The sock monkey became so popular in the 1940s and 1950s that the pattern was inserted into sock packages. There have been several books on how to make many different kinds of creatures from these ...

The iconic socks were used to create the granddaddy of homespun kitsch. In the 1950s, the company got a patent and included the Sock Monkey doll pattern with each pair of socks; people went bananas.

o Make the mouth/nose from the heel of the second sock. Cut it out, stuff it, and sew it onto the “face” of the first sock o Sew the bottom edge to the monkey’s chin.

The group, with about three dozen volunteers, have spent an estimated 40,000 hours stuffing, stitching and sewing the sock monkeys over the past quarter century.

Cross Middle School students are using the healing power of arts and crafts to cheer up ailing children. Art teacher Carolyn Reece is having her 125 seventh- and eighth-graders sew monkey puppets ...

Her sock-monkey “action photography” — featuring the lanky stuffed animals in a variety of creative poses and settings — adorn everything from her bank-check designs to her greeting cards ...

Cutting and sewing a pair of worn out work socks, they created their own Sock Monkey dolls. They stuffed them with whatever was available, like sawdust, nylons, rice, or foam and decorated them.