A Great Fit, and a Rant

This is the custom sweater made for Ellie, the Italian Greyhound. Body, Cascade 220, some grey marl color. Bands, Morehouse Merino worsted, some green/grey color. Tips, Lamb's Pride Worsted, RPM Pink. This sweater fit like a glove, people! I worked a flat panel of ribbing in the center so it would really expand for her curved chest. This is what can happen when you get accurate measurements, and really take into account the dog's body shape.
And now, a rant. About the strange Chicago custom of marking a parking spot with lawn chairs or assorted bad furniture or trash. In some cases, I understand if someone spent hours clearing out a spot to park. But, I've seen people put furniture in places that I know they didn't shovel out. Tonight, I drove around for fifteen minutes looking for a parking space. There were marked spots on my street. People, it snowed a week ago! And it was around 40 degrees today, so a lot of it melted. Now it's just being a bad neighbor. I'm parked one block south, and saw a rat on my walk over to the house. Ick, ick, ick. I have a garage space, but it's occupied by one of the four vehicles belonging to the Man. I forgot to mention that he sort of hoards vehicles along with clothes and papers. I don't think he's ever just owned one car. The Man is an endless source of strange blog fodder.