Making Fake Fur (String Method)

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  Step 1

  Find something smooth and flat, I'm using a pressing bar. Tie the string so the knots at the top, just keep wrapping the string around until you get it as long as you want OR until you run out of Bar...

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  Step 2

  If your string has a pattern you can use this pattern to make strips in the fur (that's was my goal.)

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  Step 3

  No start a sewing thread at the beginning of the Bar, I use a "button hole stich"

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  Step 4

  tie off to the top

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  Step 5

  The stich goes under, making a loop

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  Step 6

  you go back throught the loop.

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  Step 7

  Pull it tight. You may want to knot it again.

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  Step 8

  As you move along the Bar, you can slide the threads apart to make it easier to go under them. Make sure you stich each loop of the string, or the Loops can come out of the chain. *just trim them if that happens.

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  Step 9

  The knots should all line up on the edge.

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  Step 10

  after you sew all the way down the Bar, you can slide it off the end, if you want it longer then the bar, son't slide it off all the way start wrapping more and stich that as well, Repeat as desired.

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  Step 11

  The trim does have a spiral to it...

  Its great for going around things like pens, or around a round part of a costume, it bends and shapes like bias tape... *(You could make these chains in diffrent colors and sew them down in cool patterns in stripes...)

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  Step 12

  Here it is wound up.

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  Step 13

  I'm putting a zigzagstich over in red, the chain of hand stiching should hold it so you don't need the tighest stich here.

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  Step 14

  its easy to just untwist it as you go, ever few inches.

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  Step 15

  As you see there are white stripes in my purple... I'm lining this up with the next row of chain.

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  Step 16

  The closer you are together with the rows the fluffier the fur will be.

  Diffrent yarns and even types of Embrodery threads should make diffrent results of fur textures. *I wanted something that had a pattern and show up I've played with yarn, floss, threads You can make diffrent textures.

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  Step 17

  as you can see the white lines line up (ish) this could be a Tiger stripped effect.

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  Step 18

  3rd rwo also almost lined up.

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  Step 19

  *The rows are not perfectly spaced, I don't think they need to be that perfect.

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  Step 20

  You can cut the loops, and that may change the texture a bit Especially if they are made from fibers and will come untwisted and look more fluffy.

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  Step 21

  Close up of the loops

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EstherC · Seattle, Washington, US · 10 projects 18th October 2011

(I think you get quick at it like knitting the second and 3rd were much faster - Also the string I used was just so people could see it was string, doing this with Furry Yarns or Embroidery floss that Frays makes for some awesome fur... If you mix that with the new Fringe Fur I'm doing you can make basically any color you want with any pattern you can think of.

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Bluebee · Francestown, New Hampshire, US · 6 projects 5th October 2011

It seems time consuming, but there are so much possibilities with that technique ! Thanks for sharing !

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