Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

[twilightpony]

Half my feathers have been replaced now. I gave myself another good brushing and my coat is starting to look a lot less ratty. Another week of this and I'll look spring fresh. Ha!

Meanwhile Rarity has been busy. She's brushed and trimmed Applejack and Pinkie Pie and made a few dolls that look just like them. She has them posed in a cabinet in her room. Rainbow Dash was a bit trickier and Rarity had to let her brush herself and snip her own hair. Rarity can be persistent and she usually gets what she set out to get.

I asked Rarity if she could make a felted doll that looks like Spike. Rarity looked appraisingly at my fur for a moment, and got to harvesting more lilac colored shed off me as it about matches Spike's lilac scales. My molt is winding down so it took a while, but eventually she gathered enough fine hair with which she could needle felt a small figure. As for the green scales, she will probably dye some white felt green and work it in. Spike is going to be pleased.

Comments

[flareblitzfury]

Good to hear the shedding is starting to wind down!

And Spike is going to so happy!

[twilightpony]

If it's a gift from Rarity, that's a given. Spike worships the ground she walks on.

[flareblitzfury]

Yeah!

[algernon97]

This doll idea's a much better way to recycle the shed hair than that mattress idea.

[twilightpony]

If it catches on, it could become a cottage industry. But I don't think Rarity is going to go get a part of that market. Washing and felting your friend's molt is one thing. Felting the molt of strangers and acquaintances is pushing it. Rarity was mostly just coping with the Spring shed.