When I started this sweater,
I should have known better.
Time was getting shorter
To take on this custom order

The sizing was off.
The wool not enough
And where were those buttons
I huffed and I puffed

The more I knit
The more I felt choked
It was almost Christmas eve.
Was this a joke.

Some young little lad
Was waiting for this
His perfect Christmas sweater
Eyes filled with bliss.

Could I make it in time
Could I finish the work
Yes, and only because of
my cool friends on Plurk.

Thanks to my plurkie friends who talked me off the ledge with this one. Seriously. Thanks. Mission accomplished – sweater picked up at 10:30opm December 23/08.