K9 Knitters Greyhound dog coat

Remember way back in March I told you about the K9 Knitters?

Anyway, it's a dog charity that raises money by donations and also by selling dogcoats that knitters donate, I have after all these months finally finished the greyhound dogcoat I started back in March.

I did feel a fair bit of guilt about the fact I said I'd knit this coat and then for months I got distracted by other things and it languished unloved in my WIPs pile.

Well thanks to Ravelry and the Ravelympics I have completed the coat in the WIPs Wrestling event. I'd like to say I enjoyed knitting this coat but I can't. I'm sorry this just was not a nice knit for me.



It's not the pattern, there is nothing wrong with the pattern, it was the yarn I chose. For the past two days I've done nothing (and I mean nothing) but knit this dogcoat. The only problem was that as it grew, it got heavy, very heavy. To the point where it actually hurt to knit, my wrists are killing me and are giving a big sigh of relief at the moment that they no longer have to hold the weight of all that chunky yarn. I did use circular needles to help with the weight but it didn't seem to help.

I do actually look forward to knitting something else for this charity but next time I am definitely going to choose something smaller, much easier on my poor wrists.

After I've given it a quick wash (some of the yarn I used is quite old stash and smells like old stash) I'll get it posted off to Carrie.