If only my turnaround time on all my projects was this quick! R and I bought the materials for new crate pads for the dogs last Thursday and here on Tuesday they are all the way done. The mattresses are convoluted foam (cut from a double-szie mattress pad) and the top is a lovely white sherpa knit furry chenille thing. The backs are ultrasuede, R picked the colors: "blue for Mar-wee and purple for Morgle." (sic) It's been a while since I've done a zipper and the first one took me two tries, but the second one went in easy enough. The two fabrics were quite dissimilar and the white knit stretched the first time I sewed the top and bottom together, but then I ripped and flipped so I was sewing with the ultrasuede on top and they came out OK. I did a lot of ripping for such a simple project, but part of that was just getting warmed up again after not having sewn in so long.
Here's a shot of the materials for a pad:
and one of us trying it out:
It's very comfortable. As I had hoped, the good foam gives quite a bit of cushioning and is breatheable, and the knit top was worth the $9 a yard cost as it doesn't detract from the texture of the foam and is a nice surface for the dogs to lie on. I did prewash the ultrasuede and it didn't run, so hopefully these will be nicely machine washable. The dogs seem to really like them, they've been playing musical crates testing them out.
In other news, I finished the other front on the baby cardigan and am onto a sleeve...
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