NEW PUPPY,NEW YEAR'S DAY GIFT!!

PUPPY,PUPPY,PUPPY,PUPPY,new puppy is here!!!!! Marie gave us Taco Friday to keep. Sat. All I did was play w/ my dogs!!! @ 1 time I had all 3 in my recliner asleep w/ me. George has his parking space on the left side of the recliner along side of me. He doesn't like the cold so he'll hide under my lap quilt to get warm. Fluffy usually ends up @ the bottom of my feet. Taco was curled up in a ball. He liked being up close to my heart.He even slept in my lap while trying to work on his quilted dog coat. He curled up in my lap & rested his head on my left arm while checking my mail online.
He got a couple of nicknames,Radar, his ears stick up like radar. Plus he cried alot the 1st night we had him. So I called him Squeaky last nite.
He's a face licker. He really loves to lick Allen's face,quite insistent
Bought moist dog food chunks for him to get him started Wore my red cape @ 3 am to put all the dogs out to the bathroom.He's small enough he could go thru the post @ the gate.He's sleeping in the dog kennel I cleaned out the other nite w/ a rag w/ the scent from his mom on it.
Trying to tailor the 2 quilted coats I made for them. Rudy is the tineset one of the litter. Have to leep trimming it back to fit him. The machine keeps coming unthreaded, & my hands hurt too bad to keep rethreading it.GRRRR!!I want to finish up these dog coats & I'm getting FRUSTRATED when mechanical things don't work!!!

I DID IT!!!!

My neighbor Marie has a 2 mo. old litter of 5 chihuahua pups. She couldn't find any puppy coats small enough for them. It's been getting down to 26F the last couple nights. We have snow on the ground this morning. It's not to get above 40 F today.I love watching them play outside,they are so adorable. Sat.nite when I was falling asleep,an idea came to me on how to make them. I asked Marie to bring Taco over Sun. for me to measure him. I figured out I could make a flap type jacket. I took a flat pattern class @ Ricks College when younger. I cut a pattern out of brown paper bag. The 1st piece I cut out wasn't wide enough, I put it aside. I took a cheaper piece of fabric to cut out my 2nd proptype after adjusting my pattern.
Mon.after cooking supper, I went into my room. I stay stiched the proype top. I was waiting for Marie to come back from an errand to see where to attach the velco strap underneath. I didn't want the coat to get wet when the boy pups peed. My "I know I can do this" got to me. I want to see if I could really do this. I wondered if my machine would fit all all 3 layers would feed it thru. This summer it wouldn't feed the flannel thru when I tried to machine quilt my lap quilt. Marie had given me a fleece cover to use for the back piece. I had l/over quilt batting. Heidi,my dau. had sent me some sewing scraps. Rudi is the tinest of the litter. He needed a coat 1st. I decided I use the 1st piece @ add a small strip on the side to make it a little wider. I was really amazed that it took the fleece w/ the quilt batting on it.So I tried stiching all three together. It worked!!!I sewed the velcro on for the strap.
Later Marie came over w/ Rudy & Taco. We kept having to trim the fabric down for him,he is so TINY!! He is all wrapped up in it. The protype for Taco worked. I went into the room to sew the 2nd piece of velcro on for Rudy's coat so he could have it Mon. nite. I thought hmm! I better cut out Taco's coat while my hands will let me hold a pair of scissors . This storm may really knock me out Tue. I cut out & sewd his jacket in an hour! I gave them both to Marie @ 7:30. We see how the coat fits on him thru the nite. I have 2 female coats & 1 more male coat to make. Marie is going to help cut them out for me. Taco & Rudy got green sewn stripe fabric. I have enough apple fabric for 2 girl puppies & Mamma's coat. The last male will get a blue plaid coat. The fleece is a bright green color.
My flat pattern teacher @ Ricks would be pleased on my inguenty. Necessity is the mother of invention.I'm so tickled I pulled this of!!