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Archive for July, 2007
Unusual Mochimochi Land Toys
Jul 31st
I have been blown away by the amazingly inventive twists and interpretations that knitters have given to Mochimochi Land patterns. Here are a few that I’ve noticed (and loved!) recently:
A rarely seen one-horned Hrumph cleverly made by wordgirrl.
An awesomely textured Bob made by FillyjonkKnitter.
This special black police gun was made by ax174 as a (modified) test of Luvgun. (This much-anticipated pattern is coming soon to the shop!)
babard04 made this husband-and-wife couple “interpreted” as Grass for a most unique wedding gift!!
If you have any toys made from Mochimochi Land patterns that you’d like to share with the world, please put them on the Mochimochi Friends group on Flickr!
Ninja Bunny
Jul 29th
Watch out for the Ninja Bunny! He’s very sneaky and covert. In fact, he’s got a very sneaky and covert operation planned for this week. If we’re very quiet, we may be able to catch him in action soon….
Update 8/3/07: I’ve decided to keep Ninja Bunny’s covert activities under wraps for a little while. But he’ll definitley reappear soon as a pattern in the shop!
Puffy, the Cuter Polluter
Jul 25th
This is Puffy. Puffy spends all his time tainting rivers and causing asthma, but he hopes you won’t hold it against him. He comes in a variety of colors and smells, so collect them all!
A Knitty Doppelganger
Jul 24th
If you haven’t yet noticed, the mid-season surprise patterns are now up on Knitty. That is exciting news in itself, of course, but another surprise awaited me in the photos of Amy’s Everlasting Bagstopper pattern: my seemingly complete and utter doppelganger!
This is more or less exactly what I look like, especially if you take a step back and view the photo from a distance of a few feet. Medium-blond hair, light skin, attached earlobes, dark plastic frames—take away the earrings, and it’s basically me you’re looking at. (Also maybe take away the army green Crocs please?)
I’m not crazy about the idea of putting photos of myself on the web, but I realize that this can’t be interesting to many people unless I provide some evidence. So here is evidence, in the form of a not-good-but-not-bad photo of me taken about three years ago:
There are a few more photos of the Knitty model Emma Jane here, which prove that the above photo is pretty much where the uncanny resemblance ends. Still, the world would probably turn inside out if Emma Jane and I ever met.
Cute Pollution
Jul 23rd
Isn’t pollution adorable? It’s like, “Hey! Lookit me, being unsightly and unhealthy all over the place—aren’t I just the little scamp?”
Ha ha, yes you are, pollution. And I’m not the only one who thinks so. Just check out these unhappy clouds of pollution (CO2?) from plush toy artist BYTEDUST (aka Dennis Douven):
Or the “Greedy Gas Guzzlers” series of sculptures by Matt Campbell:
I love the way his plastic clouds are so billowy-looking.
Which brings me to my most recent little knitted toy, which will be polluting nuclear chimneys! My first prototype looks kind of like a worm crawling out of a clay pot, so I won’t be sharing a photo of it until it looks more like what I’m imagining. But the nuclear power plant from The Simpsons is one of my inspirations.
By the way, I realize that nuclear cooling towers are not actually spewing pollution up into the air. The idea is that it’s an iconic image that might work well as a knitted toy. (I hope!)
