Do you have a large knife in your bag?

As some of you know, I work in the Sears Tower.   With today’s news of a terrorist plot against the Sears Tower and other buildings in Miami, security was a bit higher today.

I was hoping for helicopters swooping and police sirens sirening, and dogs sniffing, but instead, we just got a few extra cops out and about.   However, the guy who x-rayed my knitting bag (which they rarely bother to do), stopped, looked at me, and went:

“Do you have a large knife in your bag?”

And I’m like, Um, no.  Of course not.  Who would carry a large knife into the Sears Tower on the day of High Security OMG we’re gonna DIE alert day?
Except I actually did.  It was just a dinner knife, but I had taken brownies into my training course, and I needed a knife to cut them, and I completely forgot I had stashed it into my knitting bag.  After I pulled it out of my bag, the guy sort of rolled his eyes, I kept my knife, and then I went and bought some bacon for breakfast.  MMMMM, BACON.

In knitting news, my very very very very good friend Monica had knitted up all the pieces of Tidal Wave from Rowan’s Plaid Collection.  I had scored 10 balls of Plaid along with the book super cheap on eBay, but hadn’t done anything with it.   Monica was looking for somethign to knit, so I send her the yarn, the pattern book, and told her she could make me whatever she wanted.  Except for a poncho.  Or that weird hat thing.  Or that weird jacket thing with the tie.

So, I got all the pieces, and I knit the collar and put them together.

I need to steam the seams, but it looks amazing on.  I will need to wear something under it, but its very curvy, and not at all bulky.  The yarn is very lightweight, despite being knit on size 10.5 needles.

Oh, and I finished the first Denver Bronco sock:

Its meant for my grandma, but I’m tempted to keep it.  It fits me perfectly.  It has a round toe, which I really like on my foot.  There isn’t a seam at all - you decrease evenly until you have 8 stitches left, and then just draw them shut.