{"id":1443,"date":"2011-12-05T22:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T21:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2011-12-05T22:33:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T21:33:39","slug":"woof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"woof"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may know that my mother in law recently acquired a small dog, Poppy. She’s white & fluffy and very puppy like. Unfortunately, she gets cold when she goes outside.<\/p>\n

So I offered, in a moment of “there’s all the time in the world”, to knit her a doggy coat.<\/p>\n

A quick ravelry search turned up a few gems, but given that I wasn’t confident of Poppy’s size, other than by using her breed (Bishon Frise or something) as a guide (which, handily, one of the patterns does!), I didn’t want to get too ambitious on the first one. See? It’s a slippery slope: I offer to knit one and already in my head she has a wardrobe full. I’m loving this barcode coat<\/a> (you put your phone number along the side – 101 dalmations re-enactment detected!) (or, indeed, an open invitation to stalkers) but a bit much effort if it turns out too small and it’s only available within a book with many other patterns I don’t want (sorry!).<\/p>\n

So I went with a simple Berocco designs option, “Buster<\/a>“. Quite honestly, the dog shown couldn’t be more different to Poppy. However, it’s generic and given the pattern’s pedigree (see what I did there?!), I thought it would be a winner. The slight shame is that the shoulder seams seemed a bit mis-matched, so there was some cludging and if it ever fits snugly, it will be embarrassingly lumpy.<\/p>\n

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So, I launched into knitting it (in somewhat of a hurry as MIL indicated they were waiting for it – oops!) using the flecked aran (easy wash plastic) yarn I had left over from Lily’s Ruby poncho. Shortly before it was done I saw Poppy and began to worry that it wasn’t going to be big enough.<\/p>\n

Sure, it was finished and looking lovely, but she’s surprisingly stocky for a small fluffy white dog, and snugness with puppy’s generally means “tricky to get on”.<\/p>\n

Lily modelled it for me, and it turns out that if it fits Lily’s head like this:<\/p>\n

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…then after a slight struggle…<\/p>\n

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…it actually fits rather well!<\/p>\n

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And awww isn’t she a cutie? I’m not doing badly for a non-dog person I like to think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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