Frenchies are cute, cuddly, and woolly??
Get out your needles and remember how to knit and purl, or just have fun checking out an unusual slant to a time-honored craft – Knitting AND French Bulldogs!
Knit and wear a French Bulldog sweater. Visit this blog to see a sample worked up and get links to the pattern. Portraits of Dogs in Knitting
Or, if your Japanese is good, crochet and play with a French Bulldog toy. Click on the image or link below and scroll down the page to see images from inside the book. If you are an excellent crocheter, you might be able to just go by the diagrams.
Japanese Crochet book
The book is also available on Amazon, the Japanese version.
If you want to get really, really crazy, knit using your Frenchie’s fur as the yarn. Knitting with dog fur experienced a surge during WWII when knitting materials were scarce and continues today as a hobby. Page through the book Knitting with Dog Hair. They do warn Frenchies provide a “poor harvest.” Maybe aim for a scarf and not a sweater…
Don’t have a spinning wheel? Pay someone to spin that hair into yarn. Search for “spinning dog hair” and you will get several hits.
While no French Bulldog garments are represented, you might enjoy seeing some final dog yarn products.
Hum…makes one look a little differently at those fur balls under, and on, the couch.
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