#bug tail

[klowncoreish]

HE’S BACK!!! extremely proud of the shading, messed up on the coloured lineart,,

thought the blue would look better than it being green… without testing it first💔

I rlly should open watercolour k0mms..

[brella-boi]

Building Dango: Part 17

We are... so close to the finish line now. Just a little more.

Let's finish off the tail.

To make an invisible belt loop I'll be using this tutorial.

Essentially it is cutting two pieces of EVA foam in the shape you need, one with a slip in part cutaway, a tube of fabric that goes through the holes between the eva foam, and then your top part pattern.

I'm opting for a raw meat pattern that I always thought looked super super cool!

The meaty bits are sewn onto the dark teal using applique, as well as the bone part. The underneath teal is then cut away, as well as slits in the blue where the hidden belt loop is.

Then you just cut off the excess from applique and you have yourself a pattern!

You then hot glue the pieces together (space left over for the belt strip to wiggle in, carefully ladder stitch the edges of the belt strip into your appliqued fabric slits, and then sew the tail shut into the edges of your seam allowance of the tail itself.

Now for the pincers and feet, it was pretty straight forward, the same as with the hand claws. The pincers have upholstery foam in them, and the feet are just stuffed. I then ladder stitched them on once it was all together.

And MAN am I HAPPY with the tail. A thicker belt loop keeps the tail nice and snug eveb though its got a little bit of weight to it.

I definitely want to make a bigger version of this year, but Ill have to figure out a way to store it easily. Perhaps have it be inflatable :)

And weRE ALMOST DONE NOW!!!!

Now just to fix the ears and then I can get some nice photos..... aughhhhhh

[brella-boi]

Building Dango: Part 16

Lets get to building the tail!!!

No we already made a prototype earlier from foam, we have a perfectly ready pattern to do this in about 2 days.

The colourway is purple > blue > teal > green with a golden accent. We will also use the red leather for pincers and 'legs'.

I will be using craft foam as the sturdy base for the shell parts, and we already have the pincers carved out of 1in foam. So this is gonna be smooth sailing.

You've seen me cut fabric before so I won't bore you with it again. Everything's sewed up on the machine now! How nice and easy and straightforward.

Now we shove the craft foam into the shells, and blanket stitch them shut so that the foam is in there securely. At first I thought id have to hot glue the fabric down to the foam but honestly Im fine with not doing that at all.

Nice and sturdy!

Now to sew the fluffy underside. Which. Well it was a challenge now that the foam was in. I couldn't exactly invert the fabric now and put it under the machine. Looking back I probably should've put the foam in last LOL. So I did the portion I could on it and the rest I blanket stitched together- remember blanket stitches dont need a massive seam allowance, they're actually stronger with less of it! I usually go for 5mm.

I always have some error to my sewing though, especially as the dart came out a little wonky on the fluffy bit with the way it slips around, So i had to sew an extra bit on to completely close up the sides. I got plenty of scraps though so they come in handy. And its long fur so its not gonna be seen.

And now we just have a triangular hole left.

Check it out stuffed!

Next update because I only have a 10 image limit: making the tail have an invisible buckle strap.