#plush modification

[catschimericalcreations]

my horrifying son!

[catschimericalcreations]

Two Legged Horse Frankenplushie by Cat's Chimerical Creations

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[pixelplushies]

For my next trick, I'm going to turn this wolf/husky... Into a thylacine.

First, we unstuff the unsuspecting victim...

Then we get the Broth prepared. This is sandstone Rit dye for artificial fibres. We want this to be below but close to boiling so we don't damage the plush fibres. I have no idea what 200F means but the packet was American so I switched my thermometer to F.

Wolf soup! This is my first time dying a plush but I wanted to see if I could get a gradient on the nose and feet, so I'm keeping them out of the water. I also stitched some stripes on the back so we will see how they turn out...

Don't use your food cookware for this folks, this is an old pan I've used for dying model car seats before (don't ask).

Time to rinse this guy and give him a quick spin in the washer. It came out almost dry. I'm impatient so I just went ahead with a slightly damp plushie.

Rounded the ears, swapped the eyes, used alcohol markers for the markings! Thylacine! The tie-dye stripes didn't quite turn out but I like the effect. Tydylacine..

Gonna let him dry properly and he should fluff up good. The fur has remained nice and soft. Very peaceful. Very demure.

[anotherscrappile]

My Lil’ Pootis plush arrived yesterday & today I made a slight modification to it :)

I bought a dog toy, extracted the squeaker, & put it inside the Pootis. I’m very happy that my stitchwork is barely visible where I did the “surgery” on the little guy.

[wolfscratch24]

ATTICUS!! he got surgery! i fixed him up and now hes my personal little hellhound :) he will keep me safe from negative energies and people🖤

[beanbagbuddies4life]

Threadbare tiger turned out pretty good considering I had never done anything like this before!

The short version is I turned her inside out and painted her insides with acrylic paint.

Process pictures/plushie surgery under the cut:

I picked acrylic paint based on my experience using it for t-shirts. It's not perfect, but it's cheap, available, and looks good for dozens of machine washes. It's a little crusty, but that won't matter TOO much because I'm painting the inside, not the soft part. (Don't do this for a kid's plushie though! The paint can't handle that and it could stain!)

The idea was to for her to remain mostly white but with a visible, colorful undercoat. And for the most part that went pretty well:

Except I went a little too heavy on the yellow.

Then I did a few things I forgot to photograph. To even out the color I spritzed her with a spray bottle. That worked really really well in the places where I did it lightly! In a few places, though, the water pooled and carried the paint all the way out onto her fur and she got crusty.

To rectify the crusty, she got washing machine'd and came out looking like this:

A few notes here on putting acrylic paints in the washing machine. First of all, make sure it's 100% dry first or it will a) wash out of your project and b) wash onto your other clothes! I used a blow dryer. Second, even dry acrylics will definitely stain other materials in the same load. I washed her in a load of all black t-shirts and that was fine.

Ultimately, I wish I had gone heavier on the paint from the beginning and just planned to wash some of it off in the washing machine! I really like the effect the paint gave her, in both the heavy and the lighter spots. I only regret that it wasn't more consistent.

To top it all off she got extra beans, new stuffing and needle sculpting, and whiskers!

[biceroni]

Wasn't a fan of the Beanie Boo axolotl's design, so I modified it a fair bit! Made it more accurate to the real life guy

[catschimericalcreations]

I have them! ...sort of.

Red panda merch of the day: Ty Beanie Babies Rusty the Red Panda

[lilyssketches]

Experimented with plush modding the other day because I thought this looked like Kulou. It’s not the best, but I think it’s cute in a wonky way.

[catschimericalcreations]

@isle-of-misfit-joys I made him! Or, I mutilated a regular horse plushie into him, I guess! I call him Ninety Nine Flake.

[catschimericalcreations]

Janjoogle the Three Headed Red Panda Plush turns two years old today!

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[pixelplushies]

Muahahaha! Today, we will be lengthening Suki, the stubby wolf!

Suki is a wolf made by Suki International, formerly known as Russ.

I purchased her off of Vinted in May 2025 whilst I was very sleepy deprived/been out in the sun too long whilst visiting family and completely forgot about it until she turned up.

First, she had a bath with some pals because she arrived kinda sticky, dusty and smelling of perfume (???). I didn't actually put her in the bathtub, she was gently machine washed inside a pillow case instead. No heat! No tumble dry!

... When she was dry, I took out all her stuffing, turned her inside out and cut off her legs.

Don't worry! I had plans...

I longthened her!! Elongated! Such length! Such stride!

[helen-birb]

Customised Razzle and Dazzle so they looked more like my personal design

I sewed the pompoms on since that would be more study than glue (and less messy)

Very happy with the final result, didn't take anytime at all, should sew more often

[catschimericalcreationsbirthdays]

Happy 1st Birthday to this two-headed Frankenplush snail teddy hybrid!

This little fellow is one year old today, and still doesn't have a name!

Perhaps for his birthday, you could suggest one for him?

[catschimericalcreationsmisc]

the Worgs in Baldur's Gate 3 look like the grown up version of chimera!Nina Tucker

Am I wrong?

[bambini-della-luna]

Before and after.