You were the late-comer? You should have introduced yourself! You do great work and contribute a lot to the fursuit group here on LJ: I love putting faces to names and chatting/talking shop.
I'm glad you got so much out of the talk: I focused more time on NFT this year and I think it worked out better (than the scattershot coverage I used to do). Because of NFT's high cost, I would hate to have someone break the bank to buy it, and then be terribly disappointed when it wasn't what they thought it would be.
Yeah-- unless you're making a million plush or an army of a type of mascot, it's almost impossible to consider the minimums of the commercial fur mills. One possibility is to work with a distributor like Monterey Mills: some people on the list did this a few years ago with the red fox fur and that got the minimum down to a few hundred yards, which was do-able. Who knows? With the world economy the way it is, maybe they'd consider lower runs.
Sorry about that. I didn't want to disrupt your class. I cane up afterwards, but you were constantly engaged, and then you had to run out the door. We'll catch up soon.
If we can get down to several hundred yards, we could totally do that. Our last production project required 10 rolls of fleece, so we're getting pretty close to this already. Then again, we're making those huge kigurumi suits, so they eat up a lot of fabric.
We're actually going to be exhibiting at WonderCon, booth 221. If you have the time, please come say hi.
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Date: 2009-02-15 06:10 pm (UTC)You were the late-comer? You should have introduced yourself! You do great work and contribute a lot to the fursuit group here on LJ: I love putting faces to names and chatting/talking shop.
I'm glad you got so much out of the talk: I focused more time on NFT this year and I think it worked out better (than the scattershot coverage I used to do). Because of NFT's high cost, I would hate to have someone break the bank to buy it, and then be terribly disappointed when it wasn't what they thought it would be.
Yeah-- unless you're making a million plush or an army of a type of mascot, it's almost impossible to consider the minimums of the commercial fur mills. One possibility is to work with a distributor like Monterey Mills: some people on the list did this a few years ago with the red fox fur and that got the minimum down to a few hundred yards, which was do-able. Who knows? With the world economy the way it is, maybe they'd consider lower runs.
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Date: 2009-02-15 08:10 pm (UTC)If we can get down to several hundred yards, we could totally do that. Our last production project required 10 rolls of fleece, so we're getting pretty close to this already. Then again, we're making those huge kigurumi suits, so they eat up a lot of fabric.
We're actually going to be exhibiting at WonderCon, booth 221. If you have the time, please come say hi.