Knitting Friendszy

We have 3 small-ish dogs in our house. One of them loves to wear clothes, one other didn't have any, and the smallest runs and hides when you say "sweater"... haha  So my dog Flint, who is a Coton de Tulear, loves his clothes. The original sweater I made for our Chihuahua Alonso, was too big, so Flint inherited it. When I was at Petco a couple of weeks I spotted a sweater that I wanted for Alonso. Again.... he's too big for the small stuff and too small for the medium sizes, so Flint inherited the sweater and hasn't taken it off since. My daughter has the Chihuahua, and a mutt. The Chihuahua's name is Alonso as I mentioned above, and the mutt is Charlie.  Well Charlie has never had any clothing other than the jacket he wears outside in the winter. My daughter didn't think it was fair that Charlie didn't have a sweater. So after listening to her complain about it, I decided to make one for him. I couldn't really find a pattern that I liked,

Back in December I tried out some stranded colorwork, a Snowflake patterned hat by  LaVon Murphy .   That post is here   if you would like to see it.  In case you haven't heard, Maine has been hit with successive snowstorms since Thanksgiving. We have so much snow, it's getting hard to find places to put it all! I really wanted to do another of the snowflake hats, since I was so in love with the blue and white one from my previous post. Fortunately for me, my daughter decided that she would like one. We went into my yarn stash and she picked out her colors. The result is below. I love how it came out! I used a basic worsted for each of the colors. The top is a little pointy, and you can either block it to sit flatter, or put a tassle or pom-pom on the top. My daughter liked hers plain.  The Simple Snowflake  pattern   can be found on Ravelry. You do need an account to get the pattern from there, but it's free, and it's a fun place to meet other knitte