#modded toy

Not sure of this one's brand, it seems like a cheap wee thing! It spent a while attached to a kandi necklace my friend gave me. But I saw the stripes and I had thoughts...

No in depth walkthrough, but this thylacinification surgery involved chopping off most of the neck and sewing the top bit closed as a new head, and using some of the neck stripes to make a little snout! Took a bit of messing around with pieces to look good though. The fabric is all reused but the eyes and flocked nose are all new.

A scrap of leftover orange was donated to the tip of Dandelion's tail.

The original tiger only had a few additional stripes on the head and tail to remove, but this still took a lot of careful unpicking! The fabric itself is quite delicate and easy to rip tiny holes in.

Pile of thread fluff. You can see the embroidery did leave an imprint in the fur too. I gave these areas some washing and scrubbing to help fluff the fuzz back up.

The tail tip was originally embroidered too, but I wasn't fond of its look so ended up replacing it with a scrap of orange fabric from another thylacinification project I was also working on... happened to be very similar textured!

The face stripes left a faint imprint too. I adjusted the muzzle shape slightly by stitching down between the sides to narrow it.

I gave them two magnets in their mouth, placed at either side of the central seam as they'd work better without the extra bulk in the way. They're sewn into a pocket of thin lining fabric, stitched in place in the middle of the seam so you can't see any evidence from outside.

The dummy is just a regular baby's one with the teat cut out and replaced with magnets. I applied a big blob of hot glue first, letting it cool slightly before pressing the magnets on and peeling them off again. This makes a nice level surface to more securely superglue the magnets onto!

I can't seem to find much about the toy brand. Its label only said 'TCM, 22290 Hamburg' (and searching for TCM tiger brings up sad things.)

The tag also advised you to 'remove wood wheels before washing' which explains why there were velcro patches on their tummy! I removed those, but unfortunately there were holes left in the delicate fabric underneath. Did my best to stitch them up neatly, but there are still scars! Ah well.

They also had a go at some flying!

We brought them to see some other wolves in my favourite area of the museum.

Strawberry got to ride on the outside of my backpack with her harness, and shared an appropriately flavoured smoothie.

Finally, she got to ride home in my bike basket.