EMBELLISHED & FELTED PET COLLAR
Right before Christmas I found these amazing porcelain skully beads at Savannah’s Paris Market and just had to find something to do with them. I bought a couple for April and me to string on silk cords and wear around our necks, but I really had Willie’s neck in mind. How could I make my little man a collar to match his personality? Thus was created “Bad to the Bone”. I couldn’t leave out sweet Chopsticks either, so a trip to JoAnn’s later I had the ingredients for “Sweet Hearts”, a collar for my camera-shy but precious older pup.
This week I worked up these two cute collars for my babies, and thought you might want to do the same for your kids ~ pups or kits. There’s a free pdf download somewhere on this page (they make them hard to find here at WordPress). The collars are easy to put together, and there are endless combinations of yarn, fabric and bibbity-bobbities to put around their necks. They wear just like real collars, but bear in mind I walk my dogs on harnesses, so the collars are more for identification and fashion. If your dog’s collar gets a real push-me pull-you workout at the end of a leash, I would suggest stitching your felt creation to a solid webbed collar and skipping the lining.
And the dogs will wear them. Honestly, when it came time to write this tutorial and I needed the collars for measurements and such, the kids were positively bereft at having to give them up. Ain’t parenthood grand?
Kay!
These collars are GREAT!
I want to make one RIGHT NOW. I might have to start.
It reminds me of that one you did for the natural flea repellent?
Can you remind me where you found that?
-kts
Yes, that pattern came from a book I have. I will bring it to show you on Tuesday night. It’s a very clever pattern where after you knit it it opens up at the end and you can drop in a mixture of herbs for natural flea repellent. It worked pretty well for my dogs! I think the book is someting like “Knitting for Dogs,” by Judith L. Schwartz.
Found your blogs over at ravelry, and love these patterns. I’m going to have to try them out!
hey Savannah, i love the yorkies sweater they r so sweet. Im gonna make one to my lil man (also a yorkie). you r such an inspiration tks.
Thank you for the Little black dress w/ pearls. My daughter surprised me with a little 2 pound dog for Christmas and here in Michigan it has been freezing since november so this will come in handy. Now I am going to Etsy to see your other patterns.
Thank you
judy ann