Mask Tutorial Part 2

Mask tutorial part 2

Equipment: glue gun, scissors, mask base, fur or another material you want to use.

Step 1: cut a piece of your fabric slightly bigger than the muzzle and cut a small square out of the end, like we did when making the muzzle for the mask base

Step 2: start glueing the fur to the muzzle. Start where the muzzle meets the flat bit, then work along the edges, folding the fur under the edges

(sorry for the bad pictures)

You may have extra flaps you need to cut off like the one above that I ended up with

Muzzle finished! You can see I left a gap, that's because I'm going to attach a plastic nose later and this just makes it easier to stick on.

Step 3: attach the ties / elastic. Poke it through the base, tie it, you can glue the tied end down if you want. Do this on both sides. Please don't be an idiot like me and forget until you've glued half the face fur down... 🤦

Step 4: cut the fur for the rest of the base. Cut/ trace around the base, leaving some overlap. Make sure to cut around the triangle for the nose too, or it won't fit around the muzzle properly.

Lay it on top of the mask and cut the nose bit to fit around the muzzle nicely.

Step 5: glue the fabric to the base! (Yes we will cut the eyes out but that comes later) Start at the muzzle and glue around the edges, folding the edges over to the inside of the mask.

Step 6: cut out the eyes. Make sure there is no fur going in your eyes, and if there is, trim that fur. Then if you haven't already, glue around the eyes but DO NOT FOLD THE EDGES INSIDE THE MASK. It puts fur in your eyes. Not comfy.

I'll do another post with the finished thing, but I can't add any more images

Bshsydhshshd I'm annoyed I don't actually have a muzzle cos my muzzle's a bit itchy and I really need to scratch it!

Anyway I've had a good and quite canine day. Someone outside my friendship group noticed my bone chew toy and seems to be accepting! I guess we'll see next week though.

wooo we gotta love getting barked at in class…

Apparently I'm not allowed to wear my dog bone because it's too obvious and goes against jewelry rules???

Yes I am allowed a smaller chew toy, but it's not the same, it's not gear.

And now the haters are going to think they've won.

Kinda vent ig?

No part of this body is my own

Despite all the years I've lived in this body, it still doesn't feel like me, and I don't think it ever will

I'm not the right species. I'm not the right gender. Where is my fur? My paws? My ears and tail? Why do I not have a flat chest? Why do I not even smell right, the one sense that I used to be able to depend on?

This body isn't right. This society doesn't accept me.

Why can't I just go home? To the forest, to the snow covered pine trees, to the joy of bringing the pack a new kill?

Home to the wooden floors, the warm bed by the fireside, the human who could scratch just the right place behind my ears?

I just want to go home.

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