Yellow Belly
He may have a yellow belly, but don’t call him “chicken”! Or he’ll go proper mental. Mr.Yellow has a short fuse and a big mouth - the Jo Peche of the sock monster world lets say. Stay well back or you’ll feel the rip of steel zippy teeth ripping through your ankles… He’s a mean little bugger.
A relatively new addition to the household, i’ve just gotten around to taking his picture. If he went on the BBC series “Who do you think you are?” i wouldn’t be surprised to find a certain zip faced loud mouth, and a boy made of sack in his lineage ;)
Yellow Belly is made from American Apparel thigh length socks ( for extra big head-ness).
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Said, on April 23rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm :
He is sooo cool - I love him :o)
Said, on April 23rd, 2009 at 9:15 pm :
Looking great! I wonder what happens if you unzip him… ;)
Said, on April 23rd, 2009 at 9:51 pm :
Oooh no. He has a foul mouth. Never unzip him!
Said, on April 23rd, 2009 at 11:01 pm :
Oh he is very, very cool. Love the zipper on his mouth - beats soap for a foul mouth remedy :)
Said, on April 25th, 2009 at 9:00 am :
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Said, on April 30th, 2009 at 7:55 am :
Very cool. I LOVE the zipper on his mouth. How do you make him? Please send to ninastar_conducto@yahoo.com, thanks! (:
Said, on May 11th, 2009 at 1:39 pm :
please can you tell me how you made them? x
Said, on May 13th, 2009 at 11:58 am :
Hey Katy,
To make the basic shape there’s some downloadable instructions i made here:
http://www.monster-munch.com/how-to-make-a-sock-monster/
It’s an A3 poster that goes through the steps to make a monkey or rabbit shaped monster.
Yellow Belly is a little different because of the size of his head. The trick there is to get some really long socks - thigh length American Apparel ones are good. You slit down the side of one sock to make a wider piece of material to work with. Then you fold it over to make a double thickness square chunk and trip the rest off. With this square, if you imagine sewing a circle shape that fills most of the area, then that’s essentially his head. To give him a bit of extra 3D-ness, i cut to triangle slices out of the either side of the circle then sew it back up. That bulges the face out a little more.
How to make his basic body shape is described in the instruction poster. But feel free to go crazy and adapt them, try new things. That’s the fun of it!
Nicky