Fursuit (some assembly required)
Monday night (Mar 11) I finished marking out all the fursuit body pieces (4 front and back panels, 4 sleeve front and back pieces). I then set out to cut them all out (sans seam allowance, as marked). The best way to do this is from the back with a sharp blade, cutting just through the knit backing, as that avoids clipping any of the fur pile. This not only reduces dramatically the amount of shedding during the process, but makes the seams less visible because there isn’t a line of accidentally shortened pile along the seam.
I also learned how much easier this process is if you put a fresh blade in the Xacto knife handle 🙂
The photo shows how clean those edges turn out.
