I'd like to make a sausage dog draught excluder

welovepandas

Hiya,

I can't find a pattern anywhere on the net for a sausage dog draught excluder. I'd like to make one to give as a Christmas present so I need something more than a stuffed sock. Does anyone know of a site with instructions on?

Thanks xx

pandas66

Love your name...............xx

welovepandas

Heehee, yours is good too

lyns_2

http://home.comcast.net/~needlebeetle/sewing/draftstopper.htm

Its only a simple one though

poppielia

Awwww, that takes me back!
My nanna used to make these when i was a little girl, would then let my brother and me decorate them with googly eyes and a smiley face.

Would keep us occupied for ages.
Cant remember though if she did make them out of old socks or not and i cant ask her as she passed away 13 years ago.

Dont ya just love googly eyes?? LOL

greenpixey

Thanks for the link.
I'm in the process of making a draftexcluder for my sister this christmas. In lack of fabric I have cut up a pair of old jeans

Baileys_Babe

greenpixey wrote:

Thanks for the link.
I'm in the process of making a draftexcluder for my sister this christmas. In lack of fabric I have cut up a pair of old jeans

Jeans would be good the tightly woven fabric will help keep out the draft.:D

Ninepurrs

I made one for me a few years ago from a pair of old jeans. I made an improvement on the standard design though. I sewed a channel down the middle before I stuffed it (with 1/2 a poundland pillow), so it can be slid onto the bottom of the door - & tadaa! no more having to keep kicking it into place coz it's already there!:j

bexy43

if you want to cheat..........they are in poundland for ...A POUND! haha

not bad designs either.

culpepper

I think there was talk about making them over on the OS board . They mentioned having them fixed to the bottom of a door so that you could open and close the door without picking up the sausage dog.

CathChat

What about this, its a reindeer but could easily be made into a dog.

I made it last year for my mother and after christmas I swapped the antlers for ears.

http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas%5Flibrary/idea_87.html