Woman in Denmark Knitted A Life Size Replica Of Her Son After He Said He Didn't Want To Cuddle With Her Anymore
(Source) A mom in Denmark has come up with an unusual way to keep her son cuddly. Her teenager has outgrown cuddle time, so she created a knitted version of her son – complete with iPod, headsets, and his hat.
She likes to create “unknittable” things. That has expanded to this life-sized replica of her child that she can hang out with and cuddle anytime she wants.
Marieke Voorsluijsi also got some critical remarks online from posters who thought the images were … well, creepy.
“I like to knit weird things,” the woman told INSIDE EDITION in an email exchange. The project was a tongue-in-cheek enterprise she completed with her son and they both had a good laught while doing it, she said.
“I felt like knitting my son, he liked it and we worked together on it,” she said. “The reactions during the process were so diverse – from creepy to beautiful – hat we decided to make some photos in real life to place the weirdness in context,” she said.
I kind of like this chick. I wrote the blog out saying her son should run and run fast because he’s a couple years away from being a skin suit but the more I thought about it the more I realized this lady is just a good old fashioned problem solver. She had a problem, not being able to cuddle with her son (this is weird but its Denmark and Europeans are all touchy and shit), so she came up with a solution. She said it right there.
“I felt like knitting my son, he liked it and we worked together on it,”
She felt like knitting her son. What’s weird about that? You got an itch, you scratch it. You got a cut, you put a band aid on it. You got a son that won’t cuddle anymore, you knit a life size replacement son to sleep with. She wanted to knit her very much alive, grown son so that she could spoon it. If that’s weird then I don’t want to be normal. Just knitting other human beings, big deal. Nothing to see here guys*.
*I wrote this blog because I feel like this lady reads all the criticism and even though I’m thousands of miles away I’m a little scared for my life.