To make the bow, take a 10 in x 10 in piece of fabric (I used lovely green and red plaid), fold it over in thirds, and then sew the edge. Adjust the tube so that seam you have just sewn is in the middle and then fold it in half and sew the end. Adjust the smaller tube so that the seam is in the middle again, now you will have a small rectangle with no raw edges or seams showing on the front side. Take a small strip of the same fabric about an inch wide, fold over the raw edges and sew to create the strip to hold the the bow down. Wrap the finished strip around the rectangle of fabric to compress the middle to create the bow, make adjustments as needed. Sew the strip of fabric in the back to hold the bow together, this needs to be as tight as possible so they bow won't shift. Trim off an extra part of the strip. Now for the "collar" portion, I used Bubba's current collar for the size and created a finished 1/2 inch strip of fabric about 1 inch longer than his collar. To attach the strip to the bow, I fed it throw the strip that was used to compress the bow. To create the labels, I took two pieces of white fabric (size depends on how big your collar needs to be) and created them the same way I created the initial rectangle for the bow. Then with a hot iron I folded over and pressed the rectangles for the lapels, then sewed it to the plaid collar strip and it was done. I didn't have an velcro at home last night, so I had to tape it on Bubba last night. Forgive me for the pictures, the hardest part about working with Bubba is getting him to hold still, the pictures aren't the greatest but you get the idea.
I will try to take pictures again once I make Annie a Christmas outfit as well and of course hers will include ruffles!
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