Monkeys spreading like rabbits!

Knitted garden monkeys are continuing to crop up around the country and reports are coming in that they appear to be developing super powers. Click here to read all about the latest sighting in Northampton.

Where will the next knitted garden monkey be spotted? Members of the public are warned to remain vigilant at all times.

More monkey news

It hasn’t taken long for knitted garden monkeys to start popping up all over the country. Seems they’re resourceful little fellas with sightings coming in from motorway service stations to hot air balloons. This handsome specimen looks like he has found a cosy home all the way east in Cambridge. I was lucky enough to visit his new owner Ruthie on her 30th birthday at the start of October. “Jeffrey’s settled in remarkably quickly,” Ruthie said, “he likes to lend a hand around the house and especially likes helping to hang washing out on the line. He’s ever so well behaved.”

Remember if you’d like to help save the knitted garden monkey, follow these simple instructions.

Save the knitted garden monkey

Few people have ever seen a knitted garden monkey in captivity, let alone in the wild, but here’s one I spotted in its natural habitat in my Mum and Dad’s back garden. He looks happy enough here, but my parents’ 3 cats and a dog make the garden a treacherous place for such an endangered species. In the end this particular monkey decided to come back to Falmouth, where he’s become an activist monkey and found a lovely new home with a balcony garden. No cats can find him there!

 

 

If you’d like to help repopulate your local area with knitted garden monkeys, follow these simple instructions (pdf) . (The pattern is from Knit a Square & Make A Toy which I think is out of print).