89-year-old Maisie Green is a self-professed dog lover.
The retiree from London, England, also happens to love knitting. While hand-crafting gifts for her friends and family is all fine and good, she recently realized she could do even more with her skills. That's when she decided to combine her two passions and set out to do something absolutely wonderful for her local animal shelter.
"Nifty with needles or handy with a crochet hook? We're calling all crafty types to contribute home-made dog coats for our Hope Project Christmas hampers," the shelter wrote in a Facebook post.
Clearly, the initiative appealed to Maisie.
As the shelter revealed in a December 2018 blog post, Maisie has lovingly spent the last three years knitting around 450 coats and blankets to help keep the shelter dogs warm and happy during the winter season.
In one Instagram post from the shelter, Maisie can be seen proudly posing in front of her latest batch of homemade donations, which are sure to make some wonderful doggos very happy and very cozy.
"It takes me three days to knit a blanket and one day to knit a doggy coat," she told the shelter. "It keeps me busy and often I like to knit whilst watching television. I’m delighted to be helping the four-legged residents at the center in some way.”
Lisa Cooper, the manager of Dogs Trust Re-homing Center, said that Maisie regularly donates knitted gifts to the shelter.
"With the chill of the winter months really starting to creep up on us I know our dogs are very pleased to put the items to good use - and love feeling extra cozy," she said.
Her goal is to regularly donate more than a dozen homemade goods for the deserving pups, and suffice it to say, they definitely seem like they appreciate their cozy new blankets.
