Yarn and Fabric related

I have had so much trouble making Alia's monkeys, the first pattern I tried I had struggled through, making most of the pattern up myself, I had done the body, arms and legs and I got to the head and the pattern just totally did not work, I could not figure out a way of doing what I was seeing in the picture. I realised eventually it was an AI pattern and completely unworkable. I gave in rather than try to do it myself I had spent three weeks on it so i just got a different pattern. It's hard to tell from the picture but there is a lot of needle modelling done to shape the face. Alia has already taken the monkey home so I can't get a better picture. I'm most of the way through with the 'mommy' monkey though so I will try to take better photos of that one. This pattern is so much easier and other than trying to work with a dark coloured chenille yarn I didn't have many problems. Luckily the mommy monkey is a lighter colour and has crocheted up much faster.