DIY headcover lockdown projects!

[sssam]

It started with really hating the garish headcover on my Yes putter. My wife is pretty handy on the sewing machine, so I thought it couldn't be too hard to unpick the cover, make a pattern and remake the cover in some more amenable fabric. I had some goatskin leather from another project in a nice cognac colour, that'll do nicely. That turned out pretty well, the magnets we used for the closure weren't really strong enough so I augmented with a brass press stud.

 

I started to see some pics of the really nice barrel type leather covers from Mackenzie and others and thought, that can't be hard to make. So after much measuring, testing, and revisiting my high school geometry, I had a pattern for a big long cover for my TS3 driver. Waxed canvas on the sides with a leather cap and some wool fleece lining.

The idea was to make it long enough so that clubs didn't clatter against the shaft - the stock cover was too short.

This aesthetic tied in with a recently revived penchant for persimmon, the stunning little Joe Powell Smoker needed a new home. I didn't want to do full on matchy matchy, so I dug out a moth-eaten old tartan blanket which would serve for the lining and end cap. Same leather skin on the sides. I treated that with some neatsfoot oil so it looks quite dark here but has since lightened to the same colour as the putter cover.

I lined it up so the blanket fringing is trim around the edge of the cover, but I'm not sure I like it or how practical it will be, I may cut them off and edge with fabric in the same method as the other one. This size is also good for a modern metal fairway wood. I'm thinking of a little slimmer one for a hybrid.

Last but not least, another fairway cover. I had some old tweed plus fours I'd bought for a fancy dress thing some years ago. Many months in the loft meant more moth meals, so they were ripe for some more up-cycling.

The knitted cover in the back is also my wife's handiwork!

[numberonecoog]

Mind sharing the pattern for the barrel or your measurements?

[WillyL]

Great job‼️ Looks fantastic.

[sssam]

Sure thing, driver size or fairway?

[numberonecoog]

Fairway. Have a college mascot headcover that will never leave haha

[sssam]

 

End cap - 11.5mm diameter circle, 15mm seam allowance giving 8.5 inner circle.

Barrel - a 30cm square. 15mm seam allowance to sew into a barrel with 27cm circumference. Basically do the same for the lining with some fleece or whatever, then sew them together with a 30x3cm strip around the bottom.

[Bob Cat]

Product looks great. I'm attempting to do the same with imperial measures. I believe your 11.5 dim is actually cm, not mm... yielding the 8.5cm.

Sincerely not trying to nitpick but maybe it will help others attempting this as well.

I'll post my attempt soon, I hope.

[Hammer_Hands]

This is fantastic. You chose great fabrics. Full bag pics?

[DE-ILLINI]

These look fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

[qala89]

Do you still have the pattern for the putter cover? If you still have the measurements it would be even better ?