Fox Scarves Are To Die For!

I waited till almost the last minute to do them for the Country Cellar this week. Literally the night before, at 9pm.  I did get 3 fox and 2 wolf scarfs done and the head for one more fox.  It was a learn as you go type of thing for the face, but they didn't need stuffing in the head after all. 

 

The tail tip was easy to do, and came out great.  The body is just a tube with sewing up both edges to keep it laying flat (it is VERY warm to wear!).  The heads were done as a separate piece.  I cut a basic outline out first with 2 layers of the body color. Cut white out for the bottom 3/4ths of the face, marked where the sewing lines should be with a marker and sewed up inside the marked lines. Trimmed that off all around the white.  Then did ears, quick sewed them in place at the top. Then cut the overlay face piece that was the same color as the body - only I'd run out of enough red fleece to do that with so I went with red felt which actually kept the lines cleaner. 

 

The eyes were a circle of black felt tucked halfway under the brow, a circle of yellow felt for the eye color, and a smaller circle of black felt for the pupil. Half of each was tucked under the head piece so they looked like they were frowning or intensely staring.  Sew over it and around, hiding the part where the ears were attached. Trim, sew a white seed bead to each pupil for 'highlight' and then machine sew across the top of the head to attach it to the bottom of the scarf end.  Hand stitch on the back side to finish attaching the loose scarf end piece, and DONE! 

 

It took, start to finish, about 20 minutes per scarf.  I used bright leaf green felt for the wolf eyes, and changed all the red body color to gray.  The body was a flat piece cut 11" across, for the full length up the fold and back, so you can get 3 bodies out of just under a yard of fabric. Fold the length in half the short way, sew up, attach the white tail tip piece, turn, and counter sew along both edges to lay it flat. The white tail tip meant changing out the thread color to white to finish that part, while the white was in I did the inner ears (ears were black with white insides) and the face part.

 

The standard length was about 60" when completed.  I did have to tack the ear tips down to the scarf to keep them from going forward. 

 

But I'm REAL pleased with how they turned out!  This is one I'd like to sell the pattern on.  Any intermediate sewer could do it. Might be a little too complex for a total beginner.  With getting the fabric on sale, I think each cost me maybe $2 in materials. No stuffing is needed.