Originally Posted by
velinda
What a great job you did. I wanted to make one, but couldn't find the magazine she found the pattern in and I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to make it like you did....way to go, yours looks fantastic. What is the name of the pattern that created the monkey face? Inquiring minds want to know.
Love it!
thank you all so much. The face for the monkey I bought at embroidery.com, the name is abmo15 and it stitched great on my embroidery machine.
I copie the text of post #37:
It looks much harder than it is! All you need are 42 paper pieced snail trail blocks, one of the easiest blocks for paper piecing.
Only the center is slightly different: instead of a fourpatch you add a triangle - look at the pic and you will see what I mean.
In my case 14 brown/grey and another 14 in brown/grey as mirror image to the first 14 and 7 in orange/grey and again 7 mirror images of that.
If you look at the legs you can see that they are all the same: two turning to the right, two to the left.
I printed the paper piecing templates and colored one of each categorie by hand and then copied the number needed. Then I put it on the floor, was able to see the monkeys and sewed one by one. The last row of triangles I pinned to it and then I could see which four had to go together for the bodies ore the background.
Well, I guess I can sew better than explaining..........lol
It was really not hard and I hope some of you try it out. Or maybe somebody comes up with frogs out of the same pattern! lol
Granny