I’m a big fan of all things fall, and especially looking forward to this season! This is my first year designing so it’s been really neat to come up with fun Halloween and fall themed designs and turn them into patterns. Right now, I have three in the works, and a couple of neat things… Continue reading It’s Spooky Season, and I’m Ready!

I know it’s not actually that new blog themes are exhausting, they fun! It isn’t even that choosing a new blog theme is exhausting, I find that fun too! My issue with choosing a new blog theme is once I find one I love, and I click around my website in my preview mode, I’ll… Continue reading New Blog Themes Are Exhausting.

Buy Life is a Highway Sweater – $5 (buy now link) Pattern Notes:This sweater has a really simple (and seamless) construction that results in a well fitting and adorable dog sweater! It is knit top down, in the round with chest increases in the front. The armholes are the best part! They are first knit flat… Continue reading Life is a Highway Sweater

Months ago, I dreamed up a fun (and maybe slightly crazy) idea for a Halloween costume design. The weather around here is kind of hit or miss in October. Some years it’s absolutely freezing and you have to wear a jacket or a big sweater, and some years it’s pretty warm and you can get… Continue reading A Onesie – With a Hood!

When I first made the leap from designing sweaters for Nacho to match whatever I was making for myself at the time to actually designing dog sweaters for the purpose of releasing them so other people could make them for their dogs, I thought my biggest challenge was going to be the actual designing part.… Continue reading New Designs, new tests and new ideas!

In my quest to design a beginner friendly dog sweater construction, I’ve worked on three that have been really fun, but only really one that is suitable for actual beginners. Then this week, I started playing around with a new method and I think I nailed it. I am sure I am not the first… Continue reading New dog sweater construction underway!