Sewing warm clothes for a dog is sometimes simply necessary if your friend is a short-haired and small creature from the breed of dachshunds, French bulldogs, toy terriers. A coat that has overgrown with wool Yorkshire terrier also does not hurt. Making overalls is not easy, but a sleeveless jacket is quite within the power of anyone.
It is necessary
- - soft woolen fabric;
- - thick denim or waterproof fabric;
- - soft elastic band;
- - Velcro for fasteners.
Instructions
Step 1
Make a pattern of the jacket out of soft paper, it consists of three parts: a strip along the back, two sides with protrusions for fasteners on the chest and under the abdomen. The pattern from above resembles the silhouette of a stag beetle, the horns correspond to rounded stripes that fix the jacket on the chest. The sides are the same shape as the beetle's elytra, with a cut-out flap from one of the sides for fastening; in the middle - a straight strip, from withers to tail, wide enough to cover the back of the dog from top to sides.
Step 2
Secure the pattern with paper clips or pins and try on the dog. Take a soft woolen fabric (woolen scarf, shawl, any other old woolen garment), cut out parts with allowances for seams and hem, sew the parts. Take a denim or waterproof fabric, cut also with allowances, sew the details, align the lining with the top of the jacket, fold the cuts, baste and stitch the top and lining.
Step 3
Stitch over the top two seams connecting the back to the sides to secure the top and lining in this part of the jacket. Sew two pieces of Velcro tape close to the edge of the sidewall, along the seam, just below the belly, that is, in the widest part of the sidewall, to the right side. Sew four pieces of Velcro tape to the wrong side of the flap on the other side, so that they go across the ones that are sewn to the other side.
Step 4
Sew pieces of Velcro tape to the ends of the jacket that will fix it to the chest, at one end along the front side, at the other end across the wrong side.
Step 5
Attach the Velcro hood to the jacket: cut out two rectangles and a strip of lining and face fabric. The height of the rectangle corresponds to the distance from the withers to the forehead, the width corresponds to the depth of the hood; the length of the strip corresponds to the sum of the height and width of the rectangle, the width is equal to the width of the back of the jacket.
Step 6
Sew the lining, then the top of the hood, fold the cuts, match the top and the lining, run a soft elastic along the front cut, try on the dog, and tuck the hood up to the desired size. Wash and stitch the top and lining together.
Step 7
Sew pieces of Velcro tape to the ends of the hood, from the inside out on one end, to the face on the other; Sew a long piece of Velcro tape to the central strip at the edge, from the wrong side, to the back strip, close to the edge sew four pieces of Velcro tape across to the front side, at the edge where the hood will be attached.
