Look what’s new in the shop!
With squirrels, footballs, bats, and pumpkins, fall might already be the cutest season, and the new Tiny Fall pattern collection brings autumn knitting to new levels of adorable!
I think these itty-bitty guys would make perfect fall-time party favors or decorations. Maybe even earrings or a charm bracelet!
The 4-pattern collection is now available as a PDF download for $6 in the Mochimochi Shop!
I had big ambitions this past weekend to hit up all of the yarn stores in the NYC Yarn Crawl, each of which was hosted a spooky toy from Super-Scary Mochimochi! Well, I didn’t quite get to all 11 stores, but I made it to four, which is more than my monthly average of yarn store visits at least!
Shoppers at Knitty City were greeted by a tall monster who’s more goofy than scary…
Argyle had a Mama Bear Cave in store for visitors brave enough to check out the back of the store…
Brooklyn General housed a weird box monster who was keeping watch over their sewing machines…
And Purl Soho had a Sarcophacat lurking at the bottom of a display table!
I hope participants in the yarn crawl had fun finding these guys and all the others!
My thanks to Phyllis for making this a Super-Scary weekend for NYC knitters, and also to Pearl at Knitty City for hosting a book signing on Saturday!
Remember these guys?
I’ve been sending them out with physical purchases from the Mochimochi Shop for the past month or so, and I’ve also been giving them away at some recent NYC events. The response to these itty-bitty gnome buttons has been awesome!
So now I’m thinking that I should make more buttons with other tiny mochi characters, and have them available as a set of 4 in the shop. But which characters to buttonize?? I need your help!
Here are a few options that I’m kicking around…
Any of these tickle your fancy? Or are there other tiny mochis that you’d like to see as a button? Please let me know in the comments!
Maybe we can make it a little more exciting too. If you are the first to list a particular four-character button combo, and if I end up making that exact set, you’ll get it for free once it’s ready! (That should be sometime before the end of the year.) Remember that you can suggest any tiny character I’ve ever designed—it doesn’t have to include the above guys (although it’ll probably definitely include the gnome).
I’d love your input—thanks!
I was excited to be interviewed recently for the newest Knit Picks podcast, which is now available! Stacey and I had a nice chat about knitting toys and how I came up with all the creepy and kooky characters in Super-Scary Mochimochi. Sometimes podcast interviews make me nervous, but it really helped that I’d met Stacey previously at TNNA and she’s super cool.
Since Knit Picks is awesome, they’re also doing a giveaway of 3 copies of my new book! Just leave a comment on their giveaway blog post.
Big thank-yous to Stacey and Knit Picks!
Kathreen of Whipup recently asked me to put together a guest post for her blog, for a series on designing knitting patterns. It’s always an honor to get a mention on Whipup, and guest posting is even better!
I had a new design in mind, so I thought it would be fun to take Whipup readers along as I worked on it, from sketch to finish.
See more of this new Mochimochi design come together in the Whipup post! There are also other great entries to read in the guest designer series. (By the way, I promised a November release date for this guy, and that’s looking a little iffy now… I’ll do my best!)
The Super-Scary events continue as Mochimochi Land’s creepiest new creatures try to take over New York City! This Saturday (October 6th) we’ll be at Knitty City.
I’ll be there from 3-5 pm with my Super-Scary display and plenty of books, so please stop by if you’re in the city! This is not a formal event, so I’m just looking forward to hanging out at one of my favorite yarn stores and chatting with knitters about knitting tiny zombies, mummy cats, and dead toasters. And even if it’s a little far for you, I still hope to see you there because this weekend is also the NYC Yarn Crawl!
The characters from Super-Scary Mochimochi are playing a key role in this year’s crawl: they have the honor of being the must-find items for the scavenger hunt.
These guys will be hiding in the 10 participating local yarn stores around the city, and it’s up to you to find them! Find out more about it all on the NYC Yarn Crawl website.
Thank you for all the tiny squirrel captions over the weekend! It was too hard to pick a favorite, so the best we could do was narrow it down to three cute ones…
From Lydia:
There once was a squirrel who was keen
On tasting a raw coffee bean.
But it was caffeinated,
Thus he was stimulated
And since then he’s never been seen!
From Starparty2000:
Tiny Squirrel is very sorry he bit the Tiny Snowman, from behind he thought it was a white peanut…
And lastly, from Johnna:
Tiny Squirrel is the one who hoards all those stitch markers and tapestry needles that you thought were lost!
Congrats to these clever caption writers, each of whom will get the upcoming Tiny Fall pattern collection for free! It’s coming to the Mochimochi Shop soon, so please stay tuned for Tiny Squirrel, Tiny Bat, and more!
UPDATE: We had so many great Tiny Squirrel captions that we picked three winners!
The requests have been coming in for years, and here he finally is: Tiny Squirrel!
What kind of squirrelly behavior does a tiny squirrel get up to in Mochimochi Land? Leave your caption in the comments, and we’ll pick our favorite one on Monday. The winner will get the soon-to-be-released Tiny Fall patterns for free! (And yes, Tiny Squirrel is included!)