Meet the 'green' monkey aka.. Mr. Dangles

iwouldratherbeknitti · May 10, 2009, 2:31am

I ‘sort of’ used the Mr. Dangly pattern – but, I did make a lot of modifications… I knit it in the round/etc.

It is for a best friend’s birthday… we’re both teachers and have always joked that trying to teach the last month of school (elementary children) is about as successful as teaching a classroom full of monkeys… (since, most of the children seem to ‘already’ be on summer vacation… once it gets warm!)

So here he is… I took him to school and took a lot of photos of him playing on the playground and other locations. If you want to see more photos of him… go to this posting on my blog:

AH1OZ · May 10, 2009, 5:03am

i love knitting monkeys! and yours is adorable

hookedonknitting · May 10, 2009, 9:37am

is it hard to knit monkeys?

MerigoldinWA · May 10, 2009, 9:57am

What a fun little green monkey! I’ll bet he was a big hit on the playground.

iwouldratherbeknitti · May 10, 2009, 11:56am

No, it’s not hard to knit monkeys. The pattern (Mr. Dangly- do a search on the Internet- or if you are in Ravelry… you can do a pattern search for it there) has directions for knitting him flat… but, I knitted him in the round- so, I’d have less seams to sew up. It only took off and on for about 5 days… and I only worked on him at the most 3 hours a couple of nights and most of the time… only an hour or less?

Truthfully, the sewing up… isn’t as much fun as the knitting- however, when you finish him/her it is best to just suck it up and sew it together right then… (if possible) I stayed up late to sew the little guy together… since, I had to mail him.

Thanks for the compliments… and a few of my students wanted me to make them a monkey once they saw the green monkey … ha ha :roflhard: At that point, I wasn’t in the mood to knit [B]another monkey for anyone![/B]

That’s what happens when you knit on a schedule and then sew the monkey up in a couple of hours… staying up late to do so… :roflhard: (however, that is a nice compliment from a child, right?)

knittingymnast · May 10, 2009, 2:31pm

That’s so cute!

ArtLady1981 · May 10, 2009, 2:52pm

Adorable! Love him to pieces!

wezyus · May 10, 2009, 10:33pm

its cute n thnks

ritaw · May 10, 2009, 11:12pm

Love , love , love your Mr Dangles:)

margz3 · May 11, 2009, 6:03am

Adorable! What better place for photos of a monkey than on a playground!

GirlChris · May 11, 2009, 1:24pm

He is so darned cute!

lexymarin · May 14, 2009, 4:02pm

That is super adorable!!! :mrgreen:

knititgood · May 15, 2009, 6:46am

aww, i love him. I’ve been wanting to try that pattern for awhile now, maybe i will now.

Thanks for posting this. I’m now knitting one for my son for his first birthday(which is in 11 days)

iwouldratherbeknitti · May 17, 2009, 6:28am

Are you knitting it in the round? I hope so-- it will go together faster!

iwouldratherbeknitti · May 17, 2009, 6:30am

Thanks! I got an email from my friend and she loved her green monkey!

Now, I want to make another one-- but, I need to knit a couple of birthday gifts for some June birthdays first.

gotta_knit · May 17, 2009, 11:58am

Can you give them monkeys?
He’s so cute! Not surprised your friend loves him.

iwouldratherbeknitti · May 18, 2009, 9:29am

No, as much as I would love to give them monkeys… (they were on the trip to Bali w/ me last year when we went to the monkey jungle and a couple of monkeys jumped up on me) but, there is no way… since, i’m in the last 4 weeks of teaching school for this year… that i have the time or the energy to knit 2 more monkeys! I’m also suppose to get several crates of household goods w/in this time frame. Oh boy… that should be fun… I’ll just make a path and walk around everything until school is out.

sue_in_canada · May 18, 2009, 10:00am

I just checked your blog. Your garden looks beautiful. So nice to see everything starting to bloom.