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Monday, July 31, 2006

The Cops Took My Pictures..

I would love to show you my most recent finished project.. I really would.. but I can't.. and I won't be able to for probably over a month.

I know that sounds very strange.. but it gets even stranger.. lol.

I've spoken about it before a few times in passing.. but I actually settled down this past weekend and finished the Bobbi Bear I started for my Aunt Nelda. My grandma commissioned me to knit it for her.... I don't even remember when.. but her birthday was in April (I know.. I'm SO LATE!) and it has been a long trudging kind of project.. Mainly because I hated the yarn.. I really just hated it.. it faught me every step of the way.. My boss at work kept laughing when he'd see me at my desk fighting my way out of tangles with this stupid yarn. And ofcourse it doesn't help that I was knitting it double stranded...

..Never again.

No sir.

I will not be buying any more Austermann Mayfair. Even though it is seductively cheap.. I will resist.. because this yarn hates me.

But at any rate.. I was motivated to finnally finish because my dad was going to leave for a month long trip on his motorcycle and his first stop was to be my grandma's house..

The last time I knitted a gift for one of her sisters she didn't get to see it.. and that really tore me up.. so I decided that this bear had to be on the back of my dad's bike before he left for an entire month.

So I finished it.. finnally.. and when I was done I didn't like how bland and naked he looked.. so I took the last ball of mayfair that was dark blue and started a tiny miniture ribbed scarf for him.. and it was going pretty well..

The night before my dad left we went to his work to pick up his car because he won't be needing it ofcourse.. and.. it has air-conditioning.. and our car does not. So we went to get his car and he gave me his Ziplock bag-o-bills (I kid you not.. his filing cabinate is a gallon ziplock bag.) and I showed him the naked teddy and he said it was very cute.. but then I took out the scarf and I said "But.. it's not finished yet.. do you have time? I can finish it now."

Some of you may or may not know.. but my dad is a policeman.. which means he has a police car (Not the car we took off him. LOL.) and he needed to show Brad where his post-office is so we can pick up his mail while he's away..

So... I finished the mini-scarf.... in the back of a police car.

Which I find so entirely hillarious.

I knitted in the back of a police car.

Oh.. and let me just tell you... it wasn't comfy.... it was very hot... and weird feeling... and it kinda smelled..

But just being able to say "I knit in the back of a police car" is quite cool..

So dad is gone.. and he did take the bear with him.. but unfortunately I didn't get to take a picture before he left.. so dad has promised to take a picture of him before he leaves for the next leg of his journey. Otherwise I'll never get a picture of it.. ever.

Which would be sad.. because he is quite cute... I just hate the friggin yarn.. and I'm ashamed that it was so late.

So.. this being done I have no other choice than to sit down and crank out the directions for the Right Front of the TCC... I actually sit down to do it right now.. but as you can see.. I'm blogging.. not pattern deciphering....

......Some things never change.. LOL. I will be a procrastionater to the very end. More than likely the last minute.. lol.
-Kim-   12:46 AM
 


4 Comments:

Would love to see a picture of your Bobbi Bear. I just ordered the pattern for the large one and can't wait to get started on it.
Liz, at 7/31/2006 2:26 AM  
Funny story, and I hope we'll see a picture of the bear soon!
lobstah, at 7/31/2006 8:14 AM  
Funny story! Too bad you don't have a picture of that! It would be great for a "you knit where?" kind of contest.
AR, at 7/31/2006 9:40 AM  
Hehe, that's really funny. Must definatley be one of the more exotic places to knit!
Tina, at 7/31/2006 9:45 AM  

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