Huge thank you to Skypro/Ino/Rose/Telephone for being a part of this video ^.^ it was an awesome experience 💙

I ended up spilling a whole bunch of paint on my fursuit, it was so so hard to get over. As I was crying for days.

The tangle in Skye’s headphone wire tho 😩

I guess it true, there are horror stories for everything.

about the hot glue one, one time, I was at a furcon and my drunk roomate tried to hotglue a tail to me while I was asleep. This did not go down well, as you can guess. Thing is, even now, even sober, he still brings it up and cant understand why I was so angry.

I was literally tracing patterns onto the fur with sharpie while you talked about the pink suit. I guess ill never put him in the wash :/

One time I was making a head, and I needed to take an ear off to reposition it, but then my entire bucket head base ripped! Took a lot of repairinggg!

0:35 Skypro: "Hello! How are you?" ... Skyhigh: *thinks* : "moving on." 😂

FINALLY :> Oh an wow- once i was using a glue gun, i was trying to make the eyes ( glue the buckram on) for my suit, so uh when i had it on my desk it just fell down on my leg, so when i ripped the glue off my leg, some of my skin stuck to the plastic. Last time im using that glue gun. Oh and i still have a scar on my knee, finger, and face. Ouch ;>

STORY TIME! I’ve been making my first fursuit for the past month now and I’ve officially gotten my first fursuit horror story.. So I was making the eyes using some thick craft foam and buckram using my hot glue gun, me and my mom were kinda just talking and everything was chill while I waited for this one eye to cool down. And suddently we just hear a really loud bang! We both turned to the glue gun to see some very small sparks from the explosion, and grey smoke coming out the back where the glue stick was. We didn’t panic but it was the first time we had ever seen a glue gun explode so it was pretty shocking. Luckily, nothing caught on fire as it didn’t explode enough to cause that..but it is safe to say my mom tried plugging it in a few days later to see if it worked, and it didn’t heat up at all. R.I.P glue gun ??? (It was fairly old maybe 9 years) - 2020

Fun fact: acetone removes super glue and can be pretty helpful for removing yourself from a surface youve been glued to. I only sculpt, but sometimes a limb breaks off (usually thanks to my cat) so i like to keep acetone on hand.

i once accidentally stabbed a razor into my palm on my first fursuit head ;w; since i had recent fainting episodes at school my brain thought it was a good idea to do that. it wasnt very fun and now im scared of using a razor

Sky: Oh yeah I've caught a fursuit on fire Me: .... My brain: didn't you a... Me :shhhhhhh Me: looks at most looked on my birthday list *It says sky high studios fursuit* Me: slight panic

My worst one was when I glued all my fingers to a fursuit while glueing the ear on I had a 2 degree burn on all of them

While I'm not a fursuit maker, I do make small wire sculptures using different wires that can be from 0.7 to around 5mm thick. So one time I was making a dolphin for a ocean project and I was using the thinner wire to help me fill out part of the frame and I was so into my work that I didn't notice the wire was digging into my palm. Long story short about 30mins into this I noticed there was a deep red mark on my left palm after I tried picking up a glass of water and recieved a harsh jolt of pain. That event, coupled with a few other mistakes with other projects, led to me getting gloves with a thin leather layer on my palms.

Fur Suit Maker, its an occupational hazard. Havnt really stabbed myself with any needles, but burn myself definitely. Think id rather take needles over burns. ^^;

Foot injuries are like my worst nightmare. That first one especially made me shudder so hard. 😬 On the bright side, now no one can judge me for obsessively keeping track of where all my needles and pins are (and also for tying a string to a magnet and obsessively keeping it within arm’s reach of wherever I’m sewing)

No I can't imagine stepping on a needle. No. I hate blood. Ahg! I've been sewing for about 2 years I've only made 1 suit. I have pricked myself a few times but I'm always super harsh on picking up needles. I have a magnetic pad that I brush along the floor and table around my sewing area and it picks up any needles hidden in the carpet.

The story about ripping off skin trying to pry their hand away from the eyes was so wild to me. Of all stories. I guess cuz like, despite my low pain tolerance, hot glue doesnt really hurt me. If I get hot glue somewhere wrong I'll just snatch it up with my fingers and squish it till it dries and peel it off. It's kinda fun ngl

I licked my hot glue gun once 🤠 Nothing like the sound and smell of saliva sizzling to make you reevaluate working on your fursuit while tired.

