Monkey marf? Sconkey scittens? Monkarf?
What would you call a mitten scarf combination - that was also a sock monkey?
My kids have been pleading with me to make them each a knit sock monkey ever since the cute sock monkey in the movie "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium" charmed them into gooey piles of adoring mush.
So I started looking for sock monkey knitting (or crochet) ideas. I wanted a cute sock money pattern (some aren't) that wasn't too difficult. I found out that sock monkeys are popular - very popular - and there are plenty of websites dedicated to sock monkeys of all kinds - even superheros.
When the kids spotted a sock monkey knitting pattern at Michael's craft store a few months back they squealed with glee - and I ended up with two copies of the pattern very quietly added to my shopping basket. The final push to pick up my needles and make a monkey was when a friend of theirs showed up at school with very cute sock monkey mittens.
I decided that sock monkey mittens would be my next project.
The problem is... I've never made mittens. I'm a mitten newbie. Mittens scare me. If I made mittens I knew it would be a struggle - and the kids lose mittens at an alarming rate. The thought of making mittens to have them lose them the next day didn't make me happy.
I joked that I'd have to put the sock monkey mittens on a string so that my kids wouldn't lose them on the first day they had them.
Which started me thinking about making the string for the mittens... into something more durable... thicker... maybe a scarf.
Mittenscarf!
I thought I was so clever inventing a "mittenscarf" - and then I Googled it and found that mittens on a scarf weren't all that weird original as I had thought: cocoknits had mittens on the end of a scarf, DKNY made mittengloves, Ruth Cross has two versions and Peter Jensen offered a designer version of the "mittenscarf".
Original or not, I decided to come up with a mittenscarf sock monkey pattern. It's in the works (post to follow) and my youngest is thrilled and keeps playing with the work-in-progress monkey mittens.
My oldest has asked for a mittenscarf as well - but not a sock monkey mittenscarf - he wants a monster mittenscarf.
I'm still Googling that.
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