Sweet new staff covers
Unsatisfied with the availability of red+black fuzzy staff covers on the market, I recently constructed some staff covers for my new contact fire staff from Dark Monk. This was my first sewing project, and I couldn’t have done it without my friend Casie. Thanks Casie!
As shown below, my idea was to make a fuzzy staff cover in a bottle shape my attaching three pieces of fabric together along with a zipper.
Here’s a quick sketch of how I imagined constructing the staff covers, out of the three pieces shown in the middle. The spikes on the staff head are supposed to be fur, not fire lol.
Based on this idea, I constructed the following pattern, which consists of a circle shape and a shape like a rectangle connected to a letter C. I used a SolidWorks drawing in order to get the geometry of the cone correct. After I printed out the pattern, I added a half inch of seam allowance (extra material for the seam) by hand, but I realize I could have added this to my Solidworks drawing as well.
I printed and cut out the above pattern to use to cut my material.
After creating this pattern, I used it to cut my material, which was a piece of red and black fuzzy fabric. I also cut a piece of flat black fabric in the same shapes to be used as an inside lining. Then, I basted (fastened loosely with thread) these two fabrics together to create a single circle-shape and a single rectangle-plus-C shape of double-layered fabric.
When I was cutting the material, I accidentally cut it with the fur laying in the wrong direction once and had to re-do it for one of my covers.
Next I followed the sewing process shown in the following picture:
1. sew the edges of the C shape to the rectangle
2. with the lining facing outward, sew in the zipper, connecting the two short sides of the rectangle
3. sew on the circle piece to opening at the top
4. (not pictured) flip the piece so that it’s no longer inside-out
Above is pictured an overview of the order in which I sewed each seam.
Here’s the final result!
Here’s one head with a fuzzy staff cover.
As you can see, the zipper works great and it also nearly invisible in the fur when zipped closed.
And here’s a video of me doing a Steve because, you know, that’s the only trick i know.