This is Margo, the Grande Dame of our Italian Greyhound pack (totalling 2 members). She's modeling her new winter coat! It's light weight but warm, water repellant, and light reflective. The outer layer of fabric is a beautiful silver nylon, and there is light reflective piping running from her shoulders to the top of her rump, from her chest to her thighs, and around the back end of the coat from one side of the groin tuck to the other.
The coat is lined in a medium-weight flannel in a blue and grey tartan. The snaps are hammered on, as opposed to being sewn on. On previous coats, I used the sew-on variety, but the thread would eventually get cut by the sides of the metal snaps.
And this is Sophie, our other Iggy, modeling her identical coat. We took this picture in the garage to show the light reflective qualities of the piping. I would call this coat a HUGE success!
Now that it's Daylight Savings Time, it's almost dark when I get home from work. Now that these coats are finished, I'll feel a lot more comfortable walking our girls at night. They're such low-riders that most people don't notice them even during the day...
And just in case you were wondering, I made the pattern myself, by holding a sheet of brown craft paper up to my dog while she was standing, and tracing a general outline along her spine, down her back legs, across her under carriage, and back up along the chest and shoulders. We adopted Margo about 6 years ago, and over the years, that rough sketch has been transferred into a pattern and refined as I have made several coats for her. It's now a perfect fit, including darts at the rump to keep the coat tucked down around the body to keep more warmth in.
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