Sewing

Hello!
Right  now i am on a bit of a sewing binge! I always collect things to sew but i never really get around to doing it! I have a ton of brightly coloured socks that are just begging me to make them into little monkeys.....
The socks are a story in themselves!
So ok, you know when you go to the store to try on shoes? They usually give you those lame little nylon stocking type foot cover thingys to put on before you put your shoes on right? Not here. At this store they have a box labeled "Try On Socks" , filled with different kinds and colours of socks. So go there and try on shoes, you find yourself with a lovely new pair of lime green socks. Or something similar. Because of coarse, you cant put used socks back in the try on box.....ew, right?
So you get to take them home and make monkeys out of them.
And of coarse i pick up cute socks other places too. There is this place that i call the dump store, that i will tell you all about in a later post.
So right now i am digging through my sock bin to find the perfect sock for the first monkey. I am making a friend for my little pink monkey, not made by me but he is like the cutest monkey ever. He was a gift from my dad.
Anyway i am thinking of a multicolored "Rainbow Monkey" this time. I have made monkeys before, some of the brown sock sort. This time I just bought a bag of stuffing just for this purpose. I got the cheapest Walmart Stuffing. It was like 3.00 for a 12 oz bag. The hardest part is choosing the socks. Traditional sock monkeys are made out of socks with long ankle parts, so to speak. So these little shorty socks that everyone wears now take a bit more imagination to construct monkeys from. And of coarse. more socks. I will post when i choose my socks, and get ready for pictures too, they are coming!