I’ve never liked taxidermy.

Being a vegetarian for many years, I never felt that I would want to decorate my house with dead animals, any more than I would want to boil them up for dinner.

But I have to admit, I do find textile “fauxidermy” a bit of a guilty pleasure.

There are lots of examples of it all over t’internet – both clever, realistic versions and quirky, cartoonish ones. I kind of like them both.

The other day I was trying to work out a pattern for the making of a new creature, which involved making a mock-up in calico. I got so engrossed in making the pattern for the head, that I kind of forgot to sew it to a body.

Which left me with a half-finished, disembodied calico head knocking about on my sewing table.

Waste not, want not, I thought…

I’m quite fond of what resulted.

And rather pleased with how the plaque it rests on turned out. (I worked out how to do that all by myself.)

So, if anyone fancies a disembodied creature head to decorate their wall, you know where to come.

Completely cruelty-free, of course.

More cutesidermy than taxidermy. ♥