To knit clothes for a favourite dog – business not so difficult. You get excellent mood from the process of knitting, and the delight and affection of people around at the sight of beautifully dressed dog will reward your works! If you though once knitted clothes for a doll or the child, then to knit a sweater for a dog will not make for you special work.
Instruction
1. For a start take measurements of the pet. Put before yourself a dog and measure the back length, chest and a grasp of a waist. It will be the main sizes for knitting. Correctly to measure back length, put a collar on a dog and measure length from it to the line of a grasp of a waist. Measure a grasp of a waist before hinder legs, and chest – under lobbies.
2. Proceeding from the received three sizes, construct a pattern on paper. Check whether values of chest and a waist coincide with a pattern? If it is necessary, change a pattern on width. Remember that patterns for dogs and boughs will be various on length. For dogs displace a measure of a grasp of a waist a little forward (owing to physiological features).
3. Now start knitting. Begin better with an elastic band. Gain the quantity of loops equal to a waist grasp. Further, add on both sides of a loop so that by then when you approach sleeves, the quantity of loops was equal to chest. Measure distance between paws of a dog. Do not forget to leave necessary quantity of loops in the center of knitting. Then close loops on both sides. It is necessary that the cut where you will fix sleeves turned out. Knit further on width of forepaws. Further add so many loops how many you closed to a sleeve vyvyazyvaniye.
4. Continue to knit a sweater mouth, at the same time close on several loops in each row symmetrically concerning the center. If there is desire, then can knit a sweater by length to a tail, having completely closed a back of a dog.
5. In the prepared openings for paws gather on edge of a loop connect sleeves of the necessary length. On edge of a back gather loops and on the one hand connect by an elastic band a level. On it sew buttons. On the other hand connect the same level, but already with loops. The sweater for your chetverony favourite is ready! Dress it on a dog and go to walk, now you can walk much longer than usual time, without being afraid that your pet will freeze.