Mr. Monkey

That's Mr. Monkey and Adrienne's felt crown.

I remember finding a pair of brown socks in sock monkey colors from the $2 store. I bought it right away with the intention of making a sock monkey but then I got really lazy and the socks had been sitting in my craft box for almost a year until my husband found them and thought they were for him but called them "too hideous" to be worn to work. LOL. So I told him I was supposed to make a monkey out of it and he gave me this funny look and then stuffed the socks back in my craft box.

Anyway, shortly after that, I just had that rush of creative juices flowing and whipped out my sewing machine and started stitching away. The toughest part about making the sock monkey was trying to turn the tail, arms and legs inside out. No wait. Make that right side out (because you sew it after you turn it inside out. CONFUSED MUCH?






Well anyway you get the picture. I just followed the online tutorials and turned the hideous brown socks into a friend! Halfway through stitching up the monkey, my sewing machine went kaput! I had to finish it's arm and tail by hand. It wasn't hard at all but it took a little bit longer once the sewing machine was out of the picture.






A friend's son saw the sock monkey we made and asked if he could bring "Moo-Moo" home. (He named it right away-- that's how attached he was to our Mr. Monkey! So I ended up making him one (a slightly smaller version) because I was incapacitated by my sewing machine mishap. And I even made his monkey some felt food lunch so it wouldn't go hungry... fried shrimp noodles!





Since then Ive been collecting socks that I feel would make great sock animals but I haven't found time to make them. I also haven't gotten my sewing machine fixed so maybe once I get that done, I might actually get around to making more sock animals!. I even got the book "Sock and Glove" for inspiration. There are lots of sock animal ideas that I still haven't gotten around to do. But man, if you just do a "sock animal" search on etsy you'll find dozens and dozens of the cutest sock animals. Ever. They use colourful socks with stripes or polka dots or little hearts on them and they look so professionally done. My sewing skills don't come close at all!