About two weeks ago, I was doing some roto casting for a skull, so I was using quick-setting resin. I was wearing shorts as it was quite hot outside, which was a BIG mistake. I proceeded to spill the resin all over my leg. Luckily, we have a pool so I immediately jumped in and made the mistake of rubbing it everywhere trying to get it off. It set, and I was in the shower for about ~2 hours trying to scrub it off my skin. It was like a huge bandaid, and on top of that I had not shaved my legs in quite a while. I had resin on my hands for a week

eyy dats me! thanks for including my story! edit: I was indeed able to make the muzzle again! and it didnt turn out the way I wanted but it was still better than the one before!

There was a time I took a Christmas stocking and hand sewn it into bunny ears and a tail. I poked my finger and got blood on the white part. It wasn't a small amount either. I was so upset because this Christmas stocking was my dog's before he died in 2019. I was making this sentimental set for myself so I spent an hour washing it and more time after that letting it completely dry before I continued sewing it. They turned out amazing for my first time making a bunny ears and tail set but one ear is slightly shorter than the other by a small amount. Even had some fabric leftover to make a second much smaller tail. I did end getting another Christmas stocking for the fingerless gloves that'd match them so I could wear them during the winter with the set.

These stories sound horribly painful :( I’ve got two stories of me being a idiot with my Fursuit. I was working on my first Fursuit, and pinned all the fur in place. I wasn’t thinking since it was late at night and I wanted to get one look in it before turning in for the night, I had removed the pins mostly, but I forgot to take out one that was holding the ear fur down. I put the head on and it stabbed the top of my head. It hurt real bad but I decided to just put it down and stop working for the night. The second one had to do with hot glue. I was working on a suit and glueing strips in place since I wasn’t using a balaclava or the bucket method. I needed to make sure it was fitting right, so I put it on my head, thinking the glue was dry. It wasn’t. I got glue stuck in my hair on the top, right at the root of my hair. I couldn’t cut it out and ended up pulling dried glue out of my hair for a week. Not only did it burn my scalp, which hurt really bad, it also hurt to pull it out since my scalp is so sensitive! I probably have some chunks still in there 😂😅 Edit: I had another one happen to me just recently! I was sewing a simple prop and when I went to back stitch I had my finger behind the needle with my fingernail facing the wall (so the side of my finger was up) and when I backstitched the needle went straight into my finger. It terrified me and I jerked away as fast as I could. The needle was still in my finger when I jerked away and the force of me pulling away broke the needle (it thankfully fell out of my finger right after it broke off.) I was in so much shock I couldn’t feel the pain until like 20 minutes later. I did finish the prop I was sewing tho! Fun fact it was almost exactly 1 year after I got the machine!

Wdym? Isn't this regular fursuit making?

Fursuit makers put their own blood, sweat and tears into their work.......LITERALLY

I have never used pin needles much. The moment I started sewing school I immediately switched to clips. I LOVE CLIPS

Once when I was making my first first it I had a candle lit while I was in the process of cutting the fur, I left my room for like 10 minutes to feed my pets and when I came back my desk was barley burnt but the fur was a crisp. Oh the beauty of fursuiting...

i have lost needles on the floor (its been awhile) ill get a little surprise some day

Here’s mine: Earlier today, I was making a new fursuit head. I was adding the faux fur to the ears with a piping hot glue gun.little did I know, the glue dropped off of the suit and onto my leg. After dropping my glue gun in surprise, it landed on my leg. Got all of this on live stream, and I’m currently headed to the doc to have em’ look at my possible 2nd degree burns. 😂

These stories are straight up scary.

So nothing really bad actually happened to me. I was hand sewing hand paws for myself and i dont know why i had my glue gun with me BUT it fell on my arm and burned me really bad. That was like a year ago and i still have the scar. Another think is when i was sewing the claws on and they were as sideways even when i has them sewn on the right way. One was even upside down?

The person who ripped the fursuit face off has qualities that lend themselves to being optimus prime

Even tho i only made couple of heads, i already experienced hot glue on my hands trying to glue on tight spots, like around the eyes or inside the muzzle.

