DOG TIER EARS TUTORIAL
Howdy y’all!! Here’s my tutorial for simple dog ears~~ ;u;
What you’ll need:
- Choice fabrics (this works better with thicker fabrics such as fleece, furs, plush & velboa but thin should work just as well, just aim for some that are soft!)
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
- Pipe cleaners (yes they are godsend in my book aha)
so here are the dimensions! Going from
left to right it reads:
4 inches or 10.5 cm
5 1/8 inches or 13 cm for the thin line
4 1/4 inches or 10.8 cm at the bottom
You can change them up if you prefer to accommodate yourself~
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Step 1: Cut your fabric in the dimensions above make sure to make a Right ear as well since the dimensions above are for a Left ear all you really have to do is reverse the pattern or the piece you’ve already cut!
Make sure to draw the shape on the Wrong side of the fabric!! So later when you glue them, you glue them wrong sides together!!
Step 2: Take 2 or 3 pipe cleaners depending on the thickness of your fabric and its ability to hold itself up. (I used 2 since I used fur and fleece which held up pretty well also because it was made last minute aha!)
For 2 you would bend them like so (ignore that I put 3 aha):
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After that you would place it on the the wrong side of the back fabric and hot glue it down. Make sure to leave a 1/8 inch to half a cm from the edge! Hot glue it down on all 3 pipe cleaners then quickly place the top on and sandwich that little bugger!
(I chose these sparkly silver pipe cleaners because I thought it would hold better onto the fabric and wig! But use what you have/like by all means~ If it ends up being too short/long on the ends for your preferences you can always add or subtract the pipe cleaner by twisting on some more or cutting some off!)
For 3 just add another pipe cleaner like so:
Once you have that it should look like this! 8D If there is too much pipe cleaner showing just touch up the sides to seal it all in with hot glue~~ edit* Additional fuzzy inside part optional! (I just took the scrap fur I cut and glued that on too!)
Now, how to place these on your wig! This is where you put on your wig and figure out where you want the ear to be placed. Once you have figured out where you want all 3 points to go on the wig try to figure out where those points are inside of your wig! There’s a lot of fumbling around involved here and your wig can get in the way but you can maybe clip or tie it to help you! Patience!! 8DD
It should look sort of like this!
Try to part the hair where you want to stick the pipe cleaner in!
Once you have it through one line of the wig loop it as shown!
If it’s in the mesh area just poke it through and form a circle and bend it flat down~
Then it should end up looking like this! Now turn it inside out and…
TA DAAA~~~~ You’ve gained Dog Tier !! 8DD
NOW ===> GO OFF AND BE A DOG, JADE.
@tired-tortured-barista
