How to Turn a Large Sock into a Tiny Dog Sweater
Turn a sock into a dog sweater for a tiny pup with a few scissor snips.
Woman seeking donations of canine garb to help warm dogs of homeless
Kelly Tomke is on a crusade.
She wants to help the dogs of the homeless stay warm this winter.
Her campaign started shortly after Thanksgiving when she passed a homeless man sitting with his canine companion near her Golden Hill home.
Ever since, she has been asking folks to donate canine sweater castoffs (or any dog-related items, new or used leashes, collars, blankets, beds, etc.) that she and her beret-wearing
poodle, Bonaparte, can distribute to homeless owners of dogs. She calls her project: “Keep Woofy Warm.”
Tomke posts fliers at dog-friendly businesses downtown, runs weekly ads on Craigslist and distributes the donated items through an East Village dog groomer who works with the homeless.
“People tend to keep their dog’s items after their dog has passed on and wouldn’t mind giving those items to charity,” Tomke says, adding that dogs also grow out of their clothes or just won’t wear them. So far, Tomke, who knits dog sweaters and baby clothes as a hobby and fledgling business, has taken in about 30 sweaters and numerous other items. She sees a need for many more, however. “I’d love to see this effort take off,” Tomke says. She can be contacted at ktomke@gmail.com.
CrazyAuntPurl: The Dog Sweater
That's the Dogasaurus Rex sweater from Patons "Another Dog's Life" pattern booklet.
The sweater was a gift for my parents' cute Pembroke Corgi. His name is Chivas, like the Scotch. (This apple did not fall far from the tree as you can see.) They knew I was making the dog some sort of garment but not the Dogasoaurus Rex! I asked my dad to measure the dog and I followed the pattern exactly and I carefully knitted and stitched and pieced and so on down to the stegasaurus spikes:
But either my knitting was way off or my Dad measured a Rhino because the sweater most decidedly did not fit, which broke my heart because I SLAVED over that thing. I still can't believe I made it, it was big enough for me to wear! And I guess when they first put it on him he was not a willing participant, and did not enjoy being draped in five hundred yards of stockinette:
Feeling like a big old failure, I told my mom to send the stupid sweater back to me and I would find someone with a horse who wanted a handknit dinosaur turtleneck. But my mom never sent it back. This is because she is a magical person who can fix pretty much anything in the garment department. She taught me how to sew when I was very little and throughout my life she had to hem or alter pretty much everything I bought because I am ridiculously short and I would get frustrated that nothing fit off the rack. However, since this was a knitted item, it never occurred to me she could fix it with her mad sewing skills. I figured she was using it as a grill cover or something.
I WAS SO WRONG!
Without telling me, she went to Wal-Mart and found yarn in a matching color and bought herself some yarn needles and my mom, who has never knitted that I know of, somehow someway FIXED the dog sweater and surprised me with it:
Chivas looks so fierce in his altered sweater. It was not your knitting or your Dad's measuring that was wrong. It was Chivas. He - being a corgi - made himself seem bigger. It is good that your Mom has mad sewing skills because nothing fits a corgi off the rack. I have to say Chivas looks a lot like my corgi boy Norbert. Love the sable color.
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