The Chia Pet
Stacie over at "
The Flirty Blog" has been really creative with her dog Kitai. Our favorite? This Chia Pet costume:
No need to watch it grow! And we'd have our own, real-life Chia pet!
Check out her instructions for how to make on your own:
Here's how I did it. I used plastic aquarium plants that you can buy in pairs that are square mats. The only problem was that I needed 5 and apparently each Petsmart stocks 3 sets. So I had to make two trips to different stores to find enough of them.
I pulled all of the foliage off the mats. Then I made a horse blanket out of green felt and strategically cut holes in the felt using an x-acto knife. I pushed the prongs of the grid through the holes and reattached the foliage alternating the two different types of leaves. I then lined the entire costume from the back so that none of the plastic could poke him or make him feel uncomfortable.
His terra cotta legs were made of cotton fabric. There is a liner pant leg that fits his leg and the larger pot shaped leg that went over the inner casing. The legs are all held in place by suspender style straps that span over his shoulders and back. The green cross strap down his back is to keep the rear pant legs from slipping down off of his back.
Here's a little tutorial about how I made the terra cotta pant legs. More in depth details are at the following blog post:
CLICK HERE
Around his neck I hand stitched the leaves to cover the felt. Here's a close up of how the foliage was attached.
Chi Chi Chi Chia!
No need to watch it grow! And we'd have our own, real-life Chia pet!
Check out her instructions for how to make on your own:
Here's how I did it. I used plastic aquarium plants that you can buy in pairs that are square mats. The only problem was that I needed 5 and apparently each Petsmart stocks 3 sets. So I had to make two trips to different stores to find enough of them.
I pulled all of the foliage off the mats. Then I made a horse blanket out of green felt and strategically cut holes in the felt using an x-acto knife. I pushed the prongs of the grid through the holes and reattached the foliage alternating the two different types of leaves. I then lined the entire costume from the back so that none of the plastic could poke him or make him feel uncomfortable.
His terra cotta legs were made of cotton fabric. There is a liner pant leg that fits his leg and the larger pot shaped leg that went over the inner casing. The legs are all held in place by suspender style straps that span over his shoulders and back. The green cross strap down his back is to keep the rear pant legs from slipping down off of his back.
Here's a little tutorial about how I made the terra cotta pant legs. More in depth details are at the following blog post: CLICK HERE
Around his neck I hand stitched the leaves to cover the felt. Here's a close up of how the foliage was attached.
Chi Chi Chi Chia!
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