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In this instructable, I will describe how you can make a t-shirt for your dog out of an old human-sized tee.
The first thing you'll need to do is gather your materials. You will need the following: dog old t-shirt pair of scissors sewing tape measure fabric...
Using your tape measure, get the following measurements: around the dog's middle (middle of chest is best) distance from neck to tail (along the back)...
Decide which side of the shirt you want showing and turn that face up on your cutting surface. Your first cut will be from the neck of the shirt to t...
Next, you'll want to cut away the extra fabric from the sides so the shirt will fit right. To do this, mark out a section at the bottom of the shirt ...
Turn the shirt over so that you have the stomach side facing upward. Measure from the neck down to the length from the dog's neck to mid-stomach and ...
Depending on the length of your dog's forelegs, you may need to cut the sleeves. Go ahead and do that now if you need to.
Turn the shirt inside out and use the fabric glue to hem up the cut edges. To do this, put some glue down on the fabric a little ways away from the e...
The trickiest bit of gluing is getting the sides of the shirt that go in the armpit glued back together. With the shirt inside out and the stomach si...
Your shirt should look something like this. Depending on the size of your dog and how much they like to be dressed, you may find it easier to make a ...
What project of this variety would be complete without a fashion show? Hopefully you and your dog will enjoy this as much as we did.
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thank you for this instructable - my Dudley labrador is next and thank god he loves dress ups. he is getting that dangerous gases t-shirt i have been saving for him!