To begin, turn the sock inside out. Working on sock No. 1: Sew a seam ½ inch on both sides of the center of sock starting 3 inches from the white heel and across the end of the top.

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 ...

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 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.

OSAGE - 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.

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 ...