MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Rebecca Yaker may have been known for her sock monkey fashion, but she's now moving on. She can work wonders with a yard of fabric and now she wants to prove that you can as well.

June Fraser Thistle of Bellingham works with other volunteers and with fellow employees of Western Washington University to make sock monkeys for foster children. Some of the monkeys have “hair” made ...

Punch the words “sock monkey” into the eBay search portal and you’ll get back 12 pages of sock monkey stuff for sale. Sock monkey clothes, sock monkey books, sock monkey drawings and sock monkeys ...

The sock monkey is a piece of Americana born in the 1920s when the original Rockford Red Heel sock was first turned into animal dolls. This particular sock was manufactured as a work sock in 1915 and ...

The gift of a blue sock monkey to a child years ago eventually led to a collection of artwork and the compilation of a book dedicated to the folk art. Goshen native Bonnie Kraus Connelly recently ...

Adele Jedynak makes monkey sounds to a group of kids who are steps away from playing Sock Monkey bowling and plush-primate parachuting. It's all part of the Sock Monkey Madness Festival, the eighth ...

Sock monkeys were hanging from the rafters Thursday at the Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove. They also were spilling out of barrels, hanging from decorative trees and tucked into innumerable nooks, ...

The Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove, Ill. About 35 miles northwest of Chicago, there's some serious monkey business happening. Open since 2022, the Sock Monkey Museum houses nearly 2,100 of the plush ...

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Do you know where your sock monkey is? Those creepy little monkeys with Angelina Jolie lips are all the rage now and if you don t believe it, visit Lancaster Museum of Art, where an entire exhibit is ...

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