Proof that toddlers and knitting don't mix.

Unusually I don't have any projects on the needles at the moment. This is the first time in several months that this is the case. You may recall that there was a cabled cardigan on the go a few weeks ago. Sadly, this is now in knitting heaven, plans have been shelved, yarn unravelled.

It seems that my yarn bag (or that should really read 'bags' since there are many more than just one hovering around the house!) has an electro-magnetic pull for inquisitive, toddler hands. We frequently play 15 hook pick-up, when she has emptied my crochet hook case on the floor (she likes the colours and also the noise the hooks make as she rattles them against her teeth!) and my needles apparently make good drumsticks.

It would also appear that knitting on needles makes a good train driver's flag. Unfortunately it has been discovered that knitting comes off needles when waved boistrously around encouraging the passengers to hurry on to the train. And anyone who has tried to put cabled knitting back onto a needle will know how hard it can be. Pulling it back a row, too, complicates matters, and before long I was very confused about where I was up to in the pattern and instead frogged the lot.
The pattern and wool has been stashed and will be made into a bigger version instead.

I should really have known better than to let Caoimhe within a mile of my knitting. Not that I allowed her to use it as a flag intentionally, those of you with small monsters children will know they can wreak havoc in less than 10 secomds flat. But she does have previous for the same crime. A lovely fan and feather patterned shawl, many hours of work, destroyed within seconds when she decided she wanted to play with the needles. Not even my mum could help me out there. Many tears and pulling back row after row to try and get it back on the needles were in complete vain.

Still, I look forward to the day she comes to me with the same problem. I will nod sagely and say, karma sucks doesn't it!