June Fraser Thistle of Bellingham works with other volunteers and with fellow employees of Western Washington University to make sock monkeys for foster children. Some of the monkeys have “hair” made ...
The Gazette: Sewing smiles: Williamsburg group makes sock monkeys for pediatric patients
Colony Bend Elementary Students donate "Sock Monkeys" Students at Colony Bend Elementary School created "sock monkeys" to donate to area children's homes. Each "sock monkey" is personalized and has a ...
FORNEY -- This is the socks it starts out with, said seven-year-old Emily Hough, holding two socks of a familiar brown pattern. It takes two socks just to make one sock monkey. Here's an arm, here's ...
Sock monkeys, the red-mouthed, yarn-topped toys with a wide smile, were born during the Great Depression and handcrafted for the working class.... (Sock) Monkey Business: A Festival For Iconic Toy ...
WILLIAMSBURG - Two years ago, when Jayna Snodgrass, then 6, suffered severe burns in a kitchen accident, she went through months of painful surgery and rehab - with Lulu, her sock monkey, by her side.
Globe Gazette: Sock Monkey Mania! Fox River Mills featured in new book about sock-made critters
SAGE — The old-fashioned, handcrafted sock monkey dolls made with the original Rockford Red Heel socks from Fox River Mills have become a favorite piece of “Americana” over the years. Now, the Osage ...
Sock Monkey Mania! Fox River Mills featured in new book about sock-made critters
HAYWARD — Dee Lindner didn't always know she'd become the "Sock Monkey Lady." The first time she recalls having seen a sock monkey was in the early 1970s, when her grandmother gave one to her nephew.