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Now its time to remove the tape, and it’s best to do it each individual segment at a time so you don’t have 20 some odd pieces of tape hanging around in which you could get confused. So use your blade once again and remove one piece, lay it sticky side up to the fur with the fur laying in the right direction and cut it. Each piece you cut, use some push pins and pin them back in place to the head. I like to shave the pieces as I cut them so the pattern doesn’t get lost in the fluff, but you can wait until the face is on to shave it after, it’s your personal preference. If you do decide to shave each piece as you cut it, be sure not to shave the edges off. If you shave the edges off it before you sew the pieces together, it will give it a very unnatural cut look; just wait until it’s on the head to shave in the spots the fur connects with other pieces.

As you remove the tape, cut your fur pieces, and shave it you can also sew respective pieces together as you go and keep pinning them in place. Once you have completed cutting out all the pieces of the face and have them sewn together you can start gluing the fur to the face. It’s best to start gluing on the top of the muzzle first, then around the eyes, then the bottom jaw to finish it off. Take your time gluing it, it’s not a race and be sure to hold the fur down in place to crevices till the glue dries ensuring the shape.

As you glue, try and be as neat as you can with exposed areas like around the nose and rim of eyes, but if you get a little “goop” in the way its okay, it will be covered up with fleece. For the nose, take a circle of cut out fleece and just lay it around the rim of the nose, using hot glue or super glue and gently glue it on over the seem hiding it and any glue globs.