How to make the round beds?

[lv4dogs]

My dad's g/f just gave me a sewing machine. I thought I saw somewhere on here not too awful long ago about a pattern for the round beds but I couldn't find it. I was wondering if A. I am right? and B. could anyone share it with me?
Thanks is advance!

EDITED to add that my sewing machine only does a straight stitch, will that work for a cat bed?

[jazzcat]

Here's a link to a tutorial that sirrahbed put together. If you have any questions there are several of us who have made them. By the way, I've made a bunch using only a straight stitch for everything.

Tutorial

[LauraT7]

yes - a plain straight stitch is all you need -

unless you WANT to get fancy! Enjoy your machine - I know your Kitty's will!

here's a kitty bed i made for my Pixel out of 'recycled' materials - you don't have to put a ruffle on - the ruffle here was already made part of the baby crib bumper pad i recycled for the bed - and I didn't use polyfil - I just re-used the stuffing from a kinda flat ,old, bed pillow. ( I also sprinkled a bit of cat nip in the stuffing as I stuffed!)

I used regular calico - but I'm also experimenting with some of my son's old, soft sweatshirts and t-shirts - I figure Pixel is always trying to bed down in the laundry basket - he should like those soft old sweatshirts!



here's the instructions, which I copied from the old post - though I can't guarantee that THEIR photos, illustrating the directions will show up, as I don't have the links to them....

If someone has a link to that post, can you post it?

here's the instructions:

Tutorial for kitty condom beds
This is for the kitty condom type beds that Laura's Babies designed and taught Lori (Jazzcat) to make. Then Lori taught me, so hopefully these directions make sense. The pictures are some that Lori sent to me and some of mine, too. The directions are some of my own, and some of Lori's all pasted together!!

Each bed takes 1 yard of 60 inch fabric (flannel is a good bit less expensive that fleece, but fleece is cozier) Laura's are fleece. If the fabric is 45' wide - it takes 1 2/3 yards. A 16 ounce bag of polyfil made two beds for me. I bought my flannel (pink and blue) at Jo-Ann on sale for $1.50 a yard and it was 45 inches wide. The regular price was $4.99. Check the remnant area, too! I also saw cute fabrics at Wal-Mart.

First, cut a long piece of fabric 12 inches wide. An 18-19 inch bed takes 60 inches. A 24 inch bed takes another 12 inches sewed on to the end to make a 72 inch x 12 inch strip.. This is the rim. To make the circle, try cutting a square the size you want and then rounding the corners - it takes two circles.

First, fold the long strip in half lengthwise with right sides out. Use pins every here and there to keep it even. Put one round piece down, right side up, and pin the strip all the way around, folding the tube in pleats towards the inside as you go. When pinning the tube, cut off your excess material if you have some, but leave enough to fold in a little to make a little hem then pin one end inside the other just a little.

When using batting rather than polyfil, Lori discovered that it is best to pin the tube to a piece of the base with the batting so your layers are batting on bottom, base material and then tube. Here is what it looks like so far:







Stitch the tube closed with a whipstitch.
That is all!!

Here are six of Lori's bed:


Here is my 18 inch bed with batting on the bottom and a bit too much stuffing!! Big enough for Dylan - fitting snuggly

Here is my 24 inch bed with less stuffing in the tube (about 1/3 bag) and this one I also stuffed the bottom rather than use batting. Altogether, this big bed took about 1/2 bag of polyfil.

[catmandu]

THOSE ARE REALLY GREAT BEDS,AND THE FOUND CATS,REALLY LOVE THIER CODOM BEDS,A LOT!