This is unprecedented cold for Texas. Griffin usually doesn’t care about the cold, however zero degrees is a whole other matter. He outgrew the sweater I knit for him ages ago, and we needed something so he could at least go out for a couple minutes to do business. So I took some fleece earmarked to make beds and used some to whip him up a coat. I measured around his chest and added a couple inches, then measured from neck to tail. I cut a rectangle using those measurements, then cut leg holes and shaped around the hips. Strips cut along the neckline and chest made it easy to tie the sides together rather than sewing. Within about 10 minutes he had a new coat. He loves his coat!


