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Free Pattern: Grass
Apr 9th
This is a free and easy pattern for you to make and share. Please check out the Mochimochi Land Shop for more patterns that you’ll love!
Happy Spring! These little guys are popping up everywhere. Make one or more to celebrate the season.
Would You Like to Test a Mochimochi Land Pattern?
Apr 7th
I’m currently looking for a couple of people to test knit a baby elephant named Pepto.
If you’re interested in testing the pattern, and if you think you could test it within the next two weeks (knitting the pattern should only take about two days), please send an email to info [at] mochimochiland [dot] com.
Update: Thank you to those who volunteered to test Pepto! For others who are interested in test knitting Mochimochi Land patterns, please keep checking the blog for future opportunities.
Sleepy Snake and Mischievous Mouse
Apr 6th
This looks like trouble….
Don’t be alarmed! Mischievous Mouse is just playing with his friend Sleepy Snake.
You do have permission to be alarmed, however, by the terrible toupees both are wearing.
Mouse Encounter
Apr 5th
I’m happy to say that my snake and mouse set is almost finished!
The mouse is done, so I thought I’d show a little sneak preview:
I think the toupee in particular turned out nicely. In fact, it closely resembles the hair of someone else in this household….
The snake is felted but still needs to be made up. Here’s hoping he also turns out well.
A Trip to Whole Foods
Apr 4th
This past weekend, I took a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit some friends. It was great – the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, and the weather couldn’t have been better. Today, I took a trip to Whole Foods. That was a more miserable experience, so I’m choosing to write about getting groceries instead of our national capital.
What can I say about Whole Foods? At least in New York, it must be a love/hate relationship for most of us – go to Dagostino’s and get smelly, spoiled produce, or go to Whole Foods and get high prices and… where do the keep the mayonnaise? Near the adzuki beans, or is it the unrefined sea salt? Do they even carry mayonnaise? (For the record, yes, they do, but who’s brave enough to try organic mayonnaise? Not me.)
I think my husband really captured the feeling we both get as we descend the escalator to the Whole Foods in the Shops at Columbus Circle mall: “it’s like visiting your rich, hippie cousin,” he says, “Everything seems so nice and beautiful, until you ask to use the bathroom and they show you to their cold, smelly ‘natural’ outhouse.” This is the plight of those of us who enjoy both crisp apples and Lucky Charms – it’s one or the other, kiddo.
And then there’s the crowds. We thought we were really clever today for going to buy our groceries two hours ahead of the rush today, at 3:30 in the afternoon. But we quickly discovered that there is about the same number of people wandering around Whole Foods in the middle of the afternoon as in the evening hours – it’s just an older crowd. Older, and slower.
