Several weekends ago my fiber art group, Running with Scissors, did a little workshop on how to make Stupid Sock Creatures. I really wasn’t jump up and down excited about the project itself. It was more of an excuse to hang out with my art friends for three hours on a Saturday afternoon. So I gathered up my supplies, including socks. Not my socks! No, I gathered Victor’s socks. His older and slightly worn socks that were slated for the trash due to the recent purchase of new ones.

Anyway, I arrived at our meeting, set out my supplies and noticed that everyone else had these lovely, new socks. Cute, stripe, flowers, whatever socks (or gray work socks like Lynn) without any holes. Oh well, I had no idea how my creature would turn out and really didn’t want to waste money on new socks to cut up and potentially throw away after I had created some hideous creature that freaked out my kids.

So I set out to make this thing and quickly wished I had brought my sewing machine. Many hand stitches later I managed to make this stuffed white thing with stringy legs. I was totally baffled on how to make the lips. Even though people around me were making great creature lips and faces and even finishing off their creatures at this point, I was rather lost. I just don’t follow instructions very well sometimes. Well never fear I did eventually figure it out, at home.

Two days later I broke out the sewing machine and took over the kitchen table, determined to finish off this thing that I had started and make something of it. And I did…

Usta, The Rastafarian Bunny

My six year old even took him to school for show in tell. I was a little uneasy about that but I said okay. Later I asked his best friend in the class what he thought of Usta and he just start giggling and said he was silly. I can handle that.

There will be more Stupid Sock Creatures to come. My group is doing an exhibit this September at the Sewing Expo in Novi, thus we all need to make several. It should be interesting.