It’s time for another sneak preview from Huge & Huggable Mochimochi!
My new book contains patterns for all kinds of unusual objects and characters to knit, but I simply must show you another squeezable silly animal project: Capybara Caravan!
If you’re not already familiar with them, capybaras are like giant guinea pigs that live in South America. I promise they are totally real and not something I made up! When I was in high school my family took a trip to Brazil, and we encountered one of these guys crossing the road one day. He or she looked a lot like this:
So that was the inspiration behind my creamsicle-colored family of capybaras crossing the road.
As always, my photographer Brandi Simons went to great efforts to get the photos: we snuck out to a crosswalk in the neighborhood at 6:30 one morning to take advantage of the pretty light from the rising sun.
Of course, shooting in the middle of the road on a weekday morning meant moving out of the way of an increasing number of cars, including the school bus!
Mama Capybara is reminding her babies to eat all their carrots and to play nice with the other rodents.
As you can see, the baby capybaras are pretty compact—I made sure to include smaller versions of some the huge toys in the book, so that there are plenty of options for quicker projects too.
Huge & Huggable Mochimochi comes out on October 15th! The book contains 20 all-new patterns for supersized knitted toys with equally big personalities. You can preorder a signed copy right now, and it’s also available for preorder at Amazon. Or buy it from your local yarn store on the 15th!
I am so glad I pre-ordered this book. All the previews have been awesome.
I love these cuties!
And thanks so much for the peek ‘behind the scenes’ :)
That capybara is ME! If you had looked for a picture of my other end (and there are plenty) you might have noticed that CAPYBARAS HAVE NO TAIL! Other than that, these are perfect replications of our physique, right down to the wiggly ears!
Ok I was going to wait to get this book as I have a great many knitting books that I want to add to my collection but this project just shot it up to the top of my list. I adore capybaras and now I must knit one or two or three…
Ahh I can’t wait to get the book! :D
Aww! How cute!!! ^_^ I’m not into big projects yet, so first I’ll try projects from ‘Knitting Mochimochi’ and maybe when I’m better, I’ll try projects from this book!