My First DIY Full Mask Sporran

[marvelredneck]

I believe a tutorial is in order.

[Mickey]

Thanks guys. I hoped it might make somebody chuckle a little and have a better day. It has been amusing me to no end all day.

Hadn't seen Cookie Monster until now. That's pretty great! Thanks for the link.

For a tutorial, it is very similar to Cookie Monster:

I cut the front of the neck and removed the stuffing from the body, turned inside out, cut the legs and arms along their seams, then sewed up the legs. For a fat bear he was a bit of a pencil neck so sewing up arm holes wouldn't have left enough room to get inside the body when complete.




Leaving armholes open to the neck, I sewed some elastic bands over them from the inside.




Armholes from the outside. Needs some work.




I cut some oversized patches from one of the legs and sewed them over the armholes to cover the elastic (leaving room to expand) and added half of the magnetic clasp to the body.




View from the inside. For the clasp, just pushed it through, put on the washer and bent the tabs over with pliers. Also hemmed the top.




The other half was attached the same way under the chin. Body half is folded over to show the inside for another view of the attachment.




Sewed on a couple of D-rings to the head. Took some planning to get it to lay the way I wanted it.




And that was it. I cut a piece of thin poster board as an insert just to keep his shape, but not sure it really needs it.



The whole thing took maybe about 2 hours, and that was with a lot of overthinking and some rework here and there. Was actually quite fun, plus the bonus of some good practice for making a real fur sporran, especially in the areas of sewing something with hair/fur on the outside. And the whole family still chuckles when they look at it.