03.06.08
Greyhounds Don’t Shed, and Other Tall Tales
Crivvie got a massage today.
Despite the ‘crazy eyes’ look in the pic, she loves it.
She actually has a type of undercoat, which is kind of unusual for greyhounds. It’s quite soft, but short staple, so perhaps someday I’ll dehair it and blend it with some cashmere or somesuch. Mom would have got a kick out of that.
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I was cruising around looking for fabric (I may not sew worth a damn, but I’ve got the stash impulses) and saw this: Knitmare On Elm Street. Might make for a cute knitting bag fabric or needle case.
ETA: when I googled for a better closeup of the knit pirates fabric, I found Alison of Blue Blog’s cool bags.
Speaking of stashing, Nick and I went up to Ashland yesterday and I stopped in at Fabric of Vision. It’s a small shop, but packed with good stuff, and the owner was really nice and very helpful. I bought In Stitches and Sew What! Skirts, and a yard and a half of fabric with which to make a fairly simple A line skirt. I was just checking out etsy, and look, here’s the fabric!
The fabric reminded me of my Grammy Kitchel, something she might have as curtains at the La Jolla house.
Our amazing sheepy bed has arrived (pics in the next post, I promise) and I thought it might be neat to make organic sheets and a duvet for the bed. I googled organic fabric and found NearSea. Wow.
They have a nice selection and good prices of organic and plant dyed yarn as well. I built a shopping cart of about $600, for fabric alone.
Then I bookmarked it and walked away. Thankfully, the cart was not saved. When I have come to my senses, I will return and build another cart. 
I, uh, still need to unpack my sewing machine though.
June said,
March 7, 2008 at 6:50 am
Yeah, organic cotton is spendy all right.
I like the SW!S book, but I would put in a center seam on those a-line panels and redo the grain line to improve drape (4-gore instead of 2-gore skirts). Then again, you probably are skinny enough for those skirts to look OK as is. If you look on Flickr to see examples, you can see how other skirts have turned out when all the drape hits the hips only.
Terri said,
March 7, 2008 at 9:33 am
That is a CRAZY amount of fur off a greyhound! I wonder what it would do for Apollo’s thick, thick pelt? He actually doesn’t ever seem to shed, and yet when I hug him wearing black, I’m covered with white fur.
Those pirate bags are AWESOME! Actually, it’s probably a good thing that I am such a crap sewer … seamstress … uh, have crap sewing skilz, because if I had the opportunity to amass a fabric stash, I’d be in BIG trouble!!
La said,
March 7, 2008 at 11:41 am
That tongue-loll says it all. She’s enjoying every minute of that massage!
Wendy said,
March 7, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I have always wondered what would happen if we mixed our dogs’ hair. I imagine that Chuck’s hair would go with Crivvie’s. Just a thought.
LoriO said,
March 7, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I love that Knitmare on Elm Street fabric! So cute. And I always wondered about the furminator. There might be one in my (and Picabou’s) future.
And what is with Greyhounds and their tongues hanging out all the time? It’s hysterical!
Terri said,
March 8, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Lori, you’re right! I was so distracted by the bad wig looking puff of hair that I completely missed Crivvie’s gump tongue!!
Hilari said,
March 10, 2008 at 12:16 am
All those links? A little evil. Thanks a lot.
Melissa said,
March 15, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Do NOT take your example from Alison.
Besides she has 3 kids and has a reason to sew for them.
This is spoken by a woman who has finally destashed her quilting fabric (but not her dress fabric) after moving it thousands and thousands of miles. No more! I’m free!
Marin said,
March 24, 2008 at 6:43 am
Oooh! Oooh! I have the Knitmare on Elm Street line! Several chunks! And some day, I will haul my sewing machine up from the garage and make project bags with it.
Good grief. I had no idea you could get that much fur off a greyhound and not have a bald greyhound.