Sock monkeys!

Sharon_1970_2

I thought I would have a go at these too. They are lovely and will make great presents for my kids at christmas.

Here is my first attempt

maria08k

Oh My God Sharon_1970 she is the cutest little thing ive ever seen!!! Did you use normal size socks or knee length ones? You've done a fabulous job!!!

NemoToad

These are brilliant. I'm going to make one for my boyfriend for Christmas. He'll be doubly pleased as I'll have to hide upstairs while I make it so it will give him plenty of time to be on his own and play his geeky computer games that I'm always nagging him about!

RustyFlange

Sharon that is stunning! Well done! Mine is *STILL* sat in the draw half completed.

Just quickly though I passed a surf kind of shop earlier on ... they had 4 or 5 sock monkeys on the shelves and were charginf £15 for them. That is shocking as us ladies over here know that they cost nowhere near that amount!

Sharon_1970_2

I used just ordinary ladies socks, I think they are about mid calf legnth. I got 5 pairs in Primark for £2.00

maria08k

Thankyou Sharon_1970 have just ordered myself some stuffing off Ebay and am going to make a start on making one for my fellas birthday Army Hamper. Going to do a camoflauge one if i can find some socks for it.

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

I haven't posted a photo on here before so I hope this works:-

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/63659254

This is the link to the photo of my sock monkey and tiger! (My daughter didn't want a monkey!)

Whoever said they are more fiddly to make than they look was right though, it's quite difficult to machine sew the sock fabric and my stripes don't quite line up as a result :-(

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

Sharon_1970 wrote: »

I thought I would have a go at these too. They are lovely and will make great presents for my kids at christmas.

Here is my first attempt

Ohhhh Sharon - she's gorgeous! She'll have all the boy monkeys after her!

chillin_nutta

hehe that made me smile the monkeys are fab, just in the middle of doing my first ever one, and its so easy the only thing im struggling with is the stuffing i dont have any. would cotton wool work??? not that i have any of that either lol. i do have old tights but not sure if they would work properly?

i am eyeing up my pillow at the moment, and thinking....will i????

nutty xx

shezmit

Would anyone be interested in making some if i provide toy filling and the socks, as i would like to use them for fundraising to raise money for premature babies,

this is what we do

http://preemiesuk.googlepages.com/home.html

i can also provide the buttons for the eyes etc

please let me know

shelley