you holding the flax, are your hands flying so fast you must stop them to stretch. Play some music from Braveheart and it will take you away to times of castles and candles and let your imagination knit wild.