I was all ready to take pictures of how to make my new bestselling
item last night when we had an emergency situation. While changing my 5 year
olds bedding I found poor tickle monkey hidden under the pillow with so many
holes that his stuffing was starting to fall out. I asked son why he hadn’t
told me and he said he was afraid I would throw the poor monkey in the bin.
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| Tickle Monkey |
It may surprise people to know but despite the number of
monkeys and other thinks I make hand sewing, I am not a very neat sewer.
Tickle monkey is almost 3 years old now and has done a lot
of tickling in that time. He first came into being when my son saw a pair of
knee high socks in a shop and I commented on how long the legs would be if we
made them into a monkey, he kept on about it for a couple of days so I gave in
and made him.
To give a better idea of his size, the black body section is the foot of the sock. He was only my 4th monkey and my sewing is not the
best, so I got fed up hand sewing his legs and used my new sewing machine, the
problem was that I had bought cheap thread which is why he now needs repaired.
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| Ladder stitch, now you see it |
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| Now you don't |
Repairing seems in toys (or anything) is easier than most
people think. The name of the stitch is a ladder stitch as before you pull the
thread tight the look like a ladder. ( hard to see in the picture due to white thread on a white background)The other benefit of this stitch is that it
is almost invisible, even when done by as messy a sewer as me.
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| Back with his friends |
