Miyako Kanamori

The projects in this book are easy and very fun. A skilled sewer will be able to make an animal in an evening and be quite pleased with the results.

Someone newer to sewing may have trouble deciding the best way to stitch some of the parts (no stitch definitions are given), but the projects are so flexible and fool-proof the end result will still be charming.

I found myself taking some "long cuts" to make my seams less visible than the ones in the photos, and I'm looking forward to using what I've learned to make different animals.

One warning: the title says you make these from "cast-offs", but you do need two socks or gloves for most of the projects, and the projects would not be suitable for worn-out socks or gloves. I'd recommend buying new, cheap materials to work with.

I had a really fun time digging through socks at Target, picking out stripes and cute patterns and picturing how they would look as puppies or monkeys. I'm glad I bought this book.

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