Garden Monkey Spotted in Northampton!!

It had been rumoured for some time that knitted garden monkeys, so far fairly native to the southwest, have been seen further up the country.  I didn’t believe it but,  lo and behold, when I wandered down the garden to feed the chickens this morning, sitting in a bush was this little fella!

For a wild monkey he is a very friendly chap and has already become firm friends with my son Riley who has christened him ‘Humdrum’.  He has apparently told Riley that he is a monkey superhero who can fly.  I am now under instruction to make him a cape to aid his flight.  As I type he is flying around my living room at great speed and seems none the worse for all the crashes!

Thanks to Jo for the pattern from ‘Knit a Square & Make a Toy.  So simple even I could make him.  I did have to take his head off and re-stuff it to make him a little firmer, but he was very easy and I now feel a stripey garden monkey coming on…  watch this space…

Hope you like him Jo and that he lives up to his cousins… xx