So something that I’ve found works really well for getting sharpie stains out of anything is letting them soak in a 1/4 mixture of isopropyl alcohol and water for a few days! I found that out by accident thinking I’d be able to dye some white fur blue with sharpies and then I just kind of left it to sit in the water because I hated the sharpie smell. Lo’ and behold all of my hard work spending hours getting every fiber was ruined. The backing stayed dark blue though! So it had this cool blue skinned effect

Almost all of these were legit me when I made my first stupid cardboard suit head XD i'm painting a dino mask next, i can't deal with fursuit making yet XD

Once i was working on my Sona and my hot glue gun just spit hot glue EVERYWHERE! I was wearing shorts it went all over my legs and my reaction was to nock it off. I tried and got it all over my hands, then my reaction was to grab my face and wait out the pain.... Worst.. Idea... Ever... I have so many scars from this and other times using hot glue guns. I dont wear shorts while making anymore and i wear gloves now.

Oh my god, the amount of times I've burnt myself with glue or stabbed myself with a needle is countless Many tears have been shed

Now im curious if fursuit makers have "injury tax"

These glue gun horror stories gives me flashbacks to when I was making my second suit. Poured some hot glue onto the base, ready to place the fur on top. My thumb ended up in between it all and took a huge dip into some lovely fresh hot glue :)

No one: Skye's head base in the back looking out the window :👁👄👁

I once stepped on a barbed felting needle, which I had to pull out of my foot. Fortunately my reflexes were good enough it didn't go deep. By the way, have you considered a strong magnet on a stick to find those lost pins and needles

I was using scissors on some fabric when I cut my pinky an entire 1/2 inch deep into my skin. Blood was EVERYWHERE litterally all over the sink. I’ve also melted the skin off of my hand before because the hot glue desided it wanted to be liquid. THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WE NEED TO BE SO CAREFUL!!!

Haha I work at a sewing studio, and one of my coworkers was digging through a scraps bin and stabbed herself with a needle that went almost right through her hand! We just pulled it out and went about our day lol. We also get tons of hot glue burns, pokes, ironing mishaps, and broken things, especially with the younger kids. (also Brother sewing machines are great, they're the ones we use.)

Nice vid just starting fursuit making when the foam comes

My worst experience with fursuit making was not paying attention when using my sewing machine. Next thing I knew, the needle had gone through my fingernail and right through my finger and out the other side. I had to break the needle to free myself from the sewing machine. So much pain!

My worst fursuit making horror story was recent: I'm currently making a suit of my fursona, and one night I left the base color on the floor next to my desk overnight. I come back to it after coming home from work only to find that my cat PEED ON THE FUR.

Oh geez, I had a piece of foam covered in fresh hot glue that flipped onto my left hand (mostly my whole pinky finger) as I was trying to place it on a head I was making. My fingers blistered so badly, transferred to my right hand too in a frantic attempt to get it off my left hand, and it was honestly the worst hot glue pain and accident I've had so far. I had like 2/3 fingers on each hand that weren't injured and have to adapt to grabbing things strangely for a while as the rest of my fingers healed. That was last year, and I've learned to take my glueing a bit more cautiously since then! Haha

I have a tip for dealing with injury from pins if you get a powerful large magnet you could sweep over your fursuit as well as floor or work area if there are any the suit will stick to the magnet where they are and they will come off floor or work area also .

I was making a fursuit head for my friend when I was wondering how hot hot glue was. Let's just say I'll never traumatize my thumbs again.

one time, when i was making my very first dino mask, i spilled PIPING hot hot-glue on my leg and peeled the flesh off 😭 i dont even know why but i didnt head to the ER until a few hours later

Not a fursuit maker, but me and my friend want to make some suits. If we do work out, I'll make sure to get the pins out and now bleed on everything!! :)

I'm watching you while making my fur suit I'm so excited!! Ty for keeping me not bored lol

I firstly thought you were British! I love your accent and oc! You are so talented and I am dreaming to be like you!

All the horror stories about hot glue burns reminds me of the time I dropped a piece of red hot steel and tried to pick it back up with my hand... Fun times

Oh boy, this vid was so painful. I'm so sorry for you fursuit makers!

Both of your fur suits are super cute!

I love how nonchalant Ino was about pulling the needle out lol

This is why you pay people to make them hear their stories

This was fun, I'm a huge fan of Ino89777 she's amazing and all of those stories are quite interesting, Planning to be a suit maker in the future I've learnd a lot of those tips

I'm glad I always wear shoes in my sewing room- The sewing room in my house is in the basement and because I don't like cold feet I wear socks and shoes but I'm so glad I don't have to worry about needles in my feet ;-;

One time in school I cut my fingers with scissors by cutting wool , and the same day it happened again on the SAME SPOT while trying to make my first Fursuit mask / head thing

The worst thing that happened to me probably is on my first ever fursuit I held the hot glue gun straight in the air and all the melted glue came rushing down on my finger, I had a nasty burn on it for a while. I still have a scar from it, and that's when I learnt that fursuit making isn't that safe!

