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Several months ago, I was browsing the dollar section at Target and found this hideous little raincoat perfectly sized for Scooter. Since it was only a dollar, of course I bought it. I have been meaning to work on sprucing it up, and covering up the plainer parts by re-fashioning

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Several months ago, I was browsing the dollar section at Target and found this hideous little raincoat perfectly sized for Scooter. Since it was only a dollar, of course I bought it. I have been meaning to work on sprucing it up, and covering up the plainer parts by re-fashioning the coat myself.I hated all the details from the original rain coat, from the blue runner ribbon that wasn’t even long enough to fit around Scoot’s belly, to the awkward hood that wouldn’t lay flat and was always in the way. The first thing I had to fix was the hood, so I fixed it to stay in place using a tiny piece of Velcro on the back of the hood, that’s completely hidden when its laying flat now. The coat originally had an ugly blue ribbon that wrapped around but didn’t even come close to being able to fit around any sort of dog I’ve seen. Scooter weighs in at a whopping 4 lbs, and there was no way that ribbon was going to reach around his little belly. I decided to jazz it up using this decorative black floral swirl ribbon I picked up at hobby lobby awhile back. I spent less than on this raincoat. The coat itself was only and the roll of ribbon was a bit over (but I didn’t use much, and have nearly the whole roll left). I really like having various coats for Scooter, he almost never has an occasion to wear them, but its a great way for me to practice creating different things, and get in some time with my sewing machine. We’ve shared our coat making experiences before, remember this post?And coincidentally, its torentially raining outside today, so we’ll be breaking out the new coat just in time.

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