Easy Homemade Reversible Dog Bandannas

Easy Homemade Reversible Dog Bandannas

Buy two contrasting fabrics or bandannas (sold at your local craft store).

Measure your puppy’s collar.

The width of the bandanna should be about 2/3rds the length of the collar.  For example, if the collar is 15 inches long, then you will want your finished bandanna to be about 10 inches.  

Add one inch in length for the seam allowance.

The length (from the top edge of the bandanna to the pointed tip) should be about 1-2 inches shorter 

than the width.  For the 10 inch wide bandanna  the length (from the top straight edge to the 

point of the bandanna  should be 8 or 9 inches.  

Add one inch to this measurement for the seam allowances.

Fold your fabric or bandanna in half, forming a triangle.  Measure from the tip of the point (for the 15 inch collar, measure up 9 or 10 inches), and mark.   

Keeping the fabric folded in half, so that you keep a perfect triangle, measure for the width, keeping in mind that this measurement should be ½ of the estimated width because the fabric is folded in half.  (For a 10 inch wide bandanna, plus 1 inch for the seam allowance = 11 inches total, measure 5 ½ inches from the fold.) 

  Cut across the fabric, to the desired length. 

You want to make a collar sleeve at the top of the bandanna   

This should be 1-1 ½ inches wider than your puppy’s collar.  I make mine about 2 ½  wide, so that the collar buckle can easily thread through the bandanna.  To do this, at the marking of 

your width measurement  (the 5 ½ inch mark), measure down the amount 

you have decided will work best for your particular collar (like 2 ½ inches).  Mark this point. 

Keeping the fabric folded, cut from the top of the fabric down in a straight line to the collar sleeve mark.  From this point, now cut down towards the pointed tip, making a triangle.

Use this fabric piece as a pattern to cut out your contrasting second side for your bandanna.

Using either a straight stitch or a zigzag stitch, fold under a ¼ - ½  inch seam to finish the straight edges along the collar sleeve, doing all four edges (two edges on each fabric piece).

Pin the two pieces of fabric, with right sides together, and stitch along the top edge of the collar sleeve and then along the edges of your triangle, being sure to leave the hemmed edges open and unstitched.

Trim the three edges close to the stitched seam – along the 2 triangle sides and the top edge.

Turn the bandanna  right sides out, by reaching through one of the hemmed edges along the collar sleeve.  Make sure that the point is turned completely, and press with an iron until nice and flat.

Now line up the sewing machine at one of the top edges of the triangle and stitch straight across to the other edge of the triangle.  You have now finished the collar sleeve, by stitching closed the bottom edge.

Thread your puppy’s collar through the sleeve and you have a reversible bandanna for your puppy to wear!