Comments on: Monkey Love

By: The Year in Review: 2009 « knitnut.net

The Year in Review: 2009 « knitnut.net — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:11:52 +0000

[...] Barbie turned fifty. I lost the Tofu Challenge. We played board games in public. A lump was found in my breast. My layoff notice was not revoked and my 18-year job came to an end. I made a sock monkey. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:33:45 +0000

I had a dream last night that a sock monkey was eating my head, so now I can’t help but flee from sock monkies.

By: knitnut.net » Tattoos, surgery and a naked redhead

knitnut.net » Tattoos, surgery and a naked redhead — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:16:39 +0000

[...] first. There were about forty or fifty geocachers there. The second was a going-away party for the Sock Monkey Lady. She’s going away, back to the Sunshine Coast. Goodbye Sock Monkey Lady! We’ll miss [...]

By: roro

roro — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:28:18 +0000

I think attending a sock monkey workshop after being laid off is about the most awesome thing you could do – waaaaaay better than the 3 day eggnog bender I went on after being laid off a few years back. Hope the monkeys bring play, inspiration and warm fuzziness to this new start!

By: Lisa in Toronto

Lisa in Toronto — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:32:53 +0000

I hope the sock monkey workshop was a somewhat useful antidote to the layoff. Sorry to hear about that bad news, but I think you will seize the moment and turn it into something positive.

I took a sock monkey workshop a couple of years ago. The pieces came pre-cut, and the teacher was good, but I was so slow at sewing it took me 5 or 6 hours to put it together. I love the results, but will not be making another one anytime soon. At least I didn’t have to knit the sock!

By: grace

grace — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:54:43 +0000

Of course you can add things to your list retroactively! It’s your list. Question is could I stroke it off my list by living vicariously through you?

By: mudmama

mudmama — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:42:16 +0000

SQUEEEE!!! They are ADORABLE and I agree the sweetest people I know make sock monkeys.

You should know all three of your nephews here are now demanding I make them a sock monkey hat.

By: Milan

Milan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:05:38 +0000

If Emily had been with me, I am pretty sure we would have ended up staying for the monkey making.

Indeed, she has been semi-neglecting her studies lately in order to make a knitted teddy bear.

By: Pearl

Pearl — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:44:34 +0000

A sock monkey workshop and I missed it (head slap) I’ve been poking around looking for those red-toed socks to make my sock monkey a mate or two.

My sock monkey has travel pages of his Ottawa adventures from a few years ago: http://www.geocities.com/pagehalffull/MonkeyingAround.html

By: zoom!

zoom! — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:32:43 +0000

Jo, I almost didn’t go because I forgot about it, but then GC heard about it on Michael B’s show on CBC. Phew. I could photocopy the pattern for you if you like.

WC – I love that you know exactly what you would take. Me, I’d panic and grab the closest thing to the door, which would probably be a single shoe or a broom or something.

Deb, I remember that scarf you knit….maybe I should take care of the baby’s hat.

Julia, I know! They’re totally different.

Coyote, I had to google monkey love to figure out what in the world you were referring to.

Don, I’m glad you checked it out. Maybe I’ll run into you there someday. Raw Sugar has a Facebook group too, which is how you can find out about their upcoming events.

Thank you Valerie. I really like them too (and I don’t say that about *everything* I make!).

XUP, that’s exactly what I told GC – that his monkey looked like Homer. He didn’t really see the resemblance, but I think it’s downright uncanny. You couldn’t make a sock monkey that looked more like Homer if you tried. I’m glad you see it too.

Oma, I think they are. Wait’ll they get arms, they’ll be all over each other.

Grace, can I add it to my 101 things list retroactively and then cross it off? Or is that cheating?

elmaks – sockwell day, ha ha ha!

Thank you nursemyra! I think you should make an anatomically correct sock monkey.

Arden – I’ll tell them they’re awesome for you. (Duncan always likes it when I pass on your compliments to him.)

Milan, I know, you can’t just stumble into sock monkey territory when you’re in hydrogen bomb mode. But, for what it’s worth, I would have loved to have seen the sock monkey you would have created.

Jo – Socks Pistols! Ha ha. Do you still have them?

Janet, well, hmm, it still exists, but you probably wouldn’t recognize it anymore. There’s a president, four vice-presidents, an EA, a co-op student and one union member.