Nursery sock monkey

 My friend, Rosalle, (rosecrochetminis) made me this wonderful sock monkey some years ago.

The only problem is that it is SO finely crocheted that it doesn't have much give so it's hard to pose.

When the ladies from Saskatoon were here, I mentioned this to them and one (I think Bev) suggested that I wire it. What a great idea! I had some quite fine wire so I inserted two wires through the back (about shoulder blade) down through past the knee and another through the tail.

Rosalle's crochet work is so fine that it wasn't easy to insert the wire but once it was in, it did the trick.

And here he is on top of the cabinet on the side of the artwork.