As well as featuring many colorful photos, the book is about the art, history and business of the American sock monkey. Fox River Mills of Osage is mentioned several times in the opening chapter ...

The result is sock monkey enthusiasts, collectors, and educators now have a detailed go-to book source packed with sock monkey minutiae all about the people, places, and things behind the ...

Here is how to do it. o Use one sock for the head, body, and legs of the monkey and the other sock will be the arms, tail, mouth and ears o Turn socks inside out o Lay one sock with the heel flat ...

Guinness World Records adjudicators Hannah Ortman and Chloe McCarthy visited the Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove ... a day-long event featuring art exhibitions, science demonstrations and the ...

This Sock Monkey isn’t all buttons and fluff; Danner describes it as more Harry Potter and Coraline than Toy Story in tone, with characters who find themselves in peril and a stuffed hero who ...

has nearly 2,100 of the snuggly stuffies Kate Hogan About 35 miles northwest of Chicago, there's some serious monkey business happening. Open since 2022, the Sock Monkey Museum houses nearly ...

This classic American sock monkey is affordable, easy to make and a ton of fun for crafters of all ages. You can use the traditional Rockford Red Heel socks or make one with bright colorful socks.

Finally, a use for all those lost socks! Think beyond the classic sock monkey and turn old stray socks into cute and creative afternoon crafts that the kids will love. Every family has a growing ...

Arlene Okun, the owner and proprietor of the Sock Monkey Museum, joins John Landecker on the show tonight to tell us all about sock monkeys, the history, and the brand new Sock Monkey Museum in Long ...

its full skirt resplendent with 30 sock monkey faces. She's becoming known as "the sock monkey lady." She finds this vaguely disquieting, perhaps because she didn't begin making sock monkeys in ...

An Illinois museum's sock monkey collection has officially set a Guinness World Record. Michael Okun, the co-founder of the Illinois Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove, said he had been working with ...