How to Sew a Foam Cat Bed
There's a difference between overindulging and providing for the pet's needs. Not that there's anything wrong with overindulging a pet that gives unconditional love. Determining the needs of your pet is an important part of being a cat or dog owner. A pet needs a place it can know is its own. A soft bed is one of these territorial possessions. Fleece covered beds keep your pet comfortable and warm. Sewing a foam bed for your cat is an easy project, and sewing a fleece cover will add the extra special warmth your cat craves.
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Things You'll Need
- Foam - 19-inches width by 19-inches length
- Fleece - 24-inches width by 24-inches length
- Elastic - ½-inches wide by 38-inches length
- Scissors
- Straight pins
- Safety pins - 2
- Sewing machine
- Needle
- Thread
Instructions
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Fold the edges of the fleece square over two inches against the wrong side of the fabric (solid fleece normally doesn't have a "right" or "wrong" side of the fabric. If you're not working with a print fleece, simply choose which side you will consider the "wrong" side). You are forming a casing for the elastic. This is a gutter or "tunnel" for the elastic to fit through.
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Pin the edges with the straight pins, leaving a 3-inch opening or gap unpinned that will not be sewn and will be the entry/exit for the elastic.
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Sew, on the sewing machine, using a 1-inch seam allowance and the straight stitch function, the edges of the square along the pins, leaving open the 3-inch gap. Remove pins as you sew.
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Connect a safety pin to the end of the elastic. Connect the other safety pin to the other end of the elastic AND to the fabric of the opening to the elastic casing. This will prevent you from losing the elastic within the casing as you are working.
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Feed the pin/elastic through the 3-inch opening until the pin/elastic emerges from the other opening of the casing.
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Pull both ends of elastic out and sew together. Hand sew the 3-inch opening of the casing closed.
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Turn the fleece cover right side out and insert the foam square into the elasticized opening of the cover, pulling the elastic edges over the foam. Cover is removable for washing and drying.
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Tips & Warnings
Sew two covers so that you have one for the bed while the other cover is in the laundry. Wash often to reduce pet dander and hair build up.
