We were talking about nightmares on Wednesday. Well, while nightmares are never pleasant, at least they’re not real. Unlike what happened to me the other day. Let me show you.

I know the picture is dark, so I’ll describe it to you. I happened to walk in on my three year old holding a pair of scissors, AND the back of my cardigan. She claimed she wasn’t cutting anything. That was a relief, but didn’t prevent the near miss of a heart attack upon first entering the room. It wasn’t until later, when I was cleaning the area, that I found the other potentially disastrous object. It was just out of view at the time, but was none the less in dangerous proximity to my sweater. The green Sharpie pen.

The crazy part of all of this is that once I realized she wasn’t cutting my sweater, I left her to it and stumbled off to another room. Don’t ask me why. I’m still extrememly tired from being sick, so I’m hardly thinking straight. When I came back later, I found it as you see in the picture. All of the elements of a real life nightmare that by some miracle, seems to have been avoided. My sweater-in-progress, scissors, a permanent marker she shouldn’t have access to, and my three year old. There is a knitting angel out there somewhere, assigned to me. I publicly thank her.

Speaking of thanks…. Thank you all for your input yesterday. I think I’m going to leave it. Mainly because it does look nice the way it is, and I like the celtic cables so much that I’m sure I’ll take an opportunity to knit one again. Not the VCC, but I’ll knit another sweater with a similar cable, and I’ll make sure it’s more celtic next time. Plus, I could hardly risk the anger of Hayden. She sounded quite forceful in the comments yesterday. :-).

UPDATE- Whoa! I totally forgot about knitalong day! Wow. I remembered, and then completely forgot. I’m telling you, my brain isn’t right. I’m SO tired! Sorry about that.