Cathy in the UK recently sent me a photo that blew my mind: a knitted toilet paper roll cover in the shape of a toilet paper roll! I don’t think you can get more meta than that.
Cathy says she was inspired by my pattern for knitted toilet paper. Awesome!
You can now find me tweeting on Twitter, as mochimochiland. Some of my tweets will be related to knitting and cute stuff. Other topics include dental floss, Starbucks, and funny names for generic cereals.
So many letters, and never one for him…
Tropicalgirlknits first suggested that I make a tiny mailbox, so she gets a free pattern. Thank you for the idea!
Today (August 14) is the last day to get the pattern for Campy and the Mallows free with any purchase from the Mochimochi Shop.
After today it will be available for $5.
I heard yesterday from a yarn store that the Sheep Shop Yarn Company is going out of business. This makes me feel as sad as a burnt marshmallow!
I love their colorful bulky yarn, and I was even just in the middle of designing a pattern using it. Sad sad sad.
It’s a yellow ninja!
Purchased from Jas Mart on St. Mark’s Street in NY. (The candy was also exceptionally soft.)
Look who’s made friends with Campy—it’s mmmmm, the hungry little monster designed by Joan De Lurio!
I have a feeling that mmmmm is only interested in getting to know Campy for one purpose.
You can get the pattern for Campy and the Mallows FREE with any purchase at the Mochimochi Shop through this Friday, August 14th. And buy the pattern for mmmmm at Joan’s Ravelry shop.
Thank you for the test, Joan!
When I wasn’t knitting tiny things in July, I watched a few movies. Here are the movies that I saw and what I thought of them.
In the theater
I had heard from a trusted source (who will go unnamed) that this was a funny movie. Eh, it started out pretty funny, then it got progressively less so. Also, the plot didn’t really work for me, even as a silly comedy plot. I give it a C+. (The plus is for Ed Helms. I met him once!)
A funny and very smart political satire, with not one lagging moment. The best movie I’ve seen in a theater in a really long time. John overheard a woman saying that she “didn’t laugh once” as we were exiting the theater, which was almost as funny as the movie. I suppose she didn’t like the bad language.
I kind of liked this small movie. The acting was done in a natural style and the whole thing was very sensitive. There was one scene that employed horrible tinkly indie music, but since it was just one scene, I could forgive it for that.
On DVD
Everybody seems to know about Stanley Kubric’s Lolita, but no one seems to have actually seen it, as far as I can tell. So I decided to see it, and I liked it. By far my favorite thing about it was Peter Sellers as Quilty (Humbert Humbert’s rival). He is so great! The girl who played Lolita, Sue Lyon, was also very good. Unfortunately she doesn’t appear to have had much of a successful acting career after this.
On TV
I can explain this one. See, John and I have been watching the reruns of Frasier on Lifetime lately, and because they come on several times a day, our DVR is often set to that channel already when I turn the TV on. So when I feel like watching television at other times and there’s nothing on but a Meg Ryan movie WITH commercials that I can fast forward through… so it just happened.
I totally have memories of my own AOL days, so that aspect of the movie (and the way that the Internet spurs some heated debate in some scenes) is sort of interesting. The rest? Not so much, and really dated, and so what if I teared up a little at the end.