DIY – Crazy Cat Lady Blog

Step 1: procrastinate.

So I’ve had the materials to make the girls new collars for literally MONTHS…. and it took me signing up for a doggie 5k to get my butt in gear!

Tonight I rounded up my materials:
-fabric of choice (scraps from a quilt top I made a few years ago)
-2 dollar store nylon dog collars (for the hardware)
-scissors
– interfacing (yay more scraps!)
-coordinating thread
-sewing machine and iron

I started by cutting the hardware off ONE of the collars. ** Leave the other one alone for now so you can see how to put it back together!**

I laid my collar on my fabric and cut the piece 4 times as wide (folded in half twice it should fit your nylon inside it) and cut it about 5 inches longer than the cut collar.

Tyen I ironed my interfacing into the back of my fabric pieces

After ironing the interfacing on, fold your fabric piece in half lengthwise and iron.

*pro tip starch is super helpful*

You will now fold the sides in to meet the fold line in the middle and iron them.

I think of it like making bias tape.

When complete, you’ll fold in half again lengthwise and press.

Some tutorials I read wanted uppity to insert the nylon collar (or a piece of nylon which can be bought by the yard at hobby lobby) into one of the side folds and then fold in half and sew… I did do this with one of the collars, but with the thick heavy duty interfacing I used it was too thick to easily adjust so I left it out if the second and that worked much better.

You will have to sew the ends and at least down the open side.

I kindof fold in thre corners of the ends like a tenne then fold it down square to keep the frayed ends of the fabric from poking out the sides.

I sewed ALL THE WAY AROUND at about 1/4 inch.

So purty.

So then I unclipped that collar I hadn’t cut yet and started adding hardware

That square x thingie is harder than it looks!

This is the most complicated hardware. You have to thread the adjustment loop through then the end goes up through the end clip, back down through it, and up inside the adjustment loop and back down through it.(so the adjustment loop has 2 layers through it) Then you sew the loose end to itself where it was going up to the adjustment loop.

BUT THEN YOU ARE DONE!

Now you can cut your other collar and do it all over again!

my Ellie is the CUTEST model even though she’d much rather be naked.

Bindi the maniac was harder to capture a shot of 😂😂😂

Next step is to make them some girlie collar bling and then some coats for our February 5k.

I’ll be sure to show you how it all turns out!!!

xoxo
ME

I just won’t let it die in peace.

You may remember my previous post regarding my poor ottoman.

Where I took it from :

THIS

To this.

Well for several months it’s looked more like this….

Yep. Sad story.

You see, I am not a very good upholsterer it turns out, and over time a whole side of my gorgeous grey fabric fell off. And I thought “this is my chance to re-do it correctly.”

So I ripped the rest of the fabric off, bought new, then proceeded to just throw a blanket over it and procrastinate.

But it’s in my bedroom, I see it all the time.

It’s so awful.
But all my research on the Internet did not render me a good ottoman sewing tutorial where the top was separate, so despite my desire to do it right I decided I was just tired of looking at it.

Yet again I did it the easy/fast way instead of the right way, you know what that means?
In a year or two I’ll recover it again.

Oh well!
For now I’ll show you how I did it, in case you want to poorly recover your own ottoman–