Hey everyone,
I've been searching around online and I can't seem to find the information I'm seeking. Hopefully I haven't missed something in Memories or Tags, so I apologize if this has been asked before.
I found this wonderful post about how to deal with turning skinny tails inside out:
http://fursuit.livejournal.com/6252456.html
Since I was having a major brain fart yesterday, I wasn't sure how to go about it and slowly started confusing myself. I've been making my dragosaur fursona, and I've pretty much finished the tail, was stitching the whole thing closed, inside out, and had the large poofy tail stub attached to the end of the tail as well.
After I was finished and started turning things inside out, I realized how big I had derped, as there was no way the large tail tip could be pushed through the narrow base of the tail tip, let alone the skinny base of the tail itself. I ended up struggling with it for a while and I had to just remove the tail tip from the tail, so they're now 2 individual parts.
This is only the second time I've ever created a tail, the first being an easy one without a tail tip! What I've done in the past with my plush critter creation tests is that if the base of the tail, and the base of the tail tip, had a large enough opening, it could easily be pushed inside out. Meaning there was no need to create the tail and the tail tip separately.
But because my current tail has more of a Christmas lightbulb shape, where it's small at the base and tapers upwards, I couldn't for the life of me, push it through.
It's basically in the shape of this other fursuiter's tail. I ended up sending them a note to see if they could offer any advice, but I figured I would toss this up here as well.
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I'm just baffled at whether I'm missing something very simple on how to go about turning these things inside out, or if I do indeed have to just stitch them together after both pieces are fully created. And whether I should be trying to do a hidden stitch, which can be difficult if the fur is so long pile, or if I should just simply stitch the pieces together, with the long fur hiding the small seam.
Also, this was probably stupid, but because of my logic where I thought I wouldn't have a problem, the tail tip already contained some stuffing. If I gave it another go, I'm sure it would make a difference without the stuffing in there, but with all that long pile fur to begin with, I'm still certain I'd be struggling to try and push it through such small quarters.
And just another note, to fix this issue would it be reasonable to just have made/to make in the future, the base of the tail and the base of the tail tip, wider? To avoid this sort of issue from happening?
Thanks so much to anyone who can help!
~Rainedeer
EDIT: Also was just brainstorming and not sure if this is a feasible way, but if I stitch the whole tail inside out like usual, but instead, would it work if I stitched the tail tip individually and then placed that *inside* the skinny end of the tail right away. Then stitch the ends of the tail to the tail tip...so when turning the whole tail right side out, the tail tip would already be pushed through? And I could just grab it and pull the whole tail right side out? Wow, does that make any sense? xP
I've been searching around online and I can't seem to find the information I'm seeking. Hopefully I haven't missed something in Memories or Tags, so I apologize if this has been asked before.
I found this wonderful post about how to deal with turning skinny tails inside out:
http://fursuit.livejournal.com/6252456.html
Since I was having a major brain fart yesterday, I wasn't sure how to go about it and slowly started confusing myself. I've been making my dragosaur fursona, and I've pretty much finished the tail, was stitching the whole thing closed, inside out, and had the large poofy tail stub attached to the end of the tail as well.
After I was finished and started turning things inside out, I realized how big I had derped, as there was no way the large tail tip could be pushed through the narrow base of the tail tip, let alone the skinny base of the tail itself. I ended up struggling with it for a while and I had to just remove the tail tip from the tail, so they're now 2 individual parts.
This is only the second time I've ever created a tail, the first being an easy one without a tail tip! What I've done in the past with my plush critter creation tests is that if the base of the tail, and the base of the tail tip, had a large enough opening, it could easily be pushed inside out. Meaning there was no need to create the tail and the tail tip separately.
But because my current tail has more of a Christmas lightbulb shape, where it's small at the base and tapers upwards, I couldn't for the life of me, push it through.
It's basically in the shape of this other fursuiter's tail. I ended up sending them a note to see if they could offer any advice, but I figured I would toss this up here as well.
I'm just baffled at whether I'm missing something very simple on how to go about turning these things inside out, or if I do indeed have to just stitch them together after both pieces are fully created. And whether I should be trying to do a hidden stitch, which can be difficult if the fur is so long pile, or if I should just simply stitch the pieces together, with the long fur hiding the small seam.
Also, this was probably stupid, but because of my logic where I thought I wouldn't have a problem, the tail tip already contained some stuffing. If I gave it another go, I'm sure it would make a difference without the stuffing in there, but with all that long pile fur to begin with, I'm still certain I'd be struggling to try and push it through such small quarters.
And just another note, to fix this issue would it be reasonable to just have made/to make in the future, the base of the tail and the base of the tail tip, wider? To avoid this sort of issue from happening?
Thanks so much to anyone who can help!
~Rainedeer
EDIT: Also was just brainstorming and not sure if this is a feasible way, but if I stitch the whole tail inside out like usual, but instead, would it work if I stitched the tail tip individually and then placed that *inside* the skinny end of the tail right away. Then stitch the ends of the tail to the tail tip...so when turning the whole tail right side out, the tail tip would already be pushed through? And I could just grab it and pull the whole tail right side out? Wow, does that make any sense? xP