String Blocks Make A Great Big Dog Bed for McPherson

    I had to make a dog bed for my daughter's little Cairn Terrier, McPherson.  She rescued him in January and he has been a great addition to her life.

     I made him a scrappy bed a couple of months ago with some 3" scraps I needed to get rid of and he loves that bed.  No picture of that effort, sorry, but here's a picture of McPherson.  Isn't he the cutest?  He is 17 pounds of squirrel hunting craziness.

   Since his first scrappy bed lives in the great room area, McPherson needs another bed for the bedroom.  I had some string blocks all ready for this project.  I put 9 of my 10" square string blocks together, sewed that top onto a stabilizing piece of fabric, added a backing pieced together from three fat quarters, stuffed it with three bags of fiberfill and hand sewed the open end.  Done.

Dog Harness Finished.

I made a few modifications to this pattern, but all in all it works well for my little dachshund boy.  Dachshunds are notoriously hard to fit with harnesses, coats or sweaters.  I made this one with some brown fabric I had and it's kind of hard to see in these pictures, but the next one will be blue.  I bought the pattern from PupPanache.com on etsy.com.