One More Dog Vest

I finished the last vest tonight for an online friend's fund raiser. Since her event will be about a week before Halloween, she chose a Halloween fabric. Initially I was just going to use the orange belt web for the D ring but it looked so orange! So I sewed a gingham ribbon down the center to break up that orange. It might have been OK orange but anyone who knows me well knows that I have an aversion to the color orange. Sorry for the lousy photography - it's just me! LOL

Made It Myself Monday

I now have all 8 vests sewn together but had to stop for more supplies. I should have them completed, velcro and all, by the end of the week. And, with timely similarity, I happened to find a bag of fabric I purchased a year ago last October when I first made dog harness/vests. So now I have some Halloween, chili peppers, Americana, and a few more designs for making more! We'll see - I may just get sick of them and put them aside for another two years!

I've had this dog fabric awhile having brought it from Kodiak I believe. Never found the right use for it but this is perfect, don't ya think? The wine fabric is a very nice fabric- beautiful colors, a nice hand, and great to work with.

These are my last two of this group. Six are oging to an online friend for a fundraiser and I guess I will list the last two in my new Etsy store. Wish me luck for the motivation to continue with at least a few more because I've made another committment, LOL.

Oh! I almost forgot. We had a little nail clipping accident last night that got pretty scary. It took us over a half hour to get Daisey's nail to stop bleeding. I was a little freaked out. Jerry and I worked on her with one of those stick things for when you cut yourself shaving. I held her in my arms, rubbed her belly and whispered quietly to her to keep her calm while he worked the paw. She was falling asleep through the ordeal! Then it hit me that perhaps she was passing out or weak from the loss of blood! She is so my baby and I worry about her needlessly. At one point I thought of going out at 10pm at night to get her a steak to avoid anemia. I even went as far as to figure out that I could one at the Super Target or order from Sam Seltzer's Steakhouse which isn't far from my house. I was thinking of ordering a big Porterhouse, extra rare, to go. I'm a nervous mommy I guess.

I Didn't Get Dressed Today

Before you think of me as a lazy slob today, I'll show you what I did instead. I was just too busy to get dressed! By the time I took a break, it was almost time to get my jammies on again.

I constructed 4 dog vests today. I still need to addt he velcro closures but am waiting until I have all the vests done so that I can place the velcro to create different sizes. The top two vests are smaller and made from a beatiful fish print (I wish you could see the real color) and one of a pasta fabric. I thought novelty fabric would be eye catching at the fund raiser.
The next two are black backgrounds - one with golf equipment and one with Jelly Bellys. How fun is that? Black background, black thread, and black velcro makes for a challenge at times. I have 3 or 4 more vests to do. I will show them later. (I made more than needed for the fundraiser so she could choose the best ones).

Then, when I got my fill of sewing, I started the photo editing and transfer for future quilt blocks. The one above is my Daisey. She's so sweet!

This is a dog being publicized through Ratbone. His name is Smokey. I thought he was quite handsome.

Finally this is Teddy. How sweet is that face? Poor fella probably didn't expect to find himself homeless.

Sonic & Sydney

It's late and I need to get to bed but the doggie harness vests I made and then mailed from Florida on Monday actually got to Wisconsin today. Good job post office! Here's photos of Sydney & Sonic in their new duds.

This girl's name is Sydney and she is a Jack Russell Terrier. She is wearing her new red harness vest that I made for her from the fabric purchased in Austria. Doesn't she look divine in red?

Meet Sonic. He is a male Rat Terrier and from the looks of this photo I will be making him a new vest in a size larger. Sorry he can't wear the cool fabric from Bali but I have something else in mind that will be just as fun!

Made It Myself Monday

My pup-pups are only modeling. I made these harness vests for someone on Rat-Terrier.com.
Here's Miss Daisey wearing a bright red traaditional Austrian cotton print. My buddy Herta T. from Kodiak brought me some high-quality cottons from one of her trips to Austria.

Eddie is sporting a harness vest as well only this was made from a cotton batik that coworker Dana brought back from a trip to Bali.

As you can see my friends travel and I reap the benefits, LOL!