Showing posts with label vest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vest. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Secret Santa

I am close to getting my Secret Santa packages out. For the SS gift swap on Rat-Terrier.com I made pajamas and one vest. Need one more vest.

I usually hoard my dragonfly fabric but I was good and used some for this vest :)

I'm also a Secret Santa for two Ratbone fosters and have finished with their gifts because there was no sewing involved - only purchasing. I'll find their photos and bios and post about them another time.

My final projects are to sewing 3 pairs of jammies (one down, two to go) and one vest. I bought a big bag of chicken jerky to go with those so the dog's aren't diappointed, LOL. I just picture the dogs reaction to pajamas would be like a kid getting underware. HA!

We've already received one box of gifts from an exchange but I haven't let them have the toys yet; however, I am not as mean as it sounds because there were homemade dog cookies and I've been giving them one everyday.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

More Made It Myself Monday (on Tuesday)

Got photos of the vests, coats, and purse I made from that Alabama fabric for a internet friend who is crazy about Bama football. The top photo is her grown rat terrier Katie Scarlet giving the evil eye to the new puppy Beaureguard (a.k.a. Beau) because he was wiggling during the photoshot of them in their Bama vests. Little Beau has some growing to do before his fits him!

A beautiful shot of Miss Katie Scarlet (a.k.a. KS) in her new coat. I made a matching scarf but she wanted to include her big sister Dixie (below) by letting her model it. The coat is reversible with the Bama fabric on the other side.

Final shot is KS, the purse I made for their mamma Jan, and little Beau. Katie is teaching Beau how to pose, LOL.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Made It Myself Monday

Do you remember these vests? I made a bunch of vests/harnesses and donated some to an online friend's fundraiser in Wisconsin, sold one, and listed a couple in my etsy store. Well, the pasta vest picture above went to a dog named NOODLES! How cool is that? The best part is that Noodles mamma sent a photo! See below:

Meet Noodles wearing a noodles vest! Isn't she lovely? Her mamma says they had a laugh when a stranger asked her name and the stranger cracked a smile as she realized Noodles was wearing noodles and then asked which came first - the dog or the vest. Noodles's daddy told the stranger that they got the vest and waited 3 years to find a dog named Noodles. LOL!

Monday, October 6, 2008

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


Monday, September 15, 2008

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.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

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!