What can you make from an old fur coat?

An old fur item that has served its purpose can still be useful for a long time. It can be restored and continued to be worn as outerwear. It is also within our power to make something interesting for our wardrobe or a useful item for our home. First, you need to rip the fur coat apart, keeping the side seams, and remove all worn areas.

Important. For further work, use only fur that has been preserved in almost original condition. Otherwise, there is a high risk of getting a second-hand item.

Handmade ideas

There are actually a great many ideas. An out-of-fashion or shabby fur coat will become the basis for many necessary things:

• soft toys;
• vests;
• warm insoles;
• fur tops for shoes;
• bags or backpacks;
• eyeglass case;
• rug;
• blanket;
• stole;
• hats;
• scarf;
• couplings;
• decorative pillows.

Let's also add leg warmers, ugg boots, mittens, and slippers. It’s impossible to list everything.

Cloth

Remaking a fur coat is, first of all, sewing a sheepskin coat or a winter vest:

• the length is shortened or left untouched if the degree of wear is small, and the selected style allows this;
• for a vest, the sleeves are ripped off and the armhole line is processed; for a short fur coat, the inner, most worn part of the fur on the sleeve is replaced with leather or suede;
• straight cut slightly fitted;
• abrasions in the fastener area are cut off and leather strips are sewn from the top to the bottom of the product, a long two-way zipper is sewn to them; The vest can be left unfastened.

You can also combine fur with drape, quilted fleece, or thick knitwear in products. One of the most interesting options is the combination of two types of fur with different textures in one product..

A very interesting hat can be made from an old fur coat if the fur is long-haired. Mink is used to sew and knit hats and berets. Scarf, stole, cape, coat - strips of fur (preferably two types) are sewn together. The product is cut out from the resulting fabric. The mittens turn out warm and beautiful, and they are quite easy to sew.

Important. When connecting fur strips to each other, make sure that the pile lies in the same direction.

Interior items

1. Home craftsmen make carpets and rugs, furniture covers, sofa cushions, eyeglass cases, covers for gadgets, chairs, car seats, and soft toys for children.
2. They collect entire paintings from fur and leather - still lifes, floral and geometric designs. Flower pots with plants made entirely of tinted multi-colored short-pile fur are placed on the windows and shelves of the book sections.
3. A fluffy bed cover is in trend in “interior” fashion. It is sewn from fur of the same or different textures, often different in color.Long strips are sewn together, leaving 15–30 cm free on each edge. This is how you get a designer item that you can never buy in a store.

Accessories and shoes

The following small fur items are also worthy of attention:

• headphones for wearing instead of a hat in the off-season;
• original keychain or pendant;
• decoration element for a lady's hat;
• hair clip with a fur “rose”;
• fluffy long earrings;
• brooch decorated with a strip of fur.

Don’t forget that excellent warm insoles are cut from fur coats. The upper and sometimes the middle part of the boots are trimmed with fur, and home slippers are made from it.

A long pile bag will look very stylish and relevant - an exclusive fashion item that others will not have. It can be made whole or patchwork, small or voluminous - it’s up to you to decide.

Different fur - different ideas

The texture of the canvas largely dictates its further use. Mink fur makes beautiful hats and stoles, arctic fox or silver fox are suitable for a vest or kubanka, artificial furs will warm your feet with a rug near the bed. In the case of fur, using a combination of long and short pile, you can come up with many different combinations. The different widths of the strips connected into one will also play a role. You just have to start this process, and your imagination will suggest an option for an option. And you can always look for original ideas on the Internet.

Faux fur items

Faux fur is also good for a lot of things. You need to look and evaluate according to the condition of the pile and the relevance of the color or pattern. In addition to the above items, it is quite possible to make them yourself:

• an original vest made from a Pavlovo Posad shawl - the cut fur is turned inside out, and the top is covered with details from a shawl with fur cuffs. Here, defects obtained in the wear of the previous product are not too important;
• fur capes for kitchen stools with elastic - easy to put on, easy to wash;
• seasonal “warmers” for the feet of people who are motionless for a long time (for example, working at a computer or the elderly near the TV);
• soft and warm seat in a sled or baby stroller.

The best way to use it is to sew a rug. Fur with predatory prints is doomed to remake the covering in the form of animal skin.

But the most luxurious look is a carpet made using the patchwork technique from materials of different colors. The parts are cut out more than for fabric techniques and sewn one by one according to the pattern. The result will be so interesting that your friends will want one for themselves.

Crafts from a mouton fur coat

If the item has scuffs, but overall looks decent, it is first of all recommended to change it into a fashionable sheepskin coat or fur jacket. In this case, you cannot do without leather or suede inserts. Typically, a fur coat wears out most quickly at the bottom (including on the sleeve), on the sides, at the junction of the front panels or fasteners, on the inside and elbow of the sleeve. Tsigeyka is difficult to sew, and it is difficult for a non-professional to work with it.

Let's try to solve the problems ourselves:

• frayed bottom - cut to the required length and hem it, shorten the sleeve and fold it or put it on a leather cuff;
• abrasions in other places - this is more difficult: a beginner in furriery, of course, can correct the defects by altering the fur coat with suede inserts, but the resulting product is unlikely to satisfy him.There is only one way out - take it to the studio. But with a clear understanding and vision of the final result.

Despite the complexity of working with mouton fur, we will do some useful things:

1. warm insoles for shoes - easy to get, you just have to trace the template along the wrong side of the work and then cut it out. Shoes for the resulting insole should be loose;
2. the inside of a pet basket;
3. plaid or rug - whole pieces are used, which are sewn from the inside out. The edges are processed with bias tape or simply cut evenly with scissors;
4. house slippers – sewn from blanks according to patterns. In addition to tsigeika, thick fabric, other fur, leather or a substitute are used. The seam connecting the insole and the upper is made both internal and external. In the second case, a decorative stitch is laid.

What to make from a mink coat?

Mink fur can easily be turned into all of the above-mentioned products, you just have to put your hands to it. A fur shawl and hat will look fresh and elegant. For the stole, we cut squares from linen that has been preserved in excellent condition and crochet them around the perimeter. By connecting them together in a certain order, we get a shawl that can be used to warm your shoulders or give to mature women in your family.

Before starting work, you need to outline a scheme and act according to the plan. Squares can be easily replaced with rectangles, circles, triangles, and diamonds.

There is a technology for knitting from mink tape. It’s not even really knitting: fur strips are pulled into a finished knitted hat with a coarse knit. A similar technique is used to knit a scarf, stole, cape, poncho, vest, jacket, coat, fur coat. Products connected in this way are warm, comfortable, and stylish. Volumetric items made from a combination of two types of fur, for example, mink and silver fox, look very dignified, fresh and new.