#plush modification

[pixelplushies]

I've got some plushies looking for new homes!

Three of these are modified and gently weighted, all of them have custom fitted harnesses and are ready to be your pal!

These would make excellent travelling companions, they're all looking for someone to comfort and give them a good home! A little story behind these- I love to buy 2nd hand plushies, particularly ones that look a little sad and need some TLC to look their best. I have the skills to modify promising but slightly "lacking" plushies into ones that really appeal to me, but I don't have infinite space to keep them all.

People have really been enjoying my plush modification blog posts, so I thought I'd put more time into this side-hobby and offer up the finished plushies to new homes!

They're also fun for me to work on when I'm too low on mental spoons for Palaeoplushies/wrists too sore to cut out lots of fabric for new plushies.

...and in a silly way, it brings me a lot of joy bringing these old, pre-loved plushies to life again.

[catschimericalcreations]

Meet Eely McEelface

I was watching the video for Eeler's Choice s2 crowdfunding and the fact that they had to specify that if you backed at the level that let you name a character, you would not be able to pick Eely McEelface, made me laugh so hard I knew what I had to name my new Eel chimera plush:

(also, if you are a Silt Verses, Wooden Overcoats or Don't Mind: Welcome to Cruxmont enjoyer, or you just liked that one time a few years back when we all listened to sea shanties on the radio, you'd be well advised to give Eeler's Choice a listen. Just throwing that out there. You're welcome)

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[catschimericalcreations]

Happy MerMay from the Escapee Cat, an Eel Siamese Hybrid Frankenplushie by Cat's Chimerical Creations!

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[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.

[dreamdropcompanions]

nose make over!! a little plush mod. Shane used fabric marker and some blending to mod Lilac's nose pastel pink to purple-!! - Shane/Theo/Bug

[dunwichdrawsstuff]

Been a REAL hot minute since the last “Dunwich Crafts Stuff!”

I picked up some plushes from goodwill and did a crafting stream! Cutting off heads and sloppy stitching parts together. Maybe not my cleanest work, but hey. I do this for fun, it don’t gotta be perfect. I just like being a plush Dr Frankenstein

[sandyferal]

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