Move over, yarn bombing! Your days in the spotlight are dwindling, as much as we were having a ball with you!
Emily Stoneking of Burlington, Vermont, has created a substitute for biological animal dissection by knitting the individual organs and then the corpses.
While she is still honing her craft, specifically the guts—which she has deemed "blobby and random"—she creates many lifelike anatomical creatures, including frogs and mice, two very commonly dissected creatures in biology classes.
Hey girl, what's hoppening?
She's also begun making human body parts, which only makes her cooler, IMO.
Her Etsy page (described as "I'm not a scientist but I play one on the internet (sic)") is full of all kinds of nerdy, sometimes-macabre goodness, such as a dissectible Easter Bunny or, hey, the alien autopsy we've all secretly wanted to perform.
Interestingly, she doesn't view her work as very scientific.
According to an interview with boredpanda, she says, “The question I get asked most often is: ‘Are you a scientist?’ And the answer is a resounding, no! I have a historian’s brain, not a scientist’s brain, I’m afraid."
I beg to differ, as these "brains" are not mutually exclusive.
How cool would it be if these took the place of actually animals in classrooms? Not only would it save many little lives, they could probably be reusable. Huzzah! (Side note: I don't endorse replacing human cadavers for knit ones. A doctor might start pulling on your intestines and everything could unravel.)
Keep on knittin', Ms. Stoneking! Your work is lovely and I don't like to be strung along!
(Sorry about all of the puns, I realize that they needle some people.)