Your toys are too cute. I am with you, I would love to see others projects like yours. I use to be a cloth doll and soft toymaker but once I got hooked on fsl, I put my fabric away.
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Sewinhuggs

Now now now! don't do anything rash! There might be dust on it by now! ha ha ha!

Love ya - love Chris

I love your monkeys! Wish I could make such cuties for my new grandbaby! But she does have one monkey someone else made. Keep it up...they are adorable!!

You can jomp back to embroidery anytime you want - we don't have to help you with more idea's Lyn - you have plenty. Hehehe@

Lyn your little cuties are so sweet. no one coud make them better. What a pity you did not discovered them while aiting so despereatly for your machine :o)
Had once dl a tutorial from a big german journal to make sockanimals. It is in german but a profi like you could manage it with the pics ;o)
There are 9 pages and you get the pattern when ou click on the pic of the animal (I saved them as jpg).
Greetings, Bettina

I would help you Lyn, but I don't have a pattern.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. LOL!!!

http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Rockford_Sock_Elephant
http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Rockford_Sock_Monkey
http://frettanfriends.blogspot.com/2011/05/sock-elephant-free-pattern-tutorial.html
I hope these are of some interest. :)

My Mum used to make golliwog dolls, always called Sambo, for the children in the family. She'd find the best of the old black socks worn by the men in the family and create wonderful, friendly, warm, little people that we all loved. Those little dolls lived forever and I often wonder who has my children's black dolls now. Mum always embroidered them in red - just black sock fabric and red wool, no clothes, just embroidered buttons and a line where the jacket might have ended. No special filling, just cut up old socks or fabric.

That's such a lovely memory. I wonder if I can find the pattern on the internet to get a little doll out of a man's sock....

Alma.

I tried the sock monkey once. Even bought the special red heeled socks. When I cut into them they unraveled so bad i ended up with the whole mess in the trash.

Don't think I could make them, but I was thinking of you when I went to the Dollar Tree here, and saw all of those types of socks - from ones for babies, to adult sizes - What wonderful colors they had And I know they are comfy to wear - that is what I use. on my feet in the winter months here.

Here are some directins that may help you. :)
http://www.squidoo.com/sock_doll

Here is another one.

gonna have to look these up I ve never heard of sock toys .

http://www.karensvariety.com/ARTICLES/SockDolls/SockDolls.htm

Yayy I worked it out...twice..doing the happy dance :)