Is not a monkey

Alright now I am going to cut a couple of ears out of this. And so this is not really tricky but it is just a little detailed. I'm going to fold, I mean it's already folded from the...

Alright now I have got both legs sewed up except for a little hole here. And this next part is a little invasive to our little sock monkey. I usually don't like it. But now what you have to do...

You don't have to use the classic sock monkey sock. A lot of people like to for a couple of reasons. This is a sock that's known as a red heel sock. I know they're made by a...

Alright now I am going to cut the tail out. And cutting the tail out is basically like cutting one of the arms out. But let's look at this piece of the sock here. I mean actually I can get a...

Here's the little body of our sock monkey. Still not much here yet, but we're going to lay it over here. Now we go to the other sock. The first thing I want to cut out is the piece...

Sock monkeys are pretty simple little craft thing to make. Really all you need is a pair of socks. A lot of people like to use the classic sock monkey sock, which is kind of what I've got...

So here is our second sock with the snout cut out of it. And so out of this sock we are going to cut two arms and a tail and some ears if we want some ears. So at this point you just make a decision....

So now our little Fitzcarraldo has got ears. I will have my opera house. So now we will give him some arms and a tail. We are going to stuff all three of them. Just remember you usually put more...

So I am now whip stitching one of the arms on. As you can see I have got stuffing throughout the whole torso here and that just gives me a little bit of shape so that I can you know get the arms nice...

And here we go Fitzcarraldo the sock monkey is complete. He's naked and if you want to make an outfit for him you are going to have to take care of that next. I am not going to do it on this...