Tigger’s successor is Q (aka CRT Qadeer), a shy 3-year-old black hound. This color will be lovely on him, and I have a couple of collars that match it.

08/13/2016: Bound off tonight. Tomorrow I’ll add the buttons and weave ends.

I worked on this, got nearly to the end, and stalled for ages. I was to the point where I needed to sew on the buttons and try it on Tigger again to see how much more length I needed.

But now I’ve lost my Tigger to osteosarcoma (18 March 2016), so the sweater sits there, reproaching me for not having finished it. Of course, there will be another greyhound--maybe very soon--so we’ll see what we can do.

Tigger is a therapy dog in Marietta, Georgia. He doesn’t need a sweater for most therapy events; they’re inside. But he does meet and greets for the local greyhound group (SEGA), and those can be chilly events.

Tigger:

Length: 33” / 84cm
Neck: 15” / 38cm
Chest width: 8” / 20cm
Neck to legs length: 12” / 30cm
Chest circumference: 29.5” / 75cm

I’ve made two of these sweaters so far. I always have problems with the front pulling up across the chest. I’ve added an extra six stitches at the point of the second set of increases, and I’ve positioned the extra stitches so they’ll be in the front. I’ll just have to adjust how I place the markers for the front gusset.

I’ve decided not to rib the entire body because it makes the sweater very snug, and it pulls up along the back sides of the dog. So I’ve done stockinette, with a 9-stitch panel of moss stitch. (I wanted something to mark the center so I can keep the length of the sweater well-centered on the dog.) I totally modified how I ended the sweater. I have some ideas on how to improve on this ending. I’ve bought some yarn to knit a new sweater for my girl, and I’ll keep the extra stitches on the chest and the stockinette with a different pattern in the center, and then adjust the ending.