The biggest annoyance  when creating with faux fur is getting flyaway hairy bits in your mouth! So here are a few tips and tricks to try to minimize the amount of fur flying around your workspace.

To stop having fur bits flying all over your house when you cut your fabric you need to….

  • trace the pattern piece
  • don’t cut more than one fur layer at a time
  • try to only cut through the back layer and not the pile (which is the fur layer), this requires poking the tip of your scissors into the pile and making tiny cuts
  • gently pull pieces apart and the long fur will still be attached right up to the side of your cut (and therefore not flying around your workspace

To sew two pieces together so the long fur doesn’t get trapped into the seam you need to….

  • finger comb the fur so it is going into the middle of your cut piece – away from the cut edge, that way when you sew the cut edge the fur won’t get caught
  • use pins! Pinning the two pieces together after finger combing the fur into the centre means the fur will be more likely to stay inside your two pieces and not get caught in the seam as you sew.