Handsome!

I had to replace Budda's little coat's zipper, because of course the company who made it used a dress zipper instead of a durable sport zipper. While I was fixing the zipper I thought this plain little coat needed a little jazzing up, so I appliqued "Handsome" one of Budda's nicknames on the middle back with scraps of japanese kawaii fabrics. It makes him look extra handsome!

Recycled Cashmere! Updated Lambie Pics!

Lambchop in her Boyfriend Sweater!

Today I finished Lambchop's sweater. I was worried that the little Chop would go without a warm jumper this season so I gathered some sweaters that I was going to donate and I picked the softest which was an old cashmere sweater. Then I needed some ribbing for the cuffs, neck and belly band so I cut the neck ribbing off the cashmere sweater's neck and the turtleneck and ribbing from another acrylic sweater. Then, I cut the main body pieces out of the green cashmere sweater, sewed all the pieces together and voila! a doggy cashmere jumper! Pics of the Chop in her new duds coming soon!









Baby Budda in a deep Slumber

A place to rest your paws

My little buddy, Budda, loves to hang out where ever I'm stationed in the apartment and one of those places I'm most often in is our studio. I used to have an old bed in there for him (he has a special orthopedic bed in the living room where he sleeps most of the day) but it got gross with his sister peeing on it and it was all lumpy from multiple washings. Ever since then I've been throwing a towel down or a blanket for my baby B in our studio to rest his weary paws while I search for a new bed/mat. Every they sell that's not in a ridiculusly expensive boutique is butt ugly and entirely too large. Finally, last night I got my ass in gear and decided to make him a mat myself, I only have a million yards of fabric and poly fill laying about. I choose a nice soft cotton knit that would wash well and I wanted to make sure it was a dark color so no paw prints would show up immediately. I rummage through my recent free findings and found this cute elephant print. I measured, then cut with my rotary cutter on a cutting mat, folded it in half sewed on three opened sides leaving a 3 inch space for stuffing. Then I stuffed away flatting as I went along making sure it wouldn't be lumpy. Then I sewed with a zig zag stitch evenly spaced lines across the width to keep the poly fill in place making a quilting effect. Voila! I doggy mat!