rock lobster

Well, Sock Monkey...but rock lobster sounds better really.  Finally a project for Loobyloo's Month of Softies that I wanted to make, a sock monkey.  Now these sort of creepy, vaguely ugly stuffed toys had lived in the dim recesses of my memory...but were brought to the fore when Claire posted them as the July project for MOS.  I made one on Wednesday, and desperately wanted her to be a girl...but in the end he's a boy.  His tail - once sewn up, stuffed and attached looks like a penis.  I kid you not.  He had giant, Mick Jagger lips and he's really rather obscene.  The kids think he's a riot.  He's a bit too risque for the delicate sensibilities of the MOS crowd, so I'm going to make another one this weekend.  I'm not going to steal a pair of Scott's socks to use this time either...I'm going to Target to get some project specific socks tomorrow.

Photos of my first attempt up on flickr soon.

posted by: blytheswideshut at July 15, 2005 12:53 | link | comments |

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