Learn to Sew a Dog Bandana!

With summer coming up, you want your pup to look good and be ready to celebrate the season! It can be hard to get your dog to stay still to tie a bandana on though, so how to do you accessorize them easily? A simple answer is to have the bandana attach to the dog's collar! This sewing pattern will show you how to make a bandana that can loop through your dog's collar! It's so easy you will be making bandanas for all seasons!

Video Instructions

Items Needed:

• Dog Bandana Pattern Piece (located at the end of the instructions) 
• Depending on the size of your dog the amount of fabric will change
• Approximately expect to use a quarter to half a yard of cotton fabric
• Thread
• Scissors
• Sewing Machine

Step 1: Cut out fabric, so you have two full pieces of the bandana. There are two ways to do this with the pattern piece. You can cut out one pattern piece and cut out the pattern twice on a folded edge, or cut out two pattern pieces and place this on two layers of the fabric. The pattern piece labels a side A, side B, and a side C which will be referred to in the pattern.

Example of cutting out pattern on the folded edge

Example of cutting out two pattern pieces.

Step 2: Pin the bandana pieces right sides together, and sew from the first mark to the second mark. At the end you should have a hole for turning the bandana.

Step 3: Turn the bandana right side out.

Step 4: Optional: Iron bandana for a crisper look.

Step 5: Fold the top of the bandana (side A) down an inch and pin.

Step 5: Sew across the top of the bandana, about an inch down, so there is a loop. This is where the collar will loop through. 

Step 6: Optional: Top stitch sides B and C if you want to give the bandana a more polished look. I did not do this step. 

Step 7: Put the bandana on your dog's collar, and let your dog wear it!

Bandana Pattern

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