Article: Jennifer Strunge

Cotton Monster,

www.cottonmonster.com

Specialty: Plush sculptures made of recycled fabrics

Price range: Baseball-size pieces are $25; other toys run $35 to $100.

Jennifer Strunge spends about eight hours a day in one apricot- colored room in her Baltimore home, snipping up old shirts and blankets and burning up her Bernina.

But the room looks more like a chimerical toy store than a crafting sweatshop. Everywhere you look, there is plush: sea creatures with striped bellies and droopy, bottom-feeder eyes; gummy snaggletooth monsters with polka-dot foreheads; baseball-size eyeball sculptures. In one corner, in fact, there's a pink plush mountain made entirely of eyeballs (that one is not so ...

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