This was my first time doing a commission for someone who was not a friend I already knew. I learned my lesson that just because I -CAN- make fursuits for others, doesn't mean I should. Not when life has potential to get in the way and delay, and not when I am so forgetful about responding. Not when it causes so much disappointment.
I have apologized, and while I finished the head, except for furring the jaw, I sent them everything. I sent the items I had completed, the incomplete gloves, the fur that had been ordered, and extra fursuit props. I also refunded back half of their payment, as the other half had been spent on materials (which, as I had added had all been mailed). The commissioner was very happy with what had been completed.
I could not make the padded gloves that were requested. I tried and tried, and could not figure out how to make the pattern over them.
For the record, I would like to say that I had only made 5 fursuits at the time and all were personal except for one which was for a friend in Florida.
If I ever get a wild hair to sell fursuits (unless prefabricated), someone slap me, and don't take me up on it.
I have made one fursuit since then for a local friend that lives near me. She was able to be present through the process and assist in making it (she did the machine sewing, I did the hand sewing and made the head).
My sincerest apologies. I won't ever take fursuit comissions from people I don't know ever again. It's not worth the disappointment it causes them.
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Date: 2016-04-28 12:00 am (UTC)I have apologized, and while I finished the head, except for furring the jaw, I sent them everything. I sent the items I had completed, the incomplete gloves, the fur that had been ordered, and extra fursuit props. I also refunded back half of their payment, as the other half had been spent on materials (which, as I had added had all been mailed).
The commissioner was very happy with what had been completed.
I could not make the padded gloves that were requested. I tried and tried, and could not figure out how to make the pattern over them.
For the record, I would like to say that I had only made 5 fursuits at the time and all were personal except for one which was for a friend in Florida.
If I ever get a wild hair to sell fursuits (unless prefabricated), someone slap me, and don't take me up on it.
I have made one fursuit since then for a local friend that lives near me. She was able to be present through the process and assist in making it (she did the machine sewing, I did the hand sewing and made the head).
My sincerest apologies. I won't ever take fursuit comissions from people I don't know ever again. It's not worth the disappointment it causes them.