Darlin, next time use fabric glue: fabric tac or magna tac. works betteer than hot glue for fabrics and is flexible too.

burners and their hot glue guns.........;-)
when I frist came upon the community I freeked! when I discovered burners using hot glue to make their clothing. I'm old school.... = D

I'm with Kitten: in mere minutes I've transformed dull garments into fabuwear with just a bit of fur trim. I bought a motocross jacket and stitched on a fur collar and it's like a whole new thing.

And I don’t stop at clothing. I use double-sided toupee tape (known commercially as Top Stick) to attach fur trim to electronics and other personal items: there's nothing like having your iPod boom box match your outfit! With Top Stick, the fur stays put, and it’s easy to remove with no glue residue left behind.

Now I’m taking my fur obsession one step further and making a white fur slipcover for the large piece of dark brown furniture that holds my TV. As a matching piece, I’m also making five white fur stalactites ranging in length from 3 to 5 feet that will hang from my ceiling above and behind my sofa. Inside each one will be a row of LED lights that I bought at Ikea (Dioder). The Dioder lights have a controller that allows you choose either one of 7 colors, or automatically morph between them. If you’ve seen GlowWear, then you know how cool colored lights look under white fur. It’s a fabulous effect. The fur stalactites will be hung on hooks so they can move in a breeze.

Re: sewing fur and the trouble with seams… there’s a way to sew fur that creates no seams. It’s easier to demonstrate than describe, but I’ll do my best:

You need to use a zigzag stitch and set it to the widest stitch your machine will allow. Then you carefully sew the fur right along the edge so as the needle zigzags left and right, it goes through the fur on the left side, but off the edge of the fur on the right side. That's right: OFF THE EDGE. What you are doing is binding the edge of the fur together, which leaves no seam. This allows you to create intricate three dimensional shapes (like my furry pink spikes) with no bulky seams. Hope that’s understandable!

Re: hot glue and fur… is a match made in heaven, as far as I’m concerned. Since faux fur is really just spun plastic, it fuses it together like nobody’s business and has withstood repeated machine washings (on delicate, using Woolite, cold water only, air dried). Also, if you make a mistake with hot glue and want to separate two things you’ve glued together, do this:

Heat up your glue gun with no glue stick inserted and work the heated metal tip along the glue edge. This will re-melt the glue allowing you to pull the two things apart and try again.

I consider myself extremely fortunate to live in LA, which has a great “fur district” with tons of ever-changing choices. If you love faux fur as much as I do, it’s worth a visit here just to stock up. The intersection of 9th and Maple in downtown is ground zero for furnatics. The salesmen love to haggle, but on a good day I pay $12 a yard, and on an off day as much as $18 a yard. I’d say $14 is the usual price. When I hear of people paying $20 to $30 at commercial vendors like Joann Fabrics, it just breaks my furry heart.

xo Astro

Hell yes! Strategically placing strips of fur on otherwise boring outfits! *bonks forehead with palm* ... Why didn't I think of that?! Honestly, you have saved me from so much overwhelmingness, my wheels are turning in a much more positive direction... and I'm going for the closet. :)

if you use silver Sharpies you can trace on any color, including black. When tracing on white, use yellow.