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My Sock Dolls

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Fairycakes Wed 03-Jan-24 19:56:28
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I was busy just before Christmas, making sock dolls for the grandchildren, one of whom is quite grown up now. They proved popular and were fun to make. I used odd socks that were sitting in a drawer. Goodness knows what happened to their partners 🤔😁. There are plenty of 'how to' videos on YouTube if anyone fancies having a go.

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Chocolatelovinggran Wed 03-Jan-24 20:06:24

They look fun Fairycakes .

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Ilovecheese Wed 03-Jan-24 20:22:43

Cute!

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Ali23 Wed 03-Jan-24 22:29:06

Brilliant!

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crazyH Wed 03-Jan-24 22:31:26

How talented !

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Grannybags Wed 03-Jan-24 22:52:35

They look really good. What a great idea!

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Joane123 Wed 03-Jan-24 22:57:22

They are fabulous.

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Whiff Thu 04-Jan-24 06:31:06

They are brilliant. At my mixed media craft group today will tell them about them.

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Grams2five Thu 04-Jan-24 06:50:15

These are so
Cute ! I quite love their little hats !

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keepcalmandcavachon Thu 04-Jan-24 07:46:29

Fab, they look like tiny super hero's!

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DanniRae Thu 04-Jan-24 07:53:31

I LOVE them!! smile

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ginny Thu 04-Jan-24 08:59:07

They are great !
I have made sick monkeys and snowmen .

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lixy Thu 04-Jan-24 09:07:55

Oooh I love those, what a great idea.
An incentive to buy less boring socks in the future!

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Witzend Thu 04-Jan-24 09:09:00

What a clever idea - I’d never heard of sock dolls. Yours is lovely!

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honeyrose Thu 04-Jan-24 09:14:24

Sick monkeys, eh Ginny?! grin

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Fairycakes Thu 04-Jan-24 09:25:53

Thank you all for your kind comments. I have now bought a new pair of socks with flamingos on, to make one for my daughter. She has a passion for anything flamingo 😁

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Redhead56 Thu 04-Jan-24 10:20:10

They are absolutely gorgeous!

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JackyB Thu 04-Jan-24 10:40:20
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I like them - what size were the socks, though? They must be man-size or if not, that is some very intricate work!

Here's a teddy I made out of one of my DGS's socks when the other one had a huge hole in it. He loved it. Made without any pattern, just dashed it off while he was staying here.

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Witzend Thu 04-Jan-24 10:48:16

Love that, JackyB!

I can’t help thinking of some years ago, when I finally went through the ‘odd socks’ bag, accumulated for quite a while, counted 76 IIRC, did manage to pair a few up, but all the rest went to the textile recycling.

They were mostly dh’s pretty boring ones, though, so wouldn’t have made very cuddly looking dolls anyway.

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ginny Thu 04-Jan-24 10:55:04

honeyrose

Sick monkeys, eh Ginny?! grin

🤪

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Fairycakes Thu 04-Jan-24 10:59:51

Aww so cute, JackyB

The santa sock doll I made was from a man sized sock, the other two were socks for children aged 9/10 ish. I made the heads from my trainer socks.

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