Making Piggy Tails

These are the cutest little piggy tushes EVER!! And they were surprisingly easy to create. Let me show you how!

I borrowed the basic idea from Make and Love It so please go over there and see the piggy costume over there as well!

I started with two circles of pink fabric. Sorry for the terrible pictures, that circle doesn't even look pink! You'll have to just trust me that it's pink. Cotton Candy Pink Cotton Lycra actually, from The Fab Clique. It's a beautiful weight to work with and was just perfect for this tail project.

Anyway, two circles of pink fabric. I wasn't sure how long the tails would need to be, so I cut four the size of our plates, they were just smaller salad plates. And two the size of our bowls, also just regular-sized cereal bowls.

Then I drew a spiral on each set of circles. I tried to make a straight beginning and a straight ending spot. But that probably doesn't matter a whole lot because you can just cut a straight spot after the spiral is all cute out. And I did end up shortening the tails a lot! This tracing is on the big circle.

And this is the tail after it's cut out. I believe this one is from the bowl-sized circle. There are two layers of fabric there. The next step is to sew down the length of both sides of the curly tail and then flip them right side out.

Turning the tails took a little more work then I would have liked, but the tails were so cute!! I made a big one and the small one thin and then one of the big ones came out a lot thicker. The thick one didn't work nearly as well as the thin ones, but it was easier to turn! The thickness you use would probably depend on the look you're going for. I wanted more of a corkscrew curl for the tails, so I added some pipe cleaners!

Two pipe cleaners per tail. I was worried about them being poky, so used a bit of hot glue at either end with the pipes twisted in between to keep them together and make them a lot easier to thread into the tails.

After the pipe cleaners were threaded into the tails and the tails were shortened to the length I wanted I found the center back of the pattern, which in this case was the Patterns for Pirates Jolly Roger Raglan, and attached the tail with a clip, I then added the band and made sure the tail was sandwiched between the shirt and the band so the tail would be on the outside of the shirt after it was sewn up.

The placement was perfect! The tail turned out great! And because I added the pipe cleaner the tail was able to stay nice and curly and cute!

This technique can be used to create all kinds of tails! What kind of tail did you need for your costumes for Halloween this year?

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