Knit for Your Horse
You can buy a yarn/pattern kit to make your horse a blanket with a circular yoke (like the Icelandic sweater Alda just made for her daughter). I’m told it’s good yarn and it’s only $88 euros, but it doesn’t include needles.
The site is in German, so the information above is by word of mouth. I can pronounce German, thanks to my voice-major diction class in 1977, but I don’t know what the words I’m pronouncing mean. That is a bit dangerous, I’d say!.
It’s a very stylish horse!
February 8th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Horses are very hard on blankets. They roll on them. They poop on them. They rip them playing with other horses. This is not a good of yarn and time.
February 8th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
It might work as something to put on the horse while its being led to warm up of cool down. I think the German means something like ‘Why always knit islandsweaters for humans?”
Later they refer to the garment as an ‘umhang’ which can translate as cape, cloak, wrap, etc.
Diana (who tutored German decades ago….)
February 8th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
No horse here, but my dog will certainly grow to at least 150 pounds, maybe more. Maybe I should study this photo and try to come up with a pattern?
Wouldn’t help. I don’t make sweaters for my very tall husband because I have a short attention span. If I want to do dog sweaters, I need a Chihuahua!
Stay warm!
Jan