DOT Addendum

I have been writing my Dogs on Thursday posts when I have time, saving them as drafts, then publishing them on Thursdays. However something happened this morning that deserved its own post.

Doomed! Doomed, I tell you! I have been trying to make the market bag from Fantasy Naturale for a swap. My “pick up and knit” isn’t very neat, so I set it aside and began a completely different market bag. However, I thought I could redo my pick up and knit and make it neater and finish it at a later date for myself. Lucy might have put an end to that. She ate the circular needle. I knew she was into something when I got out of the shower this morning and she wasn't on the bathroom rug waiting for me. After a while she came trotting in with a smile on her face and something in her mouth. I opened it and pulled out a chunk of fat bamboo knitting needle. I knew this couldn't be good. I left the bathroom to see what was going on. Seems she'd taken the project off the breakfast table and ate the needle. I couldn't find much of the plastic cord so I think a lot went down her. The bag bottom itself seemed to be still together, just laying on the floor. I picked it up and took her to the bathroom so I could keep an eye on her while I finished getting ready. She just took a nap on the floor. I was a little mad but somewhat grateful. I had left four projects on the table--the Clapotis, the other market bag, the dishcloth swap dishcloth, and the one she got. Of all those, she picked the least valuable one. All I can think of was it was too close to the edge and she pulled it down. She's never gotten anything off the table before. She gets smacked if her nose gets too close to it.

Lucy can't resist sticks. I should have known she'd think a bamboo needle is a stick. It must have felt like her lucky day, finding a stick in the house. She knows when she tries to come in with one, it's a no-no. We just say "drop it" and she does before she comes in. Often the doorstep is littered with sticks. Sticks OK, knitting needles not OK.