One thing that's eluded me is how to do a stitch when you have two pieces of fur showing and you need to stitch them together, but with the backing inaccessable. I've heard there was a kind of stitch that could be done that still hides the backing of the fabric and has the stitch be invisible. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:


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I've looked through the memories and I've seen people discuss plastic, clay, and resin claws, but not really soft ones, particularly with something like marine vinyl, which is what I'm attempting to work with.
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Hello again! So basically my body suit was like 80% machine sewn and 20% hand sewn.


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Hi there!
I'm working on an all-fleece pokemon suit soon (well, all fleece except for the mane, which I'm using faux rabbit fur for) and I was wondering if anybody had any tips are far as how to make it all look clean?
This is the pokemon:

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Hello! I'm new to posting in this community (along with being new to LJ in general), but I've been using this site for a while to get help making my costumes, even though my first one turned out pretty crappy. I learned a lot from screwing that thing up, though ( Read more... )

When I sew I push the fur back for a clean sew and use a straight stitch. But it has an odd appearance. Anyone know what's wrong with it ( Read more... )

So I recently started working on my first mask I ever attempted (which has remained unfinished til now). I've torn this thing apart and put it back together as best I could (a few times, mostly adjusting the foam shape). With the darker blue fleece (kinda flat-looking, not really any "fuzz-ness" to it), I have found it hard to hide the seams. The ( Read more... )

The title says it all : )
Which stitch do you think is best for hand sewing fur? I tried looking it up but from the looks of some stitches I didn't think they would work as well as they say.

So since I have almost 0 sewing experiences I went through the memories section here. I noticed some sew by hand and some by machine and a bit arguin back and forth about which was better etc.

Most of the hand sewers chose something calles a "blanket stitch" So I searched it up.

http://www.futuregirl.com/craft_blog/2007/09/tutorial-hand-sew-felt.aspx

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