HOWTO Make a sock Cthulhu

Gavin sez, "David Erik Nelson's new Maker book, Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred, has 24 awesome low-budget projects for kids (and, er, me) such as an electric guitar screen-printed tees, and the one and only Sock Cthulhu! Download Project No.3: The Sock Squid from the publisher and check out the last page: Sock Cthulhu! (Note, 'sock' is a noun here, not a verb.)"

Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred (Amazon)

Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred: Seriously Geeky Stuff to Make with Your Kids (No Starch Press)

(Thanks, Gavin!)

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Anonymous

Not bad. But not quite as good as this year’s spooky sock monkeys from SOCK MONKEY DRAWER:
http://sockmonkeydrawer.com/spookymonkeys_2010
Anonymous

It looks like the scary cousin of Artis de Partis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREoAQyU_54
keighvin

All hail SOCK’THULU!
Anonymous

Hmm… it’s good, but not squamous enough.
Anonymous

I know what I’m putting in the stockings at christmas!
MrJM

“In a toy-box at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
BT Murtagh

Isn’t sock an adjective in this case? It’s definitely not a gerund, not in English anyway, as it doesn’t end in -ing. In the tongue of the Elder Gods… well, best not to think about that.
Rustyrobot

Pre-ordered!
peltier_cooler

Ah, it’s been done (by me!):

http://stuffilikenet.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/sock-puppets/
bardfinn

We could compromise, and ‘sock’ could be a gerund.