Sock Mothman

You'll need these supplies:

• black or grey socks,
• mini elastics
• coarse decorative sand
• a few colours of felt
• red gems
• round beads (about 1 cm or ½")
• a faux fur stocking (or swap out for felt)
• mini bottle-brush Christmas trees (or swap out for feathers, tassles, or actual bottle brushes)
• stuffing (I used polyfil I had, but you can grab a couple bags of cotton balls, rip apart a pillow, use sponges - really anything squishy.)

Watch the tutorial video on YouTube!

Sock gnomes can be cute, but you know what's cooler than a sock gnome: a sock Mothman. Let's make one. There's a complete step-by-step video tutorial here!

If you're here, you probably know who Mothman is, but just in case you don't, Mothman is a humanoid cryptid hailing from West Virginia who was first cited in 1966 in the town of Point Pleasant. Several people reported seeing a large gray man with red eyes and 10 foot wings. These sightings were reported around the same time as the tragic collapse of Point Pleasant’s Silver Bridge, which seemed to both validate the sightings and tie them to the bridge collapse. Was Mothman here to warn us about the bridge?

Like its gnome counterpart, you can get everything you need to build a sock Mothman at the dollar store. You also need some scissors, glue, a hot glue gun and a scrap piece of cardboard. Any old thin cardboard will do. 

I've provided a free template below which includes the wing and wig pattern I used.

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Sock gnomes are OK, but sock Mothman is better.

Craft along with the step-by-step tutorial on my YouTube channel!