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🐍 2025 is the Year of the Snake! 🐍

The new year is already sending us swerves and surprises—to put it mildly—so why not knit a tiny snake or two for good luck? We’ll 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. You’ll 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 snakes’ tails a stylish swivel. (The matching colors help keep the pipe cleaner invisible inside.)

Here’s to a year of just enough smarts and silliness to succeed 🐍

Thank you to Marilyn Passmore for tech editing and Kristine Brandel for testing 💛

A little behind-the-scenes after the jump!

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Our 2024 holiday pattern is here and it’s brimming with cheer!

And it’s 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 winter’s day like a cup of hot chocolate, topped with a marshmallow and the teeniest candy cane you’ve ever seen.

✨☕️ 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! ☕️✨

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 “take apart” erasers that you’ve probably seen in gift shops. It’s 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. ☺️

And this pattern comes with secret BONUS mods! Can you guess what they are?? 😉

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’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!

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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 you’ll need with a kit. Featuring Chicago-based Gnome Depot Fiber Lion’s 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!