AW HELL! what day is it?? i totally woke up and have been happily putzing and doing nothing thinking i had a free day. i totally forgot what day it was. it's VOTING day! sorry this is late. so here are the enlivened critters. for more pictures please go to the Yarn Museum. thanks eceryone who reanimated! they look very......well, they seem to be functioning!

The Reanimater Series
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#1 Guttersnipe/Guttersnipe Yarns

I first wanted to do a raccoon, but my partner hates raccoons and although happy to see one as road kill did not want one reanimated. So I did a squirrel. I spun in sticks and bits of gravel. Most of which fell out but the final product. I stuffed the critter with the yarn indicating the tire marks. He isn't pretty, but maybe road kill isn't supposed to be brought back from the bed. I included a pic of the yarn as road kill chili because where I grew up that's the closest most road kill go to being reanimated.







#2 Eva/AtomHeart
"SealTIN aka: Beater"

I chose to use a beaten seal pup for my poor critter. This little guy hadn't had a chance to swim or eat a fish before he was beat down and skinned for his fur. But he has had a second chance. I found him discarded in the sea and pulled him out and reclaimed his bloody white coat from a drunk fisherman, who had fallen asleep.
Slowly I repaired him, stitch by stitch. His fur is somewhat reattached but I haven't been able to stop the bleeding from his mouth. My son has decided he dosen't mind, and has adopted him for his own. SealTIN was the lucky one, he got another chance. 300,000 seal pups this year weren't so lucky. They were a part of the worlds largest marine mammal hunt last month.

Materials: white mill end wool, black Merino bits, red Cotswold, Romney and pure white bamboo.






#3 Linda Scharf/Stoneleafmoon

Started out thinking of skunks, mostly because I see a lot of them, and also because I had this gorgeous white tipped black Navajo Churro. Finished the yarn before vacation, and thought I had all the time in the world to finish it, got home, got all my dates mixed up. The skunk had a premature death, then a premature re-animation, when I posted the unfinished version earlier today. My little cat was sitting outside watching me take pictures of the creature, and I could tell she was having deeply existential thoughts, wondering if that's how she, too came to exist.