I decided to give this opossum slightly more adult facial features. And once she was finished I couldn't resist but try my hand on a baby. Trust me, while that might sound easy, it was not by any means. I had to resort to very fine needles because thicker ones would have made for an ugly face and feet. Just the legs and feet alone took about 90 minutes per foot = 360 minutes for just the four little legs and tootsies per baby. I was pretty tired of pink toes afterwards, but I had to give her at least two babies.
Some people do a double-take thinking this is a real live opossum family. Of course I worked with pictures I had taken of opossums that have been in my care, so I knew exactly what I wanted to recreate.
So here she is, my possie mom. She stands 7 1/2" high and measures 17" long nose tip to tail tip. No wires of any kind, it is 100% yarn and poly fill. All total it took well over 70 hours to create this family which is a true one-of-a-kind. You can scour the internet high and low, there is nothing else out there even remotely like my design. I am very proud of this. The weird thing is, whenever I am finished with something that came out extremely well I then look at it later on and wonder how on earth I made that...
So, what do you think of this threesome? It will be for sale in my Etsy store, just click on the squirrel with the red cast. This is a true high end collector's item. And the fun will be over when I can no longer get this particular yarn.
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