Jellybean got a little aggressive with dress up play and his favorite sock monkey suffered the consequences. His little hair didn’t fair well and there were tears. But no fear Mom to the rescue!!
A little bit of heavy duty button hole thread, a needles and sock monkey was back to normal. Jellybean was impressed with my “magic” skills.
Nevermind its still 90 degrees in Kansas and he’s wearing a full coverage ear flap hat. Kids man!
Happy Mending!!
The Monkey with no name made it to Christmas!
All the yarn and needle notes are on my project page here in Ravelry. I will tell you I have enough yarn to make a mirror match Monkey for Jellybean. Nevertheless the Monkey was well received!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas!
Happy Knitting!!
Last night Jellybean was enthralled with playing games with his father. So I snuck away to this…
The Grocery Girls latest podcast and….
Starting Jellybean’s toy monkey while snuggling up with my fur baby. The pattern named him Gilbert but I think I’ll let Jellybean name him officially. So right now he is “TBD” the monkey, lol.
Happy Knitting!!
Jellybean fell in love with shop sample toy monkey. It was the Monkey Business toy by Chris de Longpre. So we bought yarn and I snapped a photo of the pattern.
Well, I investigated the pattern when I got home and discovered it was knit flat and seamed. And the appendages were very small as in the number of stitches. And for a $6 pattern…..I didn’t want to work that hard. So I did some Ravelry digging and came up with this pattern.
It’s Gilbert the Sock Monkey by Jack Knits. It’s knit in the round with larger stitch count appendages that won’t be as fiddly. I will still have to sew on the finished pieces but at least I wont have to seam them too.
I didn’t tell Jellybean about the switcheroo….I’m banking on that he forgot what the original looks like and is just happy to get a toy!
Happy Knitting!!
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