The marking with sharpie tip came at a great time. I'd been experimenting with various things to mark some troublesome dark fur with on a piece of scrap (I was already worried but getting irritated not being able to *see*) so that horror story convinced me to keep looking. |D

For glue incidents you should keep alcohol or other solvents on hand just incase you accidentally glue your fingers. Stay calm and set your hand in the solvent and it will disolve the glue or paint that is stuck to you without damaging your skin

Thanks for you amazing content!!!

Thanks for existing ino! I'm working on a dutchie fursona!

Wow,that burning sewenging machine scared me 😅

Stepping on needles is why I don't let my dogs in my room anymore

Eyebrows = gone hotel = travigo

I’ve trodden on so many needles (luckily I almost exclusively use the ones that don’t exceed a couple of inches), broke 2 machine needles in one night working on my fursuit tail, got a few minor cuts from craft knives, too many hot glue burns, almost trapped my arm in an arm sleeve DTD, and that’s just from making a couple of fursuits. Other crafting failures include supergluing my fingers together, accidentally holding a soldering iron too low (nice blister from that), squashing my thumb on a piece of glass while making a stained glass bee and cutting it open (it wouldn’t stop bleeding), scratches from pins while sewing a trim onto a hat, endless felting needle stab wounds, and of course putting on a piece of clothing only to find a stray pin/needle in it.

Yep I have definitely had those hot glue burns/blisters STORY TIME So I have a habit to grab the hot glue when it first comes out a couple times to know if it’s warm enough to use, a few times it was warm/hot and burned myself a few times lol

I told my TAFE film course friends I was making my first fursuit and a friend of mine wanted to do their final project film about furries/bronies... using my fursuit, which unfortunately hadn't been made yet. This would have all been fine and good and I was 500% for the idea... until I had to rush it to a student deadline, while not only factoring in deadlines for my friend's film but also for my own film I was very much struggling with for time management and production. Because I didn't get time to research what I was doing, or how to even pattern a head or install ventilation, I ended up heavily abusing the $200 resin blank I ordered with loose scraps of unshaved fur hastily glued everywhere and because I didn't have time to buy mesh for the tear ducts or eyelids for the 3D following resin eyes I had so lovingly painted... in the film shoot itself, the "vision" was through weakened elastic from a pair of tights and those resin eyes? Well... they were temporarily stuck on with blu-tack. Even worse was that the actor playing the character of the furry in my friend's film was incredibly disproportionate to the suit measurements and the sleeves - all hand sewn with seams ripping everywhere - didn't line up with the "handpaws", which were essentially just unshaved fluffy mitts made of a fur that was the complete opposite colour to the rest of the suit and did not fit at all. The tail? Looked like a minecraft block covered in fur. Overall the film turned out okay for what it was worth and managed to get a decent mark, but all the effort I put towards that project instead of my own film gave me a lot of stress and as a result... my own grades began to drop, almost as badly as the quality of my poorly rushed fursuit partial. A personal suit, mind you, that ended up becoming something I'm honestly embarassed to have made or shown to a wide audience knowing that if I'd had more than 1 month to make it, and instead given it the longer turnaround time that professional makers usually have... the quality would have been something I could have worn multiple times, and actually been proud of. Moral of the story: DO NOT RUSH YOUR FURSUIT! Especially not your own personal suit! And above all else, CONSIDER YOUR COMMITMENTS AND TIME MANAGEMENT! Edit: This was several years ago and I no longer have the suit in question. I am currently commissioning a partial of a different oc to replace my original suit, and working on a head of yet another personal oc until I feel confident enough to remake the first oc.

