I've always adored sock monkeys. To me, they represent everything awesome, cute, and lovely about homemade crafts. They're such a traditional item. You can't make a sock monkey any other way than with your own two hands, and for that reason, they'll always turn out looking like you really cared about them.

Sock monkeys were always a bit of a puzzle to me. I could never look at a pair of socks and work out how a monkey was made from them. The concept was baffling...yet somehow, it can be done.