The results are in! We are so excited to announce the winners of the 8th Annual Mochimochi Photo + Video Contest today! If you entered at all, of course, you’re a winner in the game of life, because you went out of your way to use your creativity to make something beautiful (or cute and silly) and share it with the world. As Mochimochi Land grows and changes, it’s the original ideas that you all put into it that are the single biggest source of inspiration to me. Thank you!
Big thanks are also in order for our sponsors, Knit Picks and Milk+Honey, for providing super prizes this year. And thank you to my lovely mother-in-law, Bonney, for opening up her stash for additional prizes!
Now for the winners of the photo category!
In third place is the adorable Snow Turtle! by ForeverWrens.
ForeverWrens wins a $10 gift certificate to Knit Picks, a gift bag from Milk+Honey, a $10 gift card to Mochimochi Land, plus a bag and Howdie Doody knitting kit from Bonney Teti’s World’s Biggest Yarn Stash in Wilmot, New Hampshire!
In second place is the incredible Beauty and the Beast by Knit Mermaid.
Knit Mermaid wins a $10 gift certificate to Knit Picks, a gift bag and an additional lotion bar from Milk+Honey, a $10 gift card to Mochimochi Land, plus vintage patterns and kits and more from Bonney!
And our top photo winner is… Fancy Seeing You Here by Molly.
Molly wins a Candy Rainbow Yarn Sampler from Knit Picks, a gift bag and two additional lotion bars from Milk+Honey, a $20 gift card to Mochimochi Land, and a whole slew of vintage patterns and kits and more from Bonney!
And finally, we have a video winner to announce. Let me tell you, we were so excited about the video entries we received (and I will be posting more of them here soon). But one video stood out as a clear winner for its story, its originality, and its execution. It’s By a Thread by juleenbean.
Amazing, right? juleenbean wins everyone’s adoration plus 10 tiny mochi kits!
Congratulations to these very clever knitters! And that wraps up the 2014 Mochimochi Photo + Video Contest—thank you again to all who participated!
Feeling inspired? It’s not too early to enter next year’s contest! All photos added to the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group will automatically be entered in the 2015 Mochimochi Photo Contest. And we’ll probably also bring back our springtime photo series contest, so keep an eye out for that in a few months.
Great job everyone!
Great photos! The video was super!
Love the photos. The video was excellent and a deserved win! Well done.
What a wonderful collection! The video winner is absolutely charming and funny. It’s just perfect!
Yay!!! Paul is my dad and I used his flicker for the the photo. I’m just 13. Thank you to every one who voted for me!
Thank you so much to everyone who voted for my Turtles! Congratulations to the other winners, especially Molly for “Fancy Seeing You Here”! A truly epic photo..
Forgot to say—the video is super cute!! Great job! :)
Well done to all of the winners! They are so good! :)
I’m so happy I got second place! Congratulations to all the other winners too! You all did amazing jobs!
Congratulations winners, the video was super cute and mochi charming : )
Congrats to all the awesome entries! (Kid-knitting power! ^_^) I loved the video, too! Well done. :)
Aiee! I’m so excited! Congratulations to ForeverWrens, Knit Mermaid, and Molly on your winning photos!
Thank you, Anna, for the wonderful contest. And thanks to all for the lovely comments on my video.
Wow that video was just the most awesome ever!!!! Fantastic work Juleen!!!!
Wow! I like the video and the photos. I do like the music with the video…what’s it called?
Thanks for making such cute knits to share.
Thanks, Nancy! The music is one of the free options that came with iMovie. It’s called “Time Lapse”.
Congrats to all the winners! I know Molly, who won 1st place, and she absolutely LOVES Mochimochi! So it seems fitting that she was chosen :)