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Ok, so it’s not the fabric I was originally intending on using to make a bat, but the pattern is one of my ‘Nine to Try<\/a>‘ for this year and after my original idea for the fabric proved a flop, I couldn’t resist trying to make a furry bat instead.<\/p>\n

First things first, fake fur is a thick fabric. My machine can happily sew two layers together, but once you get to four layers…. yeah, there’s a lot of hand-cranking to get that sewn. In the end, I resorted to hand stitching a lot of the seams, which I do try to avoid with fake fur, as it’s quite challenging to see the fabric backing through the fur pile.<\/p>\n

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I chose to not make the feet – there was no way the fur would turn out easily for such an intricate shape, and sewing them into the seam would have ended up as a total nightmare. But other than that, so far the bat follows the pattern!<\/p>\n

Batty is now stuffed, with some plastic pellets in his body to help him stand on the shelf (as a lack of feet mean he’d be prone to falling over otherwise), and just needs the final bit of hand sewing to get his body and head permanently attached!<\/p>\n

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Bat Pattern: BeeZeeArt<\/a>
\nFaux Fur: Fashion Fabrics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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