The Tangled Arts

Yesterday, I finished a Sock Monkey.

All Ready for Easter

Don’t you just love the bows on her ears?

While I love the finished product, I did not love the process as much.

I don’t know why, but the whole thing seemed fiddly, tedious, and n0t at all portable like a good pair of socks usually turns out to be. Perhaps because these sock Monkeys are knit out of BMFA STR Heavyweight and so I kept thinking the whole thing should have fit a little easier into my knitting bag (which is absurd, really, since a sock monkey is a lot bigger than a sock) and I hated the part where I had to work around the stuffing.

However, the finished Monkey is really, very cute and will be well loved by my own little Monkey.

Pattern details here.

And, not to be left out, Bunny will also be thrilled that I have finally finished something for her. I cast off a new cardigan in the perfect spring color; yellow.

Spring, Here I Come

She picked this yarn out almost a year ago and asked for a sweater. Procrastination is expensive… I had to go back to my LYS and pick up a new skein because she has grown so much over the last year that I ran right out of yarn.

This pattern took me just under a month and although it was tedious at times, I have to say overall, I really like the finished project.

Pattern details here.

I seem to be in a spring-y mood. I cast on for a new spring sock.

Monkey in Repose

The yellow and purple remind me of crocuses which will shortly be in bloom. I can’t wait.

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