IT'S FRIDAY FUN DAY! Skull Dog Collar Crochet Pattern | Posh Pooch Designs

 IT'S FRIDAY FUN DAY!

Skull Dog Collar 

Crochet Pattern 

By Sara Sach of  Posh Pooch Designs

I designed this simple Crochet pattern

back in 2010 For Maximo. 

I think he looks adorable in this Collar.

Rosie Looks pretty cute also.

I decided it was time to retest, and update this 

Crochet Pattern.

And record a brand new video, also.

It's easy to stitch up, and looks so cute in many different colors. You can even make it into a headband or collar for

 you to match your pet. It makes a fun a simple Halloween 

for photos, also.

See The Video On My Crochet Youtube

 Channel At This LINK

Skull Dog Collar Crochet Pattern

Remember To Add This Crochet Pattern To Your Raverly Favorites

Skill: Easy
 
Materials:
 
Hook: H/ 5.00 MM
Yarn – Med (4) Acrylic -I Love This Yarn, C1 - Black, C2 - white
Yarn Needle
 
Stitches:
Chain (ch)
Single Crochet (sc)
Slip Stitch (slst)
Half Double Crochet (hdc)
Picot Stitch (pcst) ch3, slst in the top of the st
 
Size -   9 inch collar
(3 ch = 1 inch if you want to make longer or shorter)
 
R: 1 – Ch 31, Hdc in the 2^nd ch from the hook, 

and in each ch, turn, ch 1 (30 hdc)

 
R: 2 - hdc in each hdc, turn ch 1 (30 hdc)

R: 3 - We will be working completely around both sides of the

 collar with out stopping at the ends  

 1 hdc in the first 3 hdc, pcst on the 3rd hdc, 

*1 hdc in the next 3 sts, pcst on the 3rd hdc*  

repeat from * to across, 3 hdc, 

3 hdc, picot on the end of the collar,

Repeat From * to * on the bottom of the collar, 

3 hdc, picot on the end of the collar,

Tie off and weave in your ends.  

 

Ties:
Join yarn to the hdc at the center of the end of collar, ch 25, 

1 dc in the end of ch, slst back down and join to sc, tie off.  

Repeat on other end of collar for the second tie.

Skull Applique: With White yarn
 
R: 1 - Ch 4, sc in 2nd ch from the hook, sc in next two chs, turn, ch1 (3sc)
 
R: 2 - Sc in each sc, turn, (3sc)

R: 3 - Ch 1, 2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st, 2 sc in last st, turn, ch1 (5 sc)
 
R: 4 - sc in each st, turn, ch1
 
R: 5 -  Sctog the first 2 sc, sc in next  sc, Sctog the last  2 sc,  tie off ( 3sc)

leave a12 in tail of yarn for sewing skull on to collar.

 
With Black Yarn, embroider the mouth and eyes on the skull.

 Place in the center of the dog collar and sew on with matching yarn.

Let's Take The Dogs To The Park Crochet Pattern Collection | Posh Pooch Designs

Let's Take The Dogs To The Park

Free Crochet Pattern Collection

  By Sara Sach of  Posh Pooch Designs

The Weather is finally nice and I want to take my Dogs,

 Maximo and Rosie, to the park.

I was packing their things to go and thought,

"This Would make a great Free Crochet Pattern Round Up".

Here are all the things you need to go to the park, 

and even a mesh bag to put them in.

 The Things, not the Dogs! 

Click The Name of the Crochet Pattern you wish to see.

It is the link to where the Free crochet Pattern is located.

1. Dog Car Blanket

2. Frisbee Dog Toy 

3. Dog Woobie

4. Cotton Slide On Bandanna

5. Clip On Dog Poo Bags

6. Reflective Dog Collars

7. Cord Dog Collar and Leash

8. Mesh Bag

9. Dog Tug Toy

10. And Don't For get Your Water bottle!

Please Pop over To My 

Youtube Crochet Channel At This LINK

You will find Lot's of Crochet Pattern Tutorials, Live Videos, Give Aways

And 

Lots 

of 

Yarnie

 Fun!

Two New Chihuahuas From Parker Country Market | Posh Pooch Designs

Ha! Ha!

 That's Maximo and Rosie Bell,

I have that big Square Rock

 in my front yarn and I love it.

I thought it looked empty and 

so I went in search of a Statue.

Meet Maximo Jr. and Rosie The 2nd.

These Chihuahuas weight about 15 lbs each.

They are made from cast iron.

and will last forever!

They were't too sure about them at first,

 but soon got used to them.

(Maximo just "marked" the one sitting down.)

I Found these at 

The Parker Country Market

This is an amazing place.

 They were are having a big sale.

They had a live band playing music, 

and Spinning the wheel for coupons.

Oh, here is the Facebook page.

Parker Country Market

Go like it.

They have Antiques, and hand made items.

Booths and Booths of one of kind items.

And Tons of lawn ornaments. 

Bears, lizards and Chihuahuas!

The people working there

 were friendly and nice and even "chatty".

 I love chatty people.

They even gave me a can of paint, 

incase my Chihuahuas got scratched on the way home.

 Statues - huge and small

 Bears!

Anything you can think of.

Oh and Trees, live Trees.

This is out side.

Inside is just as fun and Amazing!

I am definitely Going back, again and again.

I just looked at the Christmas pictures

 on their Facebook page  -

Amazing.

Now I can not wait for Christmas.

Donation To :Because of You Chihuahua Rescue"

I am Very Excited to Announce that

Posh Pooch Designs,

with the help of many others,

 raised $100.00 for the

Because of you Dog Rescue.

My goal was to raise $100.00

We almost didn't make it..

But pulled through at the end.

