ROCKFORD (WREX) — Sock Monkey Madness, a one-of-a-kind annual event, returns as a celebration of the past by highlighting Rockford’s once thriving knitting industry and the iconic stuffed sock toy ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) — When you think of Rockford, you may not think about socks or knitting, but during the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, those two things helped the city grow. Sock monkeys may not ...

Punch the words “sock monkey” into the eBay search portal and you’ll get back 12 pages of sock monkey stuff for sale. Sock monkey clothes, sock monkey books, sock monkey drawings and sock monkeys ...

Dee Lindner, award winning photographer and author/artisan known as the “Sock Monkey Lady,” has promoted and immortalized sock monkeys through various channels including radio, television and ...

Some muses come and go, but for photographer, author and crafts pro Dee Lindner, the red-heeled sock monkey is eternal. “The giggles and smiles my work generates and the sentimental stories I receive ...

An Illinois museum's sock monkey collection has officially set a Guinness World Record. Michael Okun, the co-founder of the Illinois Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove, said he had been working with ...