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A Tiny Duck Walks into a Bar…
Feb 28th
…and asks the bartender for a water. The bartender gives him a dirty look for not ordering an expensive drink so the tiny duck replies “What? Someone as small as me can’t have a big bill!”
That excellent Tiny Duck joke comes courtesy of Sarah, this week’s caption contest winner! There were many cute entries, but I especially liked Sarah’s incorporation of the duck’s tiny size into the joke.
Congrats, Sarah—you win a free pattern from the Mochimochi Shop!
Tiny Match is a Hottie
Feb 21st
I had no idea that a tiny match had so many pun possibilities! The prompt was “How does a tiny match introduce himself at a party?” It was hard to choose among all of the references to love matches and “light my fire” shout-outs, but this one made us laugh!
Hi there, I’m Burny!
See, it’s a cute match name that sounds like a real person’s name. We liked that.
Anna submitted this winner, so she gets a free PDF pattern from the Mochimochi Shop!
We also can’t resist honorably mentioning these other two captions:
He hopes to meet his one true flame on match.com by radioactivegan
and
Let’s get lit! by Tiffany
Thanks everyone for your captions!
When Flat Knitting Isn’t
Feb 7th
More than once a knitter has said to me that they accidentally knitted one of my patterns flat, with good results! At first I didn’t understand how that is possible, until I tried it myself: if the design is simple enough, the flat version just needs a little seaming to be very similar to the circular version, with the difference that a smooth stockinette stitch surface will end up as garter stitch if you knit every row.
With this in mind, I recently tried making a completely 3-dimensional design that only used flat knitting, with a little I-cord thrown in.
I was a little surprised to see that if I hadn’t know how it was made, my first guess would have been that it had been knitted on double-pointed needles. I know there are a lot of sophisticated 3-D designs that use flat knitting, but it was fun to try it myself!
So flat knitting doesn’t have to be simple or plain or really flat at all, in the end. I know lots of people prefer it, so I hope to do more “flat” designs in the future.
(By the way, I have no particular plans for the unnamed buggy guys pictured above. But I’m open to ideas!)
Godfrey’s 2011 Weather Prediction
Feb 2nd
Mochimochi Land’s resident weather-reporting groundhog has made his prediction!
Godfrey predicts that it is way more cozy to snuggle up with some Dust Bunnies under the radiator than to huddle inside his cold mound. (The mound’s feelings are a bit hurt, but he’s not denying it either.) Oh, and spring is just around the corner, with all signs pointing to the snow melting by June.
Multiplying Mochis
Jan 27th
Remember these guys? I’ve been making just a few more in the past couple of months…
Thanks to Koigu (who is supplying me with yarn) and Lion Brand (who is giving me a space), these will turn into a crazy art piece later this year. Look for it in the Lion Brand Yarn Studio in August through October!
I’ll be posting some periodic updates about my progress here until then. I don’t know what form it will take in the end, so it should be a fun process!
