More Sock Monkeys

Wanted to show you a couple sock monkeys that I've made over the last several months. As always, I've given some as gifts, one for a charity fund-raiser for bid, sold some, and here they are in all their glory. They seldom make it out the door without a little photo shoot. My big bald beautiful burley husband usually comments, "You're a dork!" while I'm doing that part.

I should tell you where I get all their cute clothing. Well, turns out I'm not so handy on the sewing machine (I have two! One for leather HA!). I made the cotton shirt and hat for the "Grateful Dead" Monkey. Made the outfit for the "hooker" monkey (that one was commissioned by a friend). That about sums up my home-made stuff.

I am currently working on a kilt for the "piper" monkey for my friend's 30th birthday that I missed, and whose expertise (along with his lovely wife) is seen herein on this blog. I'm not so good at creating sites, either, turns out, tee hee. (Anybody have an extra set of miniature bagpipes hanging around?)

Most of the clothing is, of course, you bright folks probably already figured it out, bear clothes. I find the best selection at Michael's Craft Store. I think there's one in every town these days. They carry the cute "Red Hat" outfit I blogged about for a minute once. That's from a company called (I think) Tweakie P. Sooooo cute!

I currently have 10 naked monkeys in the works. The curly jute hair is for the girls, unless you have a long-haired friend of any gender you'd like one for. I will surely donate at least one of them, but, let me know if you just have to have a monkey of your own. If you want to make one and have the socks, but not the instructions, I have paper instructions that came with all the socks I've stock-piled, out the waazzzooooo! And I'll mail them to you for free [the instructions, not the socks....but you ARE brighter than I thought!]. But, I think you can get them on the internet pretty easily.

Anything else you want to know about sock monkeys, just ask. If I don't know, I can sure find out. That's half the fun! Just finding out, dont' you think?