Sock monkey

Alright I have got one of the legs sewn up already and I am working on the other one. I have again started by the fold kind of curved the stitch around. I am coming up the in seam. Just one little...

So now I've got two sock monkey arms and a tail here. Looks like a bunch of bananas appropriately. They are all stuffed. Now one thing you can do to make them soft and supple is to kind of...

Well I have got the arms on. They are on a little bit crooked. One is higher than the other. But you know it is folk art. It is a sock monkey. Okay it's not an, it’s not brain surgery so...

So you probably see where this is going and we are going to do the tail now and it's pretty much exactly like sewing one of the legs or one of the arms. You are just sewing up into a tube....

So I've got my ear placed on the side of the head and I've closed it up. I didn't show that step. But I stuffed it and just closed that ear up entirely. And now I am just going...

The head's not stuffed yet but you can kind of imagine what this will look like when the head is filled with stuffing. And you know we kind of got the snout on already so that is good. A...

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...

Alright so I've whipped it almost all the way around but I left a little opening. Why? Because before I close it up I am going to stuff the snout with some stuffing here. I've just...

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...