Discord Cosplay Part 4 - Pants

This post is how I made my tail for my Discord costume. I couldn't find any good tutorials so I had to kind of improvise. I made a tutorial but it may be a little hard to read so I will explain how I made it anyway.

Here is the tutorial, I hope it helps

I'll try to explain it anyway in case the tutorial isn't clear.
For the tail I used:
- A fishing rod
- Wool for the inside
- Wool for the fluff
- Fabric
- Hot glue
- Needle and thread (matching fabric)
- Elastic 1 inch wide
- Side release belt buckle
- Pillow stuffing

I bought a $7 fishing rod from K-mart and took it a part keeping the top half. I took of all of the rings that hold the string accept the one and the tip (in order to keep some thickness at the end). I then french knitted with some orange wool so that it was the length of the fishing rod pole. For people who may not know how to french knit I'll link a tutorial here - French Knitting Tutorial I then slipped this onto the pole and secured the ends with hot glue, so that it would not fall off. I made the tuff on the end of the tail by brushing out wool and straightening it was a hot straightener. I'll link the tutorial I used on how to make these. I learned it from a Yarn tail tutorial - Yarn Tail Part 1, Yarn Tail Part 2 I then sewed all the fluffs onto the french knitted sleeve until I was happy with how fluffy and high it was. By now I had something that looked a little like step 4.

Next I cut fabric in a triangle the length of what was left of my fishing rod making sure to cut on the fold so that it would open as one large piece.

These are pictures taken from a Tail Tutorial made by CanineHybrid

I then hand sewed the two edges together using a blanket stitch. I don't have any photos but it is easy to just look up on Google and there will be clear tutorials. I used this stitch because it is easy and very sturdy and I cut my fabric without leaving any room for seam allowance, it just made it look neater.

This picture shows how I neatened off the end by tucking in the raw edges and doing a normal stitch just to finish it off.

I then hot glued the fabric onto the fishing rod, starting with the fabric inside out and gluing it wrong sides together (pulling it right side out as I went). I made sure that I was gluing the opposite site to the stitching, this made the fabric look like it had a spine/bone underneath. Make sure to glue quite a bit around the end where the fluff is so that it is closed completely.

Then I stuffed it with toy stuffing and sewed up the top. I measured the elastic a little shorter than my waist to compensate for the buckle and so that it didn't sag, hot glued the elastic to the flat top of my fabric (and I hand sewed it for extra security). The final touch was hand sewing the buckle on and it was done!

My next post will be on how I made the gloves.