Making Dog Bandanas
March 9, 2010 by Paris Permenter and John Bigley
Filed under Budget Tips, Tips
We’re always on the lookout for ways to save money on dog items. We love bandanas on our dogs but, to be honest, they don’t last every long (the dogs wind up pulling them off each other) so they’re not an item we want to spend much money buying.
The answer? Make our own. However, neither of us sews (other than stitching this and that by hand…and we can’t imagine hemming two bandanas.) We came up with a solution, though: pinking shears.
These sawtoothed scissors cut a zigzag edge to reduce fraying (it won’t completely prevent fraying…but we have a feeling the bandanas will be long gone before fraying sets in anyway).
To make our bandanas, we purchased two half-yard pieces of fabric. (We wanted some seasonal bandanas but our next batch will be made from discarded shirts.) Each half-yard was the size of two full-sized, square bandanas, the perfect size for our large dogs. We cut the first square and tried it on Irie:
The result was too full, though; it looked a little like a bib. We took the square and cut it into two triangles then did the same thing on the other pattern we purchased. In all, from our two half-yard pieces, we’ve got enough fabric to make eight bandanas!
About Paris Permenter and John Bigley
DogTipper publishers Paris Permenter and John Bigley are a husband-wife team of full-time writers. The couple has authored over two dozen books and 2,500+ magazine articles.
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