There was a deadline. No, not a work deadline or a tax deadline or an organ transplant deadline, this was important, people! I was not finished with my monkey. With mere hours to go until the baby shower, I had no ears, a disconnected tail and about half a head finished. I also had no idea how I was going to get the buckwheat hulls into the head and make them stay, as they are not as obedient as polyfill. They are also lightweight and like to jump around, as I discovered....
But the World's Best Boyfriend (wbbf) produced a funnel and had the brilliant idea that I stuff Mr. Foster over a tupperware container (I would highly recommend this, it makes clean up much easier). With a really big knitting needle to guide the hulls through the funnel and gently beat the hulls into submission once into the wee little legs, we were on our way. He drove and I knit. And I stuffed. And I knit. Then we stopped in Pasadena and he stuffed and I knit. More driving and I sewed on ears. And I knit. And I stuffed. And I knit. I sewed on the tail outside of the showerand we were only about 15 minutes late, which for this crowd is almost like being early. I had to change my shirt in the car, but these are small sacrifices to make for one's art.
And that is one cute monkey.
Oh yeah, the stuffed one, too.
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