Dont remember what I was making, it wasnt involving fur, but i thought one of our really hot glue guns was cool, but... it wasnt and i leaned over it to unplug something else and not only did it burn me right above the inside of my elbow, but glue got on and pulled some skin off when it dried. The scar is faded but still there a couple years later

So glad I found your channel keep up the brilliant content

Being extremely poor abd having to make my first fursuit head out of paper, tape, glue sticks and fleece is a nightmare in of itself. I hope it turns out semi-decent 😢

The dude that left the needle in the back of his fursuit head and got a scratch just got springlocked lol

YES! I FINALLY HAVE AN EXUSE FOR MY OLDER SILBING TO DRIVE TO THE STORE AND BUT ME A BETTER HOT GLUE GUN! (I literally can’t get my drivers license;-; )

when I bled onto my fursuits white parts on the feet I took scissors and just trimmed the bloody fur out. I gave it a brushing and it looked great

Huge thank you to skoro/ino/rose/ thanks for the video guys

Woooo- I was trying to make some hot glue claws for a fur suit by putting glue STRAIGHT onto my real nails- WAY to hot and I couldnt get them off 😩😂👏

In the process of moving at the moment but I've been playing around with foam and hopefully will be able to make my own partial soon. I've already experienced a few hot glue burns though, so I'm sure I'll have my own stories in the future

Oh dang I wish I'd known about the release of this video I gave a story!! Once I was working on a suit in my room (I didn't have an office lol) and set my sewing needle down to check out some stitching, then about 30 seconds later I noticed my cat making a smacking sound with her mouth, looked over and noticed she was chewing on some thread and at the end of the thread was my needle...... it was 2 inches away from her mouth so I just gently yanked her mouth open and pulled the whole line of thread out because she was about to swallow it.... then i let her out of my room and didn't allow her in my room while working after that

I don't currently make suits but my glue gun has been the bane of my existence in all of my crafting. One time I was having such a weird day, and my brain was OFF. Turned on my glue gun, walked away for 30 seconds to grab something, forgot if I had turned it on so the only logical thing to do was to gRAB THE NOZZLE OF IT. I still don't know why. luckily, the burns weren't that bad, and I don't have any big scars or anything from it

that needle story tho i can relate i was sewing my sisters clothes because somehow she always manages to rip them and it was a large hole so i was half way through and decided with the one brain cell i have left i was gonna put the sharp part of the needle into the floor to go down and get food to eat when i came back i stood on the blunt end of the needle but it was still sharp enough to go into my foot i casually pulled it out and carried on sewing my sisters clothes with a different needle not caring that my foot was bleeding when i finished i went back down to throw them at her and my mum was panicing because the floor had blood on it not my foot the floor-

AHHH I can already FEEL the pain

Fun story. Maybe. 10 minutes after I completed my first fursuit head I left the room for a moment and came back to discover my cat, Blackstar had sprayed it. Ugh, really dude?! Ended up having to re do part of the neck.

NEW VID YAAASSS

i’ve burnt myself so many times, and a few times were really really bad, and i’ve had my fair share of stepping on needles, but tbh the worst thing to happen to me is when i sliced my finder open i wasn’t being very careful when i was cutting some fur with an x acto, and i sliced the tip of my finger open it sucked, but i kept a bandaid on it and made sure it stayed clean

Skye is the Australian blep to me

9:11 some electronic appliances (include electronic sewing machine) can be catch on fire if you push it too hard. Especially in electronic sewing machines, they have a motor to run all parts, just a motor. So, it will be a hard work for the motor. If you push it too hard (to long by pressing the motor pedal while it's struggles because the material is too thick or runs it in a lon periode of time) although greased or lubricated, it will end up in a hot situation. The motor will draw current from the electricity too much than the usual to accommodate the torque & it will catch on fire.

I had an issue about little plastic part in my hot glue (that is connecting trigger to pusher) constantly breaking. So glad that I have a 3D printer so I quickly printed it and glue was fixed

Hi skye! the sad thing in my life is kinda just fading and i feel more confident about myself again. But, and i actually don't know why i'm saying this to you... imma take a break from social media for some time. I need to think some things through and... i got school... So here you go... i guess... Oh and btw, i was to cut some fur, And i cut in my finger. Yeah, it really doesn't seem that bad, They cut you like butter basically. Here's my biggest incident I'm really not lying.

*Excited Dutch angel dragon noises*

Next year i'm planning on making fursuit bits and this is the stuff that always worries me. Btw great job on the vid!

Now that I know glue guns explode, I'm rethinking this hobby.

One time helping my mom put up decorations and i stapled 2 of my fingers to the wall and they went through my skin a bit

Once I spilt a butt load of superglue on my hand and it took two hours to wash off 😭😭

thank you for making my day today :)

Also I was carefully pulling a clump of dried glue off the Nozel of the very hot glue gun. My cat decided to pounce on the wire and pulled the molten tip into my hand. Lucky for me, there was no glue where the nozel hit 😅