I spent many hours this weekend at the sewing machine, ploughing through a backlog of repairs and taking-up of too-long trousers. I did cheer myself up by using a scrap of stripy cotton to make Jake a bandana, which he wore all day on Sunday, in and out.
“How can you dress your dog in clothes?” said a colleague to me recently. Well, Jake is practically bald on his underside – a throwback to his sighthound ancestry – and if we’re waiting for a bus on a winter’s day, or heading out on a cold late night constitutional, I don’t like to see him shivering. As for bandanas – I used to think they were purely for ornament, but the owner of a Dobermann friend of Jake’s always dresses her dog in a bandana because it makes strangers less inclined to judge him as a threatening devil dog. Based on the reaction to Jake’s neckerchief when we were out and about, I can see that works.
So the theme of this weekend is obviously needlecraft, as this evening I found (via Lurcherlink’s Easter fundraising auction) the K9Knitters. They knit luvverly dog coats and jumpers and the proceeds go to rescue dogs. My knitting isn’t up to much so I’m happy to cough up to get Jakey his humiliating jumpers oops, adorable knitwear.
Labels: Outfits
pacco a bald underside too...but is alright, coz weather is pretty warm here...
i used to wear her a red bandana whenever we go out....but now, she going naked most of the time...coz i'm being lazy