FORNEY -- This is the socks it starts out with, said seven-year-old Emily Hough, holding two socks of a familiar brown pattern. It takes two socks just to make one sock monkey. Here's an arm, here's ...

Dee Lindner, award winning photographer and author/artisan known as the “Sock Monkey Lady,” has promoted and immortalized sock monkeys through various channels including radio, television and ...

They have been hanging around children's bedrooms and kid's toy boxes for many years. But it wasn't until October that 9-year-old Melissa Godbolt of Hammond finally met and made her first sock monkey.

HAYWARD — Dee Lindner didn't always know she'd become the "Sock Monkey Lady." The first time she recalls having seen a sock monkey was in the early 1970s, when her grandmother gave one to her nephew.

ROCKFORD (WREX) — When you think of Rockford, you may not think about socks or knitting, but during the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, those two things helped the city grow. Sock monkeys may not ...

For Diera White, making sock monkeys for children at the Jackson Interfaith Shelter and Allegiance Health’s Pediatrics Unit felt good — but also hurt. “It’s easy,” said White, 16, a junior at Jackson ...

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 up a ...

HUDSON, Wis. -- Some muses come and go, but for photographer, author and crafts pro Dee Lindner, the red-heeled sock monkey is eternal. “The giggles and smiles my work generates and the sentimental ...