This mum KNITTED a replica of her teenage son
When her teenage son started to spend less time with her, mum-of-two and textiles designer Marieke Voorslujis decided to pick up her needles and KNIT a life-size replica of him.
Yes, you read that right.
Upset her son wasn't cuddling her as much as he used to, she decided she needed a stand-in, so she spent two months creating the pretty impressive model.
We know how it is when teenage boys get older – they want to spend less time with mum and more with their friends, and while we don’t particularly like it, we don’t think we’d go to these lengths!
“My son is reaching puberty.” she wrote on Bored Panda. “We used to cuddle all the time, but those days are becoming scarce. Now he’d rather hang with friends, play with his phone and listen to his iPod.
“I am a professional knitter who likes to knit weird things for my brand Club Geluk. We knit realistic everyday stuff with lots of details and even wrote a book about it. We knit hams, tv’s plants, etc. To set the bar a little higher regarding my knitting skills I thought of knitting my son. He liked it and we worked together on it.
“The reactions during the process were so diverse from creepy to beautiful that we decided to make some photos in real life to place the weirdness in context. It was a fun art family art project!
“When it was finished we thought it would be a great idea for mothers with too much love for their children and need to cuddle. So they could knit there own cuddly son! My knitted son consists of: a knitted head with cap, hands with nails and watch, knitted trousers, a knitted sweater with an obstinate slogan, knitters sneakers and knitted iPod. Actually the knitted son has characteristics of both my sons. The other one had just grown so much during the process that the smaller one was only able to wear it when it was finished.”
Maybe we've watched too many horror films but we have to admit we would be afraid this fairly creepy fake teenager was going to come to life in the dead of night and smother us in our sleep.
We certainly admire this mum's talent however and think it's sweet she now has a giant teddy son!