How to Cut and Sew Fake Fur
Pick your scissors.,Lay the fake fur on a flat surface with the fur down and the backing up, Have the scissors opened slightly, and slide the tip of the scissors into the fur so that you will only cut the backing, and not the fur itself., Pin it...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Pick your scissors.
Unlike most fabrics, you don't want large scissors.
Instead use small, thin scissors.
Embroidery scissors are great, but toenail scissors should work fine as well. ,, This is why you need thin scissors.
If you do this correctly, you will get almost no fluff floating around., Use berry pins or glass headed pins, not ordinary pins, so they won't get lost in the fur., Use lots of pins, about 5cm (2 inches) is a good distance between pins
- too far between, and the fur is likely to be caught in the seam., If you are using a sewing machine, the tip of the pin should almost touch the machine's foot before you remove the pin.
But make sure you don't actually sew the pin. -
Step 2: Lay the fake fur on a flat surface with the fur down and the backing up
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Step 3: Have the scissors opened slightly
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Step 4: and slide the tip of the scissors into the fur so that you will only cut the backing
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Step 5: and not the fur itself.
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Step 6: Pin it first.
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Step 7: Push the fur away from the edges you will be sewing
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Step 8: and pin it so that the fur is kept away from the seam.
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Step 9: Keep the pins in until you are about to sew that section of fur.
Detailed Guide
Unlike most fabrics, you don't want large scissors.
Instead use small, thin scissors.
Embroidery scissors are great, but toenail scissors should work fine as well. ,, This is why you need thin scissors.
If you do this correctly, you will get almost no fluff floating around., Use berry pins or glass headed pins, not ordinary pins, so they won't get lost in the fur., Use lots of pins, about 5cm (2 inches) is a good distance between pins
- too far between, and the fur is likely to be caught in the seam., If you are using a sewing machine, the tip of the pin should almost touch the machine's foot before you remove the pin.
But make sure you don't actually sew the pin.
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