Cool! And it is nice that your hubby checks on you to make sure you're not dead. My wife sort of does the same with me. Well a little over a year ago we all nearly perished from carbon monoxide poisoning. Everyone else in the house had gone to bed except me (the night owl) and when I passed out and hit a wall adjoining the bedroom she woke and called an ambulance ultimately saving me, herself, my daughter, son-in-law and grandson. I only tell this whole tale so you'll understand why now she ALWAYS sleeps with the bedroom door open so she can more easily hear if I should pass out again anytime soon. Silly lady. On that fateful night when she was awakened by my falling, the door was closed, but she's not taking any chances I guess.

The wig turned out great! So a hair dryer worked ok?  I was wondering if it would get hot enough. 

Great to hear your husband looks out for you.   @Puppetainer Wow what a story... did she also make you buy a carbon monoxide alarm after that?

Billy - Yep, made these a while ago, and have been waiting to use them. I learned how to from the youtube tutorial here: How to make hair wefts on your sewing machine (Just make sure to take out the pins before you run it through). I did a couple of basic stitches and then secured the top with a line of hot glue. I also trimmed off the extra ribbon.

Puppetainer - Glad everything worked out. Super scary!

Shawn - I have a heat gun, but wanted to use the hair dryer since it doesn't heat up as much, and would leave the fabric with more flexibility. I thought it would be a bad thing to make it super rigid, and to watch it pop while the puppet was moving. I think for standard, rigid uses, I will probably have to use the heat gun.

And, yeah, my husband is awesome. He knows me well enough to come check on me now and then. I have had a couple of craft mishaps, but my main problems are things like losing track of time and not eating/sleeping/etc.

Marc? How did you do this? Happy that you came out alife- if I was your wife, I'd get a baby phone instead of leaving the door open!

Sorry for steering this thread off the rails with my crazy story! This should answer a couple of questions/comments.

The furnace needed cleaning and so it was causing a lot of carbon monoxide build up. To answer Shawn's suggestion we do indeed have 2 carbon monoxide detectors now. And Rikka let's not give my wife any ideas! As it is I have to try and be a bit more quiet than I usually would while I work on puppets at night. It was a scary event but after a night in the hyberbaric chamber we were all perfectly fine. Of course being unemployed I now have a rather large bunch of hospital bills that I'm going to be paying off for a while, but beats leaving a bunch of funeral expenses. I'm quite delighted to be around to pay the bills! It happened on December 20th, 2010 so we just considered it our own Christmas miracle!

There is something to be said for health insurances for everybody like we have over here... I would have to sell organs of my body with all the diseases I have...

Sorry for the delay (just got back from LA)in sending out those free WONDERFLEX & FOSSHAPE samples to those of you requesting them....they were sent just yesterday. Looking forward to reading some follow-up cconstructive comments after folks have the time to perhaps experiment a little. Let me know if any questions along the way and if anyone else might want some samples... just send your regular mailing address to me via info@wonderflexworld.com

And FYI sometimes we have "Free FOSSHAPE Friday" where you can get a free full yard and no shipping charge. Having said that, you need to watch for the posting on the FOSSHAPE FaceBook page for when the next Free Friday will be. 

Hi- Just wanted to check-in and say thanks for the numerous sample requests we received on both WONDERFLEX and FOSSHAPE. Hopefully we didn't overlook any of your free sample requests and you have received by now.  If not, just send me an email at info@wonderflexworld.com to request and or let me know if any questions.

Brian Jeffrey
Wonderflex World
www.wonderflexworld.com
www.fosshape.com

Thanks Brian for the samples............. I added it to my sample references. Hope to place a order soon.