Saturday, February 13, 2010

Makin' Monkeys

Today I learned to make sock monkeys.




Jennifer invited about ten of us over. Check out this amazing brunch.



Teacher Joyce (endearingly referred to as Sock Monkey Lady) put together these nice kits. (She's the one in the sock monkey shirt.)



First we cut: body, arms, tail, mouth, ears.



Then we sewed on machines and stuffed.



Then we sewed by hand. First we added ears, and saw very quickly that Joyce’s perfect-looking monkeys came after a lot of practice. None of our little monkeys will win any beauty pageant titles.



Now that our illusions of cute sock monkeys were thoroughly dashed, we added our own little extras like X's for eyes and heart patches on backsides. Our sock monkeys became sock monsters.



Aww, too cute.