Dog Bed Pictures

You might remember that we bought Mako a dog pillow a few months ago. He really liked it, but he's had some skin issues in the last few months, mostly a food allergy I think, but we decided to replace his pillow too. It was a pretty simple project, but it took me a long time because, well, naptime is only so long and sometimes I like to take it too.

This is the foam core I used for the bed. It's 3 inches thick. Foam core isn't cheap! Another reason it took me so long is I had to wait two weeks for a 2nd JoAnn's flyer to come with another coupon.
I originally drew a pattern on two brown grocery sacks taped together, but I ended up not really needing them. I made a "box pillow", which basically has two identical sides and a running wall that connects them.
The first few times I sewed anything, I realized how very vital pins are to getting things right! So I used a lot of them.
A whole lot of them...
A lot lot lot of them.

I also used courderoy for my first time. I didn't realize that courderoy has to all lay the same direction or it looks like two different shades. Guess it's good I made a dog bed and not a pair of pants.
I spent so many little bits of time working on this that I really had more time to think about how I was doing it than I usually would. It really made me consider how doing something slowly and carefully produces a better result. If I had been hasty, I definately would have pulled out a lot more thread than I did! But really it's a life lesson about how I need to go about doing anything if I want to do it right.
Oh and I added a zipper. I was pretty proud of that because it looked really nice when I was done.
Just making sure it fits.

But you can see where the fabric looks two different shades in this picture.
All done!
Mako approves!