DIY Dog Jingle Collar

DIY Dog Jingle Collar

These whimsical, jester-like DIY dog jingle collar takes 15 minutes of machine-sewing and 45 minutes of hand-stitching to get the jingle bells on. Just the kind of thing you can work on while riding in the car or watching TV.

Materials Needed:

• 1/2 yard of polar fleece or other thick / stiff fabric; 60 inches wide
• 10 1/2″ jingle bells
• 14″ piece of 1/4″ elastic

DIY Dog Jingle Collar Steps

1. Fold the fabric in half to form on long skinny rectangle 9″ x 60″. Make a mark every 6 inches, 4″ from the fold.
2. Make a mark 3″ from the edge along the raw 60″ edge. Make a mark every 6″ from this first mark along the 60″ edge
3. Sew in a sawtooth pattern to join the marks. The result should look like the diagram below
4. Trim about 1/2″ from the seam you just sewed. Be sure to clip all the corners
5. Turn the jagged tube right-side out.
6. Feed the elastic through the tube and sew the two ends of the elastic together.
7. Use a whip stitch to hand-sew the two ends of the collar together to form the round collar shape
8. Sew a jingle bell on each of the 10 points
9. Put it on your pup and bask in your DIY Jingle Bell Collar glory

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