Love is in the air for two romantic pterodactyls đ
This scene is inspired by my newest tiny dinosaur pattern, Ptara the Ptiny Pterodactylânow available in the Knitrino app.
You probably wonât be able to knit just one Ptara, and you definitely wonât be able to resist making them soar majestically through the air while you screech your best pterodactyl sounds. (SCREECH SCREECH SREEEEEEECH means âI love you!â)
Happy Valentine’s Day!
My new picture book is out now!
Following up on the prepositional cats in CATSIDE UP, CATSIDE DOWN, the dogs in SHORT DOG, LONG DOG are all about opposites! Because dogs come in all shapes, sizes, barks, and personalitiesâfrom huge and tiny to itchy on the head and scratchy on the hineyâtheyâre the perfect subjects to explore the world of antonyms.
The book is now on sale at all the major booksellers, and hopefully also at your local bookstore and yarn shop too. (If not, ask them to stock it!)
If you preordered this book, thank you so much! I hope you love it, and I would be so grateful if you left a review on Amazonâit makes a big difference to book sales and potential future books.
I absolutely loved putting this book together and I hope youâll love reading it and sharing it. Itâs for kids, dog lovers, word nerds, and knitters alike! đ¶đ
đ¶ Free pattern alert! đ¶
And for the knitters, thereâs a free pattern to make the titular short and long dog. Available on Ravelry now!
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If youâre in the Chicago area, please join me for a Short Dog, Long Dog release party at Cog Cycles and Yarns on Sunday February 23rd!
Weâll have a book reading at 11am, then a drop-in-and-knit-dogs session after that. Hope you see you there!
Short Dog, Long Dog is dedicated to my sister-in-law, Jenna, an expert in all things canine and always a source of dog wisdom and dog fun facts. She helped me come up with which breeds of dogs would embody which characteristics for my extremely technical book. And she’s also just the best possible sister-in-law and aunt to my kids. Thank you, Jenna!
Jenna also has her own business making gorgeous dog toys and accessoriesâcheck them out at Think Smart Pets!
My new book is here! Short Dog, Long Dog is a picture book all about dogs doing opposites. Because dogs come in all shapes, sizes, barks, and personalitiesâfrom huge and tiny to itchy on the head and scratchy on the hineyâtheyâre the perfect subjects on the topic of antonyms!
I absolutely loved putting this book together and I hope youâll love reading it and sharing it. Itâs for kids, dog lovers, word nerds, and knitters alike! Find it at Amazon and other major booksellers, and hopefully also at your local bookstore and yarn shop too. (If not, ask them to get it!)
This free pattern is a quick, simple project that will make a short dog or a long dogâyour choice! Either or both will make a fun gift to go with Short Dog, Long Dog. Enjoy!
đ 2025 is the Year of the Snake! đ
The new year is already sending us swerves and surprisesâto put it mildlyâso why not knit a tiny snake or two for good luck? Weâll need it!
This sassy-sweet pattern is now available as a PDF download (Both here on Ravelry as Snake Charmer) and as a kit.
The quick project incorporates a bit of I-cord, intarsia knitting, and knitting in the round. Youâll add a pipe cleaner before seaming the belly with mattress stitch for a pose-able tail.
Linked videos will help you with intarsia, mattress stitch, and embroidery to give your snake a cute lil forked tongue.
The kit comes with the printed pattern, enough yarn and and stuffing to knit two snakes in red and gold, plus color-coordinated pipe cleaners to give your snakesâ tails a stylish swivel. (The matching colors help keep the pipe cleaner invisible inside.)
Hereâs to a year of just enough smarts and silliness to succeed đ
Thank you to Marilyn Passmore for tech editing and Kristine Brandel for testing đ
A little behind-the-scenes after the jump!
The Vogue Knitting Live skyscrapers made a personal appearance at the NYC showâs art gallery last weekend, walking a runway, posing in an art gallery, buying all the yarn possible, playing in a yarn ball pit, etc, etc!
It was fun to bring the props from the videos out to let these guys play IRL as their animationsâall TWELVE of themâplayed on a monitor nearby.
(These are the first sixâI still need to upload the rest to YouTube.)
My classes were also a ton of funâI hope those who took them would agree! We made unicorns together and tiny knitted versions of ourselves and our favorite people. This was honestly the first time I felt (almost) totally relaxed about teaching and just enjoyed it. (The document camera on my hands with the footage projected on a screen helped a lot.)
Thank you to everyone who took my classes, who bought stuff from me, who checked out my little diorama, and who said hello in their gorgeous hand-knitted and -crocheted outfits. And thank you to the people of VKL!
You can see a little reel with videos and more photos of cool stuff from the show on my Instagram.
Our 2024 holiday pattern is here and itâs brimming with cheer!
And itâs FREE with $5 purchase all this month!
Drink in the merry cuteness that is Koko and Puff, warming holiday friends to knit, share, and enjoy. Because nothing brightens a winterâs day like a cup of hot chocolate, topped with a marshmallow and the teeniest candy cane youâve ever seen.
âšâïž Use the code MERRYMUG after adding $5 in products from the Mochimochi Shop, and the Koko and Puff pattern will magically appear in your cart! âïžâš
You can also purchase the pattern on its own via Ravelry.
Koko and Puff is a seamless, super simple project, with nothing more complicated than I-cord, yarnovers, and one wrap & turn (demonstrated in a linked video).
The construction was inspired by those cute âtake apartâ erasers that youâve probably seen in gift shops. Itâs so satisfying to pop in the hot chocolate, and it means that you can knit and swap out other drinks. (Matcha egg nog, anyone?)
Scrap yarn works well for this project, plus you may want a bit of wool or yarn and a needle felting tool to add those cute lil cheeks. âșïž
And this pattern comes with secret BONUS mods! Can you guess what they are?? đ
Big thank-yous to Marilyn Passmore for her tech editing, and to Kristine Brandel for testing this pattern.
I hope you all love knitting Koko and Puff as much as I loved designing them! Happy Holidays, everybody!
I am thrilled to be teaching an all-new virtual workshop with Modern Daily Knitting. On December 13th, join me online to knit my classic Cat in a Box, just in time for cozy winter gifting. You’ll come away with all the skills you need to knit a Cat in a Bag and a Cat in a Life Preserverâand all the yarn you’ll need, too! We’ve created custom cozy cat kits (that include stickers!) for the occasion.Â
Sign up and get the kit on the Modern Daily Knitting website. I can’t wait to see you there!Â
I’m so excited to announce my newest Catside pattern: Computer Cat!
Computer Cat is a multitasker, working hard at getting comfy and deleting your progress at the same time. An inspiration to screen addicts everywhere!
Now available as a PDF download AND in two kit options: fuzzy white and fuzzy surprise color!
The cat is a seamless knit that uses grafting to finish, and the computer is knit flat with intarsia colorwork for the screen, with some mattress-stitch assembly. The pattern includes five BONUS intarsia designs for the computer screen, along with three templates for you to create your own graphics.
This is a great project for scrap yarn, or get all the yarn and stuffing youâll need with a kit. Featuring Chicago-based Gnome Depot Fiber Lionâs Mane Suri Lace (a baby alpaca/silk blend), the kit comes with yarn to make a computer and a fuzzy cat in white OR a fuzzy cat in a surprise hand-dyed color!
Computer Cat is modeled after a cat that appears in my picture book Catside Up, Catside Down: A Book of Prepositions, published by Feiwel and Friends. It makes a purrfect gift to go with the book!
Many thanks to Marilyn Passmore for her tech editing, and to Kristine Brandel for testing.
Also available on Ravelry!