Dog Beds From Old Bedspread and Pillows

Simple DIY ultra-plush dog bed from old bedspread and pillows.

Jess and I cleaned out one of the closets and found that we had a couple of pillows and a bedspread that we were no longer using. I really don’t like throwing away usable items so I thought perhaps some dog begs would be the order of the day. After measuring everything out I found I had just enough to do three beds with 3 neck pillows. One for each dog in the office, and one for downstairs near my sewing machine (the floor gets cold down there).

Considering that all of the materials were heading for a landfill, I’d say the project was a huge success.

The fabric is medium weight duck cloth in the Next Geologic Camouflage Pattern. I did a similar set of dog beds using this pattern for their crates about a year back and they have performed and laundered well.

The bed is pretty simple, a padded bottom is attached to a heavily padded ring (for structure). Then a full-width pillow top is inserted into the ring. This makes the bed easy to clean, just pop off the pillow and wash. In the event of an accident, the entire bed can be laundered since it’s cotton with polyfill. Both the pillow top and padded bottom are semi-quilted in 6 places so the fill will not shift even in machine washing.

Size-wise our dogs are medium sized. They weigh around 60 lbs. each and the beds are about 38 x 24 providing more than enough room for them to curl up and get cozy. They are still a little small for stretching out. That being said, Jess proved that there is even enough room for a Jess plus a Muffin with room to spare!

If anyone wants to make one, let me know, I’ll post plans below.