Fly mask tutorial

Hi! I thought that publishing a tutorial with the Totilas post would be a bit too much to read all at once, so I'm going to make this fly mask tutorial separately. It's quite simple!

Things you'll need:
White material (not felt)
Good quality felt or sticky backed felt (ideal)
Scissors
Velcro
Pen
A glue gun or some reliable glue
A model horse of any scale
Let's get started!

1. Take your white material and cut a small square from it.

2. Draw criss cross patterns on it, just like a real fly mask.

3. Flip over your material and draw the pattern below on to it.

4. Cut out the pattern, and cut as carefully as you can.

5. Place the mask on your horse to check it covers their eyes and will fasten under their chin.

6. Cut a long felt strip, as long as you think you'll need for your scale.

7. Measure around the outside of the fly mask.

8. Glue it so the finished result looks like this.

9. Measure around the bottom of the fly mask, where it will wrap around the nose.

10. Glue it so the finished result looks like this.

11. Measure around the poll.

12. Glue it so it looks like this, and that it fits snugly around the poll.

13. Cut a small tab of the fuzzy side of the Velcro and glue it on like this (ignore the other piece of Velcro):

14. Cut a slightly bigger tab of the prickly side of the Velcro and glue it on, but so it faces downwards.

15. And there you go! Your finished fly mask! Put it on your horse and he'll be ready for the flies any time!

Thanks for looking at my blog! I'll be posting more tutorials!