{"id":21098,"date":"2020-12-29T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=21098"},"modified":"2020-12-29T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:28:43","slug":"more-knitted-dog-sweaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/more-knitted-dog-sweaters\/","title":{"rendered":"more knitted dog sweaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first sweater<\/a> I knitted for Maggie on my knitting machine has been a huge success – the only real problem is that, with 3 snowy walks each day, I need at least 3 sweaters in rotation so I always have one dry and ready for her next walk!<\/p>\n

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\nI vaguely remember these days before snow season began!<\/em><\/p>\n

Next, I’d planned to knit a striped sweater for her, but I decided to refine the basic pattern (and get some more machine knitting practice) before getting too fancy.<\/p>\n

Dog Sweater #2 (Lavender)<\/h2>\n

Did you know that the tummy cut-out on dog sweaters is only necessary for male<\/strong> dogs?! I didn’t, and poor Maggie’s tummy was always getting covered in mud or snow in her first sweater, so no more tummy cut-outs in future.<\/p>\n

I also decided to make the back slightly longer, to see if it would help keep the sweater from being pushed up by her tail.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s so comfy she fell asleep during the test fit!<\/em><\/p>\n

Other than that, I followed my original pattern exactly (apart from the yarn colour):<\/p>\n

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The new sweater (right) is 3″ longer on the tummy and 1″ longer on the back than the original sweater (left).<\/p>\n

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And now for the moment of truth:<\/p>\n

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So cute! The back length is better, and the tummy coverage is just right.<\/p>\n

You may notice that she looks a little stockier now – that’s because she wears a harness under her sweaters these days (ever since the scary moment that she slipped her collar and ran straight into the road…).<\/p>\n

The leash attachment point on the harness is further down her back than with the collar. Between that and the extra bulk from the harness, the neck opening is now a little low-cut.<\/p>\n

To combat that I decided I should add an extra 1.5″ at the neck (and one more inch at the tail end) for the next version…<\/p>\n

Sweater #3 (Greys)<\/h2>\n

The yarn I’d used for the first two sweaters (Bernat Satin) is very soft and I thought a firmer acrylic might be a) more hard-wearing and b) less likely to ride up Maggie’s back when she’s walking. So I raided my stash and found a couple of skeins of Hobby Lobby ‘I Love this Yarn!’ acrylic.<\/p>\n

I made the length modifications I’d decided on above, and, as Maggie is a stylish pup, I thought I’d try knitting all the ribbing in a lighter shade of the main mid-grey colour:<\/p>\n

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I crocheted very carefully around the leash slit, to make sure it looked neat even in the contrast colour. I think the result is super stylish:<\/p>\n

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Sorry the colour balance is so far off between the pics above and below – it is the same sweater, I promise!<\/em><\/p>\n

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I think we have a winner with this design! The fit is great now, with more coverage at the front and full coverage at the back.<\/p>\n

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The fabric feels resilient, and I’m sure it’s going to wear better than the Satin yarn sweaters (which are already a little fluffy around the cuffs).<\/p>\n

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And look how smart that ribbing and leash slit are! I’m really happy with how this turned out.<\/p>\n

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Is this it for tweaking the design? Well, no, I think I might also try adding an extra inch to the legs next time to give her more protection in deep snow.<\/p>\n

But that striped sweater is still on the cards too! It might just need to wait until the lockdown ends so I can go yarn shopping…<\/p>\n

It’s so rewarding to knit functional clothes for Maggie that are much better fitting than anything I could buy from a pet store. And she gets so many compliments when we’re out walking these days \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first sweater I knitted for Maggie on my knitting machine has been a huge success – the only real problem is that, with 3 snowy walks each day, I need at least 3 sweaters in rotation so I always have one dry and ready for her next walk! I vaguely remember these days before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}