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Making Fursuit Hair Puffs

Hair puffs are the most common type of fursuit hair. They're the easiest to make as well! This method works best when you plan in advance and add the puff when you are in the middle of furring, before you have any fur glued on but the back of the head is all sewn.

You will need:

  • Faux fur
  • Needle and thread
  • Poly-fil stuffing
  • Your fursuit head, ideally in the middle of being furred

Table of Contents:

Main Puff

Begin by drawing a banana-like pattern on a sheet of paper. Treat any color changes like markings.

Notice the two curves on the bottom of the banana shape. The curve on the left will be the opening for the tuft, where it will sit on the fursuit head. The curve on the right is purely for aesthetics.

Paper template of a hair puff

Cut the fur, with one half flipped, and sew any markings.

Two halves of a hair puff cut out of fur, fur backing side up

Clip and sew.

Hair puff clipped and ready to be sewn

That's the main portion of the puff done!

Spikey Bits (optional)


These are optional little pieces of fur that add more definition and spikiness to your hair. To make them, cut small rectangles out of faux fur.

Small rectangle cut out of fur

If you want a piece that protrudes a bit at the end, cut a house-like pentagon shape as shown below:

Drawing of a house-shaped pentagon

You can control how much protrusion you'd like by making the top sides longer or shorter. You can even make a shape like this for an even gentler curve with no protrusion:

Concave pentagon

Fold the top edge of the rectangle, or the top sides of the pentagon, to itself, like shown below:

Tent-like shape of faux fur

Cut a slit in your hair puff that is as long as the bottom edge of your shape.

Bottom of faux fur piece aligned with slit on hair puff

Pin and sew it in, so that it is sticking out and the tip is facing the tip of the hair puff.

Clipped puff

Sew the very tip down to the hair puff. You can sew the sides down if you'd like, but this is not necessary. Repeat for as many spikey bits as you'd like.

Rightside-out puff with the spikey bit visible

Stuff your hair puff with poly-fil.

Stuffing shown inside hair puff

Installation

This tutorial assumes you are in the middle of furring your fursuit head. If you are adding a hair puff to an existing fursuit head, or you already finished gluing your fur down, you can adapt this method by pinning the puff down to the head and sewing externally, or closing the opening and ladder stitching it.

Measure the perimeter of the opening of your hair puff. I think one half of mine was roughly 14 cm.

Using a measuring tape around the perimeter of the hair puff

Use this measurement to trace where the hair puff will go on the back of your fursuit head.

Traced landing zone for the hair puff

Cut it out and clip the pieces together.

Clipped hair puff in that landing zone

Sew. I used a blanket stitch.

Sewn and installed hair puff

Pin a piece of fabric (I used felt, but you can use anything. Neoprene or lycra would work great) that is slightly bigger than the hole. This is to prevent the poly-fil from coming out.

Felt pinned over exposed stuffing

Handsew around the perimeter. Again, I used a blanket stitch.

Sewn felt over hair puff opening

All done! Your hair puff is now on super securely, and it looks super cute too!

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