Arlene Okun bought a cute stuffed monkey made out of a pair of socks at a gift store 16 years ago. That led to her seeking the plush primates on eBay and via flea markets, and eventually opening ...

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 ...

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 result is sock monkey enthusiasts, collectors, and educators now have a detailed go-to book source packed with sock monkey minutiae all about the people, places, and things behind the ...

“Sock monkey dolls make everyone smile,” said Dee Lindner, who is known as the Sock Monkey Lady. Lindner, 51, makes and sells old-fashioned sock monkeys using the same red-heeled work socks ...

The firm was still in business at the end of the 1920s. Soft sock monkey Q: My grandmother made me a sock monkey when I was a little girl, in the early 1950s. I thought my monkey was one of a kind ...

OSAGE — The old-fashioned, handcrafted sock monkey dolls made with the original Rockford Red Heel socks from Fox River Mills have become a favorite piece of “Americana” over the years.

An Illinois museum's sock monkey collection has officially set a Guinness World Record. Michael Okun, the co-founder of the Illinois Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove, said he had been working with ...

Used sweaters. Material for clothing small enough for a preemie baby. Directions: Cut socks to make body parts for a monkey, with a red sock heel becoming the monkey’s red lips. Sew or knit hats ...

Huntington collects sock monkeys. Actually, she collects Santas, too, but it’s the monkeys that separate this house from others. You can see the monkey party on the Dec. 14 Snohomish Historical ...

Guinness World Records adjudicators Hannah Ortman and Chloe McCarthy visited the Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove on Thursday and verified the collection included 2,098 different sock monkeys.