Sushi Roll Dog Costume

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Introduction: Sushi Roll Dog Costume

This is a easy costume for your dog. :)  I noticed there were a couple of nigiri sushi costumes out there, but had never seen one that was a maki roll so I decided to try making one myself.

Step 1: Sushi Roll Dog Costume

First you will need your supplies:

Sherpa Fleece (I have a medium dog so I used 1 yard)
Fabric (I like the backside of faux seude because the shiny side looked right to imitate seaweed)
Thread
Thick elastic (I also got 1 yard of this)
Velcro (I use the iron-on kind)

Step 2:

Next fold the fabric into itself until you have a long strip. The width will be the final width of the roll so you want to make it a size that will fit good on your dog. Once I was happy with the width I sewed the two ends together in the center.

Step 3:

Now roll your strip of fleece together into a tight roll and sew the end of the roll to the main part of the roll at the end. It doesn't have to be pretty because it's going to be covered with the "seaweed" anyway.

Step 4:

Next you want to sew the elastic to the bottom of the roll near where the end is.

Step 5:

Now you can sew the "seaweed" fabric on the outside of the roll. I folded over the edges on the sides and just did big stitches into the roll, but you can also hide the stiches in the fold of the fabric if you know how to do that (I did that on the left side of the roll).

Step 6:

The fun part!! Decide what kind of sushi you want to add to your roll! I made little pillows of three different colors using fabric scraps and a little batting and then sewed them onto the roll. But you can do this part in many different ways! You can color paper to look like your favorite fish and glue it to the roll, or you can get foam and make it more fancy. Since everything else on the roll was fabric, I went the fabric route myself. The last thing to do is to iron on the velcro to the ends of the elastic. I forgot to take a picture of that, but the iron on velcro works really well if you are okay with the smell of hot elastic and velcro while you are doing it. Sew velcro would be less stinky, but I was in a hurry to finish since it was already close to Halloween.

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    22 Comments

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    23howhoww
    23howhoww

    5 years ago

    kawaii desu

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    Slippery arm
    Slippery arm

    6 years ago

    My dog would kill me if I put that on her but it is still super cute

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    B-Rob Dewey
    B-Rob Dewey

    8 years ago

    Dag if only it only it corners his hole body but you still did a good job

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    Raquel_
    Raquel_

    8 years ago

    Love that dog!

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    charlieanderin
    charlieanderin

    8 years ago

    Soooo adorable I will do this right now

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    imitt12
    imitt12

    9 years ago on Introduction

    wow

    such sushi

    good rice

    oishii

    amaze nori

    wow

    happy hallowens

    gonna be on "hell's kitchen doge"

    such amaze

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    afcron
    afcron

    9 years ago on Introduction

    Haha the look on that dog's face, a little irritated lol
    Considering the breed is Japanese a sushi costume is really apt

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    RetroTechno
    RetroTechno

    Reply 9 years ago on Introduction

    Just what I was thinking....
    He's saying, "Are you done publicly humiliating me yet?"
    :-D

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    FujimotoRina
    FujimotoRina

    9 years ago on Introduction

    So cute! I wish I had a do because I would totally make this for him. :3

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    jchi
    jchi

    Reply 10 years ago on Introduction

    Shiba Inu, i had one of these dogs before :-)

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    scoochmaroo
    scoochmaroo

    10 years ago on Step 1

    Very sweet. It would be great to use the final picture as your main image too so people will see it in the recent feed!