Yesterday was a sad day in my house. I had to bid farewell to a Knitter’s Pride knitting needle. 
These are the size 7 14″ needles from the big set I got as a gift last year. I love these needles. But if you’ll remember, I have two puppies.
They’re both around a year old, between 60 and 70 pounds, and they love to play. I was sitting on the couch yesterday, knitting along while chatting with my SIL who’d come over for a crafternoon, and the puppies started roughhousing. They love to chase each other around the house, nipping and chewing and falling and bumping. They jumped on the couch where I was sitting, and rammed into me. I was irritated at first because they made me drop a few stitches. I pushed the dogs off, picked up the stitches, and knit on to the end of the row. As I turned the work to start the next, I noticed the needle was bent. My dogs have more power than I realized. (My mother’s reaction: “Do you realize you could have been seriously hurt?”) Anyway, fortunately I have another set of metal size 7s, just not the fancy Knitter’s Pride, and I was able to continue on my Gradient Cowl.
That’s the extent of my knitting yesterday. It was not a good yarn today. I do hope today is better. But I will share the photo of my finished Heartbeat Cowl.
The pattern is called River Deep, Mountain High but the red made me think of heartbeats. It still needs blocking and will look much better after that, but I adore this color. Makes me want to start wearing red so I can keep it for myself!
I’m sorry about your needle. I must confess that I’ve been known to gnaw on more than a few bamboo knitting needles myself. They’re just so tasty. [Your gradient cowl is very pretty, by the way! My moms should check out that pattern!]
LOL! Yes, I’ve found knitting needles in my mouth before, but I don’t think I’ve ever left marks. 🙂 The pattern is from Purl Bee. They have gorgeous patterns!
We cats have pretty sharp teeth! Thanks for the name of the pattern designer — I’ll pass that on! That cowl looks exactly like something my LOUD Mom would love to make 🙂
I love everything! Even those cute little destructive puppies!
Sorry to hear about your needle, however, the bright side is that there was no fiber casualties. Beautiful cowls!
Thanks! That’s a good way to look at it. I’ve had fiber casualties before with a puppy, and it was definitely worse.
I love how your cowl turned out. How could you be worried about being wounded when your poor knitting needle died?
Thank you. Exactly! One must think of the knitting before all else.
I heard a rattle while vacuuming last week: it was the remains of a wooden double pointed needle that was being gobbled up by my Dyson. I love your projects!
Oh dear, that’s terrible. See, cleaning is bad for you!
The other week one of my dogs grabbed a ball of yarn and ran around the kitchen island with it. Needless to say, I had a big tangled mess to clean up….
Oh no!! Was it good yarn? I hope it survived.
It survived (and so did the project it was attached to).