DIY for Ostomy Bag Cover

Sometimes wearing an ostomy bag may cause skin displeasure and discretion but these issues can be resolved by DIY of ostomy bag cover. In this project, you can choose any color of your choice and this project uses soft fabric. It will take your two hours and interposed sewing skills to make this. A vital advantage of sewing your cover is it fit perfectly to your size as you make it by yourself. Instructions are given below that will guide you on how to make an ostomy bag cover for any size and shape.

Tip

If you have a belt, join snaps to the back of the bag cover and the belt to hold the bag cover in a spot. Also, think about creating a tube of material to cover the belt and join the bag cover.

All You'll Need

Equipment / Tools

• Marking tools

• An ostomy bag to trace

• Scissors

• Measuring tape

• Iron and ironing board

• Pins

• Sewing machine

Materials

• Paper or other pattern-making material

• A fabric that has made of silk is optional for the second layer of the front portion

• Double-fold bias tape

• Matching thread

Instructions

1: Firstly you need to make a pattern for the ostomy bag cover

Construction of front design:

First of all, if you are using impoverish pouch, keep the bag leveled, close the bag, and trace the border onto your paper. Attach 1/2 inch to the whole border of the tracing. Also, trace the rim opening, and put on 1/8 inch to the external border of the traced opening.

Cut out the design section around the external border only. Don’t cut the rim opening, you need to use this marking to make the back-design section as well.

Construction of back design:

Trace the external border of the front design. Calculate 2 inches from the bottom border, then draw out a line across the design section. Modify the calculation if suitable for your bag. You will need plenty of fabric to make the bottom of the bag, with an opening that’s sufficient to the drain so you can have it without detaching the whole cover. The line should be over the drain part of the bag. Cut out the design chunk on the line you made.

Trace both these chunks onto the paper. Put in 1 ½ inch to the freshly created line area of the design. Join the new line to the design sections, keeping the body intact by tracing the border of the actual design chunk to the recent line.

Trace the rim opening onto the top back design piece. Cut out the opening.

Bend the length of each design section in half, aligning the borders. Draw a linear line on to fold. You will use these fold lines as your grain lines to layout the design sections

Now separate the design Pieces

Expand the material level in one layer. Lean on the material if needed.

Lineup the design sections, utilizing the selected grain lines to keep the material grain leveled. Nail the design sections in place, and then separate them. Separate the rim opening by tracing it or by utilizing the design as an adviser.

Stitch the Flange Opening

Balance the border of the flange opening by sewing enough to the corner or by sewing like a zigzag corner of the opening.

You need to encircle the flange opening with double folded tape. Gather the end as you come to where you have started the stitching and enclose the initial point with the folded end of the tape. Maybe you want to hand baste the bias tape in place before machine stitching. The tiny the flange opening is, the more cooperative it is to baste first.