I knitted a few dogs over the Summer for charity - wish I could have made more. My dog Bobbie and I attend the local German Shepherd Dog Obedience and Agility classes which is what inspired this bout of knitting. Two of our Trainers received woollen approximations of their own dogs. I used the patterns from Best in Show by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne. I have to say that these are not easy patterns to follow but even after unpicking and starting again (the Jack Russell had his head knitted backwards the first time and looked like a Nazi experiment!) the final stuffed, eyed, eared and tailed Dog makes it all worthwhile.
a Jack Russell (based on the sweetest little Russell called Zippy, owned by Dave and Trainer Trisha)
a Poodle (made to order for Trainer Kathryn and based on her very bouncy, young Poodle, Olly)
a Dalmatian, a British Bulldog, a Dachshund and a Labrador Retriever (vaguely!) made to raise money for a wonderful local re-homing kennels called Just For Dogs.
Clearly, these dogs are not remotely to scale with eachother. That'll teach me to deviate from the needle size and wool weights in the patterns!
Darling Terry playing Gulliver to the pack of knitted Lilliputian dogs
a Whippet (also made for Trainer Kathryn, based on her beautiful Whippet, Stanley)
