I have my first finished object for 2024!
I ripped out the Botanical Yoke Dog sweater on Christmas Eve and immediately cast-on in a smaller size. I also had to do some math to make it shorter while still getting the correct stitch count for the increases in the body. (My gauge was a teensie weensie bit off.)
This is the small size on Pepper. The first one was a medium. I wanted to see how high the neck was before knitting an additional 15 rows as the pattern instructed. It would have gone up to her ears had I kept going!
I think I knocked off about 4-5 inches from the length of the body. Huge difference. The original one is on the left and the new. improved one on the right.
The original (larger) one would be easier to get on her but I’m not ripping this out and reknitting it again. I took good notes so if this one gets damaged or has a hole I can’t repair (I’m looking at you Pepper!), I can knit another one that will fit without reinventing the pattern.
Pepper’s almost 15 months old and I don’t think she’ll grow much longer.
Next on the needles: slippers for my sister-in-law.
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That really is a very smart sweater for Pepper!
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Thank you. She seems to like it.
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Pepper looks really great in her new sweater. Its a beautiful co!or for her.
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Red is her favorite color. 🤭
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It looks great. The color is perfect. Our last dog was Pepper. I have to wait till we stop wintering in Florida to get another dog. Fortunately I get to enjoy my son’s until they move out of our northern home. Hmm, or I could just get a dog and tell my husband I can’t go to Florida – now that sounds like a plan!
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What kind of dog was your Pepper? Do you not like wintering in Florida?
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Pepper was a mix – bout 70 lbs. Got him from a rescue – I only do pound/rescue dogs. I don’t like wintering in Florida at the cost of no dog. It has been pretty “chilly” in Naples so I have been staying inside all day because it’s too cold to sit on our patio (it gets no direct sunlight). I might as well sit inside back in Ohio.
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Hello, Pepper!!! That is a very stylish sweater you have on.
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She ❤️ it. No matter what she says.
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Beautiful! And Pepper looks like, “who, me? Rip a hole? Never!” 🙂
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Oh yes! Such innocence
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