My Dog is afraid of my crochet hooks.

I consider my first post a win.  It was super yummy and easy to do.  However, Pinterest has some projects on it, that I consider sooooooo cuuuuuuttttteee.  Of course when I attempt them, they come out as something else all together.

This post is about one fail in particular.

My poor, poor schnauzer Katie.  Lady Katherine.  If you ever met her, you'd say, "Wow, she is the cutest, sweetest thing I've ever met."  She also is my model.  Poor, poor baby.  One cold evening I was rubbing her fluffy ears and thought, oh wow her ears are so cold.  So I set upon a quest to find a dog hat.  I had recently completed some super cute beanies for my friends and family.

Gretchen's Hat

Mimosa's Christmas Morning

Grandma O's Hat

 I loved making these hats.  The pattern was really easy and I could turn out one hat a night.   How hard could it be to make a dog hat.  Am I Right?  Oh...how wrong I was. 

Now if you are anything like me you can imagine how long this process took me.  I entered "dog hat" into the search spot.  And wow is there tons of pins on dog hats.  So I modified my search to "crochet dog hat" and then again to "crochet dog hat easy pattern."  Should have been easy, but what I found was a bunch of hats with ears cut out.  This would not do for my sweet baby Katie.  After approximately 3 hours of dog hat looking (I told you I have a problem....I admitted it, That's the first part of solving a problem....DON'T JUDGE!!!!) I found this...




*SQUEEEEEEEE*  I can't take the cuteness



"OMG How cute is this?!?"  I thought.  And I can totally make this.  But it's now almost 23:00 hours.  And I don't have the same yarn it calls for, sooooo I'll just improvise.   I believe this is where I went wrong.  So instead of the soft baby yarn this pattern called for, I used my super bulky soft yarn that I had left over from an old project.  This couldn't be too bad right?  Poor, poor baby Katie.  I measured her head and started crocheting.  It really was a quick project.  It took me less than 30 minutes.  Basically you chain as many as it takes to go around your dogs head.  Then you join the ends together and crochet around...and around...and around until you think.... Hey this will cover her ears.  Which is what I did.  Another problem I had was figuring out how to join the ears to the hat.  I sewed them on, but that is neither here nor there.  Because this is what I came up with...

You can almost feel her shame.

 Poor, Poor Baby Katie.  It looks kinda cute.  However, she felt so bad.  She kept shaking the hat and because of the HUGE ears on it, it would turn.  So instead of cute teddy bear ears, she had balls.  Balls hanging from her chin.

Please don't look at me.

We kept trying to fix them, and she'd leave the hat on her head for a minute or so, and then she'd shake.  Balls....on her chin.  Finally we felt so sorry for her we took them off. 

I feel confident enough to say, that was a pretty bad fail.  She still comes near me and even takes treats from me again.  Good girl Katie.

*No animals were physically or verbally harmed in the making of this blog.  But I'm fairly certain she will hold the scars of balls on her chin forever.


Hope you enjoyed my fail, even if Katie did not.

I like to end things on a quote.  I love quotes.  Sometimes I'll write something amazing (Haha) or I'll share quotes that make me smile. 

"I'll never be perfect, but I can be better" -Unknown

 

Hopefully I've made you smile

 

Love Lizzo