Last year, I started making monsters in addition to sockies. I had already made two sockie aliens, but for some reason, socks (IMO) lend themselves more to realistic creatures than to fantasy creatures and monsters. However, I had some leftover T-shirt fabric after making a couple T-shirt bags, so I started playing around and I created... this:
This is Iggy. I'm not quite sure what Iggy is -- a gremlin? a goblin? a baby gargoyle? Whatever he is, he is very special to me: Iggy sits on my pillow and protects me from nightmares (and he falls on my head whenever I roll over, but it's ok, I still love him.) Since creating Iggy, I've gone on to create a number of monsters, mostly working in fleece (you can see and purchase them at my shop, SockiesPaperScissors), as well as a dragon for my 5-year-old friend Joe. So now I'm considering where I want to go next, what I want to make. Here are some ideas so far:
- Make some smaller monsters more like Iggy. Most of the monsters I made after Iggy were larger and more intricate, but there's something about Iggy that I really love. I think he needs some brothers and sisters to go out into the world and be monster mascots.
- Make more dragons! I posted pictures of the dragon that I made for Joe on Facebook, and the response I got was overwhelming. Yes, the dragons are larger, more detailed, and will take longer to make, but I've already got a basic pattern designed. And think of all the colors -- I could create a whole rainbow of dragons!
- Miniaturize the sockies and monsters and make them into holiday ornaments.
- Play around more with drawing/painting sockies and monsters.
- Maybe add some flower girls to the shop: