Nap time?

It's cold here. Not like negative degrees cold, but still pretty cold. I live in the part of the Midwest where the weather is pretty bipolar. Saturday it was in the 50's now it's in the 20-30's. Sure we've experienced worse swings, but my body aches, I've had a headache for about a week. I just want to nap.

So even though I planned today to be the day I sew and work on my knits class finally on craftsy. My fabric is even pre-washed and I'm on lesson three. Right now the house is picked up, the dogs are bathed, the laundry done and I've got two very toasty and even good smelling puppies curled up on either side of me napping. I think I'm going to give in and join them - at least for a bit.

Olivers New Harness

I saw this tutorial for a dog harness at Sew Mama Sew. I am one of those weird people that take their dog to daycare and I'm always looking for ways to improve the car ride. The daycare workers and my husband have a lot of trouble figuring out how to attach the side straps to Oliver's current harness and this new one completely eliminates that step so I thought I'd give it a shot.

I decided to make a matching bow tie out of scraps. It attaches to his collar with Velcro. Since this is for a car seat, I did a lot of re-enforcing. I serged the lining to the top piece, mostly to use my new serger. I'd never sewn curves on a serger before, definitely going to have to work on that skill. I also had a lot of trouble with the binding. I should have cut bias binding and I bet that would have made it easier. I also used some really cheap fabric from Joanns. If you look closely, you can see the mistakes, but it's a dog harness so I don't care. I prefer to make something functional while learning rather than scraps.

Here's the finished product: