FO Dog Sweater #2

I know that I finished the two dog sweaters about a month ago, but I just got a picture of the second one on the dog today. I was very nervous about this sweater and how it would fit. This is mostly because I used a thicker yarn which meant I had to modify the pattern to accomodate my yarn choice.

FO Striped Dog Sweater

Although I have knit this very pattern using these very colors, this one was a struggle. When I got the order for this poor little pug with some sort of allergy or disease that makes him lose his hair, I was willing to do just about anything she asked to help him out. So sleeves was what I needed to tackle.

WIP Dog Sweater #1

I got an order last week for 2 custom dog sweaters. I started knitting the first one using the same striping I used in the sweaters I sent to Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain in Brooklyn, New York last year.

Adaly Myles Place is 1!

Today is Adaly Myles Place's 1st birthday! It seems like just yesterday that I was talking through the set up of my Etsy shop with Allyson. I started with a few photography props, but have grown to over 30 products available.

Photo courtesy of K Newborn Photography

Not just for Paris

In my journey through knitting, I have been privileged to work with great clients and given the opportunity to knit some pretty cool things. Allyson has thrown some pretty great knitting jobs at me fo requests that she has gotten that she is just too busy to do herself. Let's face it, knitting takes a lot of time and when you are coordinating magazines, books, and 2 different websites, you are bound to be busy. Luckily for me, Allyson gets a lot of requests and she asks me to knit some of them up. The first project she threw my way was a request for dog sweaters.

Orange sweater on Otis

I know you may be thinking "how silly to purchase a handknit sweater for a dog" but it happens quite a bit. My good friend, Miki, actually bought a dog sweater for her pitbull who has some sort of disorder where he has trouble keeping warm. It made sense to me and opened my eyes to the fact that it isn't just Paris Hilton dressing their dogs in sweaters.

Charlie

Anyway, so this request for knitted dog sweaters came from a woman in Brooklyn, New York at a boutique called the Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain. I knit up 4 different sweaters using bright colors and stripes. I made them in a uniform, small size and sent them off.

Striped sweaters for Brooklyn

Gia from Brooklyn was pleased with the results but wanted something that would stand out. She wanted the sweaters to be different from everywhere else, and just stripes were not going to cut it. I then designed 3 more different sweaters. There was one with a Mohawk down the center of the back, one with a single stripe down the center ot the back, and one with a trelis cable pattern.