The difficulty of working with fur is that it is not easy to cut and inconvenient to sew. You cannot cut the fur with scissors, as they will cut off the pile, so the product is cut with a razor blade, which can be inserted into an eraser so as not to cut yourself.
If you decide to use a special knife on a wheel for cutting fur, remember that to use it, you need a rigid backing, preferably chipboard, since strong pressure is required. When working with a blade, cardboard is quite suitable as a substrate, or the cutting will be carried out by weight, which allows you to immediately separate the pile.
If you decide to learn how to sew fur correctly, you need to learn a few guidelines.
When choosing patterns for a future product, remember that small details on the fur are practically invisible, and it will be very difficult to sew them, so give preference to products with a minimum number of details.
Be sure to watch in which direction the pile of the parts is directed. All parts of the product should be laid out so that the direction of the pile is the same. Be careful as sometimes the direction of the pile is implicit.
It is important to remember that the more often you make the stitch lines on the part, the stiffer it will be.
When starting to sew fur, make sure that your sewing machine's foot has the necessary lift for work, otherwise you will not be able to bring the product under the needle. Remember to check this every time, as sometimes it will be necessary to stitch the fur in four folds.
The seams do not need further processing, since the fur is a non-flowing material.
Each time, making a basting and grinding the seams of parts, it is necessary to carefully set the pile inward, it is convenient to do this with small scissors.
Use machine needles of the following sizes: 14/90, 16/100. It is necessary to keep the sewing density within 20-24 stitches per 5 cm. It is advisable to use universal polyester threads, sometimes you can take cotton-polyester threads. When processing a finishing stitch, overcasting of loops, you will need a flexible thread. You need to debug the stitching as for any other dense material, so the pressure of the machine foot and the thread tension must be loosened gradually until the stitching is uniform.
It is better to sew fur in a respirator. If the pile of the fur is short enough, then you can get by with one respirator, and if it is long, then you will need at least two. Thus, following simple advice, you can learn how to make both small and fairly large fur products.
