This is a laundry basket full of socks. CLEAN socks. I absolutely dread matching and folding our socks so I decided that all the socks would go into this laundry basket and whenever someone needed a pair of socks they could dig for what they needed. Well, it turns out my hubby wasn’t really on board with this idea, LOL! So I spent some of the afternoon sorting socks.
Here are the pairs matching socks
And here are the socks that are missing their match
This is when a crafty idea came to mind. I would make a sock animal with a leftover sock… a sock dinosaur! And we will call him Sockasaurus! I don’t have much sewing skills so I did what I could, but I think he turned out pretty cute 🙂 If you have a sewing machine, I am sure this will be very easy for you. If not, it can still be done, just as I did it!
Here are the materials I used:
– A child-size brown sock (larger socks will make larger dinosaurs!)
– Poly-fil stuffing
– Needle
– Matching embroidery thread
– Buttons for eyes
– Red felt for spikes
First I cut the sock like in the picture below. I then sewed together the open ends. You will want flip the sock inside out and sew the edges together, leaving a small opening to flip in the right away again and stuff it before completely sewing it closed.
When you have the head and the body stuffed and sewn shut, you will want to start on the arms and legs. I used the extra piece of fabric that I cut from the end of the sock for the appendages. I cut it up like the picture below, using the large pieces for the legs and two smaller pieces for the arms. The last little end was thrown away.
Now you can sew all your pieces together.
To make the spikes, I cut a long strip of spikes along one edge of my felt.
I used red thread to sew it onto the top of the dinosaur.
Lastly, sew on your button eyes and stitch on a mouth with white thread. Add some teeth if you’d like! ROOOOOAAAARRRRR!
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CUTE!!! I do the same thing with our socks, and every now and then (when I can no longer find my own)I will sort through them and match them up.
Love the little dinosaur! 😀 An idea I've heard around as far as mismatched socks is to put them through the wash safety pinned together, that way they never lose their pair 🙂
A great idea!!! You always surprising 🙂
Haha, this is so cute! My little's would love to see there little pink 'extra' socks turned into something fun and creative like this! I would love for you to come and share this on our Much Ado About Monday link party.
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Jamie
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Cute! My 2 1/2 yr. old grandson is always running around with a flashlight hunting for dinasaurs, he'd love this.
Didn't you know that washers have a "black hole" that only sucks in socks? 😉
Ellie
Oops! 'dinosaurs' I hate misspelled words! Ellie
I just sorted a basket full of socks as well and have a pile just like yours left behind… I might try these. Such a great idea. Love the dinosaur.
This is so cute. Love the name Sockasaurus too!
This is SO cute! Great work, very creative!
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Hey!
This is almost too cute for words. I saw your post on Clean and Scentsible Link party, and had to stop by and see how you made it!. I pinned it to try later too, I think my nephew would just ADORE one of these guys!
Thanks so much for sharing
Kristy @ http://www.3peppers-recipes.com
Very cute and fun!!
I could make tons of these!
So adorable! My nephews would LOVE these. Might have to try to make one for each of them.
Aww, this is so cute! What a great idea! I think my children would love this:)
AW, he is so cute! I recently made a sock alligator for my nephew-these things are so fun.
This is adorable! My little boys would go crazy for sock dinosaurs! Thanks for sharing it with us at Much Ado About Monday. We hope to see you back next week! 🙂
~Emily
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We wanted to let you know that we featured your sockasaurus over at Huckleberry Love this week! Be sure to come and grab a button! 🙂
So cute!!!! 🙂
Ciao!
Manuela
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This is such a cute idea… and whats funny is the first person I thought about was my husband… he loves dinosaurs, and he's deployed right now, so this would be really cute to throw in a care package and send to him while he's gone… something for him to look at and think of us back home!!! Thanks for such a sweet idea!!!
Such a cute idea, and most kids love dinosaurs!
This is absolutely adorable! Pinned and featuring tonight!
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