This is our 2nd fund raiser for this dog Rescue.

And I am planning on doing one

each year around this time.

Chihuahua are a special breed of Dog -

Small and Mighty

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

Let's do it again next year!

Where are My chihuahuas?

In Preparing 

 for our Garage Sale

this week-end,

I found my

"Taco Bell"Beanies,

as well as a few others.

Back to sorting through my beautiful skinny clothes,

that I can no longer wear,

(sigh).

Posh Pooch Designs in the Chihuahua Connection Magazine

Posh Pooch Designs is in The Chihuahua Connection Magazine! "It is a magazine for Chihuahuas and their people." It is published 8 times a year.  It is Filled with all types of Chihuahua information, from show news, to dog clothes,and special Articles.

This is the link to their web page to order a subscription: http://www.chihuahuaconnection.com/

The Article that Posh Pooch Designs is in, is about a very Special Chihuahua Named Diamond Girl. She is wearing one of our designs in her picture.




The Cinnamon Twist hat and Sweater Set  are Posh Pooch Designs.

Diamond Girl is a long haired Chihuahua that was born Blind. She was rescued from a Shelter by a wonderful lady named Shawna Hamon. Who has given Diamond Girl a forever home!!!!!  Isn't she just as beautiful as a diamond! Diamond Girl has her own facebook page called "Diamond Rescued".



Here is were our name is mentioned . :O)

 You can find the hat and sweater that Diamond Girl is wearing in my Artfire Shop. Just click on the Artfire link above.

Fall Colors

Fall 2010  Looking Down Our Street

Fall in Oklahoma isn't as Colorful as it is other places, but we do have some nice colors. This  a picture looking down our street. I think it is rather pretty.





Rosie  and Maximo

I brought Rosie and Maximo out front to play. We woke up to rain this morning, which we badly needed and more rain is coming. So I decided to take advantage of the break in the rain and let the pooches play in the leaves in the front yard.



Maximo did not like the wet leaves!!!!!

He just stood there and looked at me as if to say, "Mommy you have got to be kidding me, I am not getting my precious paws all wet!"  




Rosie Loved the leaves!!!

She ran around sniffing and prancing around, throwing the leaves in the air, well as far as you can throw  wet leaves. She had a blast!



Maximo in the flowers.

Maximo jumped up into the flower bed thinking it would be dry there.  NO, he got his precious paws wet and just looked at me again, with those sweet sad eyes, until I went over and picked him up...but of course I took a pic first!



Rosie in the flowers.

I guess Rosie didn't want to be left out, she jumped up into the flower bed and started posing for the camera. I think this is her serious face!



Looking the opposite direction, up our street.

 So even if we don't get all the reds, golds, and oranges in our fall folige that other states get.  I still love Fall In Oklahoma!

First Attempt at a Doggie Pouch Falls Short !!! Second attempt-A perfect fit!

I have seen a lot of the new crochet baby pouches and I love them. So I decided, since my chihuahuas are my babies and they love to snuggle under blanets...to make them some pouches. 

I picked out  a crochet pattern for a baby pouch, thinking I would modify it for my furbabies. I mean how hard can it be?????   right?  I added on to the sides to make it wide enough for them to curl up inside, then I  added on a few rows at the bottom, so they can hide in there.  They love that. Well, As you can see, in the pic...It came up short.  Maximo doesn't seem to mind.

 He loves the crochet blankets the best. He loves to curl up on top. He walks in a circle, about 10 times, till he has it just right and then plops down, and quickly falls a sleep.

Well, here is the finished product.  It looks like a great Big hat!  It's okay, you can giggle, I did!

 The colors are not my favorite, I was using what I had on hand for a test. I am going try out some other color combinations also. Do you have any colors you would like to see? Anyway, If it works good...I'll post the modified pattern, for others to try.

Lime green and Lemon Yellow Doggie Snuggle pouch

Second Attempt - A Perfect fit!

I added some width to the pattern, as well as, added 10 more rows to the length.  It is 22 inches long and 30 inches around. Maximo thinks it is a perfect fit for him. He is a total snuggle bunny!

Rosie wasn't so sure at first. She is always a little scared of new things. But she, like Maximo, loves to snuggle in blankets so I knew it wouldn't be long and she would also love it.

Yep, She loves it too! I knew she would.
The yarn I used is a soft baby yarn, and it it completely machine washable....YAY!

The yarn color choices are endless..I am thinking a black and white pattern with hot pink or Lime green trim, or maybe red trim, Or pink and white with black trim, ..... and there is always camo and orange......and........Like I said endless!

If you would like one for your pooch. Just email me at ssach@cox.net. I don't have them listed yet.

Meet Rossita Bell - Dog Model

Meet Rossita Bell, Rosie for Short,

Dog Model of Posh Pooch Designs Dog Clothes.

When we got Rosie she was 14

weeks old and weighed 1.4 lbs.

 She was tiny and under fed ,

 but I saw a special spark in her eyes.

We were going to call Her Lily Bell,

 but when my husband saw her,

he changed her name.

Maximo and Rosie became inseparable. 

They were and are Best buds, and BFFs!  

When one is away from the house, 

the other one whines and cries until they return. 

When I took Maximo to the Vet, 

She was so unset that she wouldn't eat till he got home.

Now Both, pooches are great at modeling for 

Posh Pooch Designs.

  (They will do anything for a cookie or two) 

 But both dogs have to model at the same time. 

I cannot have one model by themselves, 

When I have tried this, the other one lays down and pouts.

  So maybe I am the one who is trained, not them.

And Even though Maximo is older, 

Rosie is in charge and get them into lots of mischief.

Selfies "they" for Selfie Day!