I love this .....

Press release - 17th January.

Following the success of Take Thats re-forming...it looks as if the Monkees may have done the same (although the one who used to wear a wooly hat seems to have had liposuction and turned into a penguin!) Following a sellout tour, they performed gigs all over Rochdale and are now planning to repeat their success in Scotland but their manager (aka Meg) has had trouble getting permission to fill the back seat of the car with all their instruments.

That brilliant photo and press release from Meg's Mum just cracks me up. MM has bought two of my monkees and also knitted one of her own and I think it's great that she and Meg have cooked up this monkee (and penguin) group!

Talking of cooking, I also love these other pictures she sent me ......

....... mmmm, knitted bacon and eggs ..... so much better for the hips .....

..... and yum - a basket full of knitted cakes ..... and a monkee ......

And I'm loving these snaps that Gladys sent me, of her winning monkee, Rambo .....

..... so named because on his arrival he was bursting his way out of his packaging .....



..... a monkee on a mission ......

....... wahey! Steady!! ......

Rambo ..... don't you think the likeness is amazing?

...... no wait .... why's it all gone dark??

..... aha ..... mission accomplished ......

Continuing to spread the love, how about these guys ..... a couple of monkeys that I didn't knit .....

Ann in Belgium knitted this one for her Dad - what a cutie ..... the monkey - not her Dad ..... (although he may be too, I don't know .....)

And Sarah knitted this handsome chap in vibrant red ......

Cedric

Sarah and Natalie also gave me this link, Crafty Threads 'n' Yarns Knit a Monkey knit-a-long a forum for knittists who are making their own monkeys. A place to share tips and hints, and presumably despair over that pesky mouth .....


And the final photo, received last night after HP36 arrived at Dottycookie's. Who couldn't love this one ......

..... oh, the cuteness - those tiny hands! ......

Many thanks to Meg's Mum, Gladys, Ann, Sarah, Natalie and DC for sharing these pictures and links with me ..... please keep them coming.

HUGE thanks too, to anyone who visited my shop this week to purchase a monkee ..... especially to those people on the other side of the pond ..... one of whom stayed up until 2.40 am to bagsy one, another set her alarm clock for 3.45 so she wouldn't miss out, and someone else staggered out of bed at 4.20. Sheer dedication to monkee madness ..... or just sheer madness? I don't know, but I'M LOVING IT!!