How To Sew Pup Bandanas: Sewing For Beginners

1. Dog Bandana Intro: Hi there. This is Roo one of our models. She was a big inspiration for creating this class. And I'm Jo Simpson from Jots Studio. Come join us and we'll go over how to sew these darling pet bandanas. This class is for a beginner level. If you need help with winding bobbins or setting up your machine. See my sewing for beginners, the foundations for sewing class here on Skillshare. I'll guide you through finding out your dog's bandana size based on their collar. There are also general sizes if it's for a gift. I'll also show you how to make a reverse pattern template in case you want to make lots, will go step-by-step over supplies, cutting fabric, and how to sew the bandana. This is a quick and easy sewing project. I think we'll have a lot of fun. 2. Class Project: Be sure to upload photos of your bandana in the project section, I would love to see what you create and see your cute little and big pets. 3. Supplies And Materials: You'll need two pieces of cotton fabric. Eat by six inches for the extra small, up to 16 by 12 for the large size. A sewing machine. Coordinating thread, pen or pencil. Paper or card stock is nice too. A ruler. Sharp scissors and iron and ironing board, or a towel, a skewer or pen, something sharp. Because when we turn these inside out, we'll put it in and push the corner point out. And optional is a pet collar for measuring. But you will need one for the pet to where when you put the bandana on. But if you're making it for gifts or a craft fair, then you don't need the collar. And another optional is stencil sheet. In case you want to make lots of them. This makes it really easy to cut them out. In our next lesson, we'll figure out sizes in the patterns and sizes lesson. 4. Patterns And Sizes: For making the bandana, you can go with the general sizes that you see in this chart. Or if you'd prefer to make a custom bandana, you can measure your dog's collar minus the clip part. So between here and here. And that measurement will be the top measurement when making your pattern. So it will be that that part. You'll see how we do this in the next video. Either way, general size of your custom, you can't really go wrong making a dog bandana. Here's what each pattern size looks like. Here's extra small for Yorkies, Chihuahua, bugg puppy size. So that's the collar length. This is the edge which will be the opening. You're going to have a seam allowance. And the length. Here's the small for bugg, pug, Boston Terrier size. So it's got a bigger edge which will fit. The bigger size collar. Have the medium for collies and reteiver size. And the large for Saint Bernard, Bernese Mountain dog sized dogs. In the next lesson, we will cut out our patterns and fabric. 5. Cutting Patterns And Cutting Fabric: Okay, we are going to cut the extra small size for demo, which fits little Roo. So her collar size was seven. So I'm gonna go with that. While I'm here. I'm gonna go down an inch and a half inch and-a-half mark it on that side as well. Then seven. So that's 3.5. To get to my middle, I should just put 1.5. What I'm gonna do six inch is going down. So at seven inches across, so it 3.5. I'm putting my middle point. I'm going to go down six inches. My color, edge size, my length, and now I'm just going to match up those edge points with the bottom point. It was just want this to be perfect. My bandana. Read extra small so I know the size I'm using again or if it's your own dog or the only one for that size, you could put the name on it. I'll show you too. There's the template which I'll go over in the bonus lesson if you want to make a lot of them, that bonus lesson will be at the end. Okay. There we go. Now, the way I'm going to grab my fabric, you can use the wrong side to trace it. If it's easier to see the right side, if you're on a dark fabric, you could use a chalk. If it's dark on both sides. If it's lighter, you can just use a pen. I think I like these double trees for the point. So I'm just going to make sure I'm gonna lose three-eighths of an inch here on the seam allowance. And I'll show you when you have the the reverse template, it's kinda easier to see. Okay, I like that tree that looks fairly lined up. Grab my pen and just trace around two points there. Since it's reversible. That's one sign. Now, it choose another fabric for the other side. Like these bubbles, they pop, but I really liked the little lady bugs. So I think we're gonna go with the lady bug. And this one is a little short, so I'm just gonna put the extra into the seam allowance. Okay, so there's my bottom. That looks good. I do waste fabric because I really like to fussy cut and get it perfect, Perfect part of the fabric. Other side. Of course, you could use your rotary cutter like this. It would be pretty quick. Okay, we have our two pieces, those are going to look great together. So next we are going to sew the bandana together. 6. Sewing The Bandana: Okay, So I have my two fabrics. I'm just going to place them right sides together. It's so small. I'm not going to worry about pinning it. Let's make sure it's straight. What I'm gonna do is three-eighths of an inch. I'm just going to keep it on that line. I'm not going to worry about back stitching because this is going to go into the side seam. Trimming the threads. If you want, you could press finger, press it down. Yeah, So you just do that kinda pull it and then just press Okay. Now the side seam. So this one I guess that's all. I want to be in half and half an inch. I'm just going to check my ruler and see if I'm close, very close. I'm just going to press up slow. Here we go. So again here I don't need to backstitch. And on the other side as well. Thanks. I'm just gonna make it all looks good. Okay. This is looking good. Okay. So now what I'm gonna do the back and have one everything else here. You could pin it if it's not staying, on this side so you can see better. Right? You just put one pin across there. Now we're going to sew the bottom of the triangle sides together with a three-eighths inch. I'm going to backstitch well, because this is gonna be the hole where I turn it right side out. I'm gonna go a couple of stitches. Usually. You can see the needle down setting and then when you stop, the needle stays down. And that makes a pivot on the corner much easier. I'm just going to backstitch. Before recording this right side now, we just want to clip some of the bulk of this point. That sits, sits a little nicer. Now we can turn this right side out. Yeah, I just kind of pulling the fabric from the inside out and just keep pushing this edge down. The bigger ones are a little easier for this part. Reminds me of the 80s, making scrunchies. That's looking good. So this is where I can use the skewer. You can kinda smooth. seams. Poke around until you find the fabric of that corner. Well, that looks really good. It's going to go on the other hole and just smooth this out. We'll take it to the iron, press it so it's nice and flat and then we'll come back to the machine. Okay, that's nice and pressed. Now we are going to do an eighth of an inch top stitch around the whole bottom. I guess I should show the bottom two sides of the triangle. I'm going to backstitch so it doesn't come undone. I'm going to trim these threads. Nice and close. That's looking great on both sides. The color through. There we go. All ready to go. 7. Thank You: How did your bandana turn out? Great. I hope. Thank you so much for being with us today. And don't forget to get a photo of your pet looking fabulous with their new bandana. You can find us on Instagram @jotsstudio and jotstudio.com Until next time. 8. Bonus: Bandana Template: Okay it's time to make a template. So I have my stencil acetate, have my template. And I've left an inch around the sides to make it nice and strong. I'm going to trace it. I'm going to have my bottom point. So I'm just going to go an inch lower. An inch on the side of that edge or the size of stencil I make. Then any thing I want to put on this, so I'm gonna do extra small size. Cut this out. We've got a inch here to keep it nice and strong. Middle . Now, this is great if you're making these for craft fairs or a bunch of friends or a doggie birthday party. . It's just nice to have a stencil. You can fussy cut on your fabric, which is where you just move it around until you like the spot. So now we can see this isn't really, I don't really have fabric handy to. Now. Say I want one of these to be featured, right? I can just line it up like that. That's really all you wanna do with this one. Probably. If you wanted stripes, it would wind it up nicely too.