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Tiny Dr. Who

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My friend Christi is getting married tomorrow! She’s one of those cool brides, so of course she requested a tiny Dr. Who set as a wedding gift. Now that I know she’s opened it, I can show them here…

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I’m embarrassed to say that I have yet to watch any Dr. Who, so I had to take to Twitter to find out who Rose is and what her Doctor should look like. Fortunately the Dr. Who groupies really came through for me! I’ve also been flattered to get some pattern requests, but I’ll have to think about this one since I don’t normally make patterns for existing characters. But I can say that they were relatively simple modifications of the other tiny people that I’ve designed.

Best wishes to Christi and her husband-to-be Bobby!

Hello Kitty Re-Ment Winners

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I guess no one can resist miniature Hello Kitty-themed groceries, because we got 219 comments on Friday’s giveaway post! (You all made me seriously hungry with your descriptions of favorite things from the grocery store.)

Because there were so many funny and enthusiastic comments, I’ve decided to give away TWO blind boxes instead of just one!

And just so we can all further enjoy the cuteness contained in these boxes, I’m opening another one right now…

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Gah, the cuteness is almost too much.

OK, now for the randomly selected winners…

Comment #155, by Myha:

My favorite thing at the grocery store is probably the bulk candy section… hehehe. I have a wee bit of a sweet tooth!

And comment #125, by Stephanie:

My favorite thing in a grocery store would have to be the bakery, specifically the cake section.. teehee! 8)

Congratulations to our winners! I’ll be in touch via email to get your addresses.

Thanks again to everyone who shared their supermarket cravings!

Hello Kitty Re-Ment Giveaway!

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Update: The winners have been randomly selected!

I just got the cutest gift in the mail from a special person in Japan. It’s so cute, in fact, that I don’t have words. So I will show a sequence of photos instead.

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If you’re not in love, you have no soul. I mean, itty-bitty nutritional information!

Now, this is just too awesome not to share, so I’m going to give away one of these boxes to a commenter. Leave a comment to this post telling us about your favorite thing to get at the grocery store. (Just one comment per person please.) I’ll randomly select a winner on Monday!

Mochimochi Land PSA: Back up your Files!

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Almost every day, I hear from someone who is going through a crisis: their hard drive crashed, and they’ve lost all of their PDF knitting patterns!

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Sometimes these knitters are hesitant to request new download links for patterns that they had bought from my shop, but I’m happy to help out—it takes almost no time and effort on my part to look up the purchases and reactivate the links. But I’m sure missing Mochimochi Land patterns are the least of their troubles, what with the precious photos, emails, and other data that we all trust our computers with. Since we’ve heard this sad story again and again over the past few years, Error and I decided to do a little public service announcement today:

Back up your computer right now! And do it regularly.

It may seem like a pain, but it’s not like the pain of losing everything. I know from experience: a few years back, my hard drive crashed and I lost entire patterns that I was in the process of designing, along with lots of photos and music. I had backed up my computer, but not within the previous six months or so. The one bright spot was a nice customer service person at iTunes who didn’t ask questions when I requested the music I’d bought from them. It’s that experience that makes me eager to help out my own customers in crisis.

As I’m typing up this blog post, right this minute, I’m backing up my computer to an external hard drive. I suggest you do it too!

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This has been a public service announcement from Mochimochi Land.

On the Set with Tiny Cavemen

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We’re having a “wintry mix” day in NYC, so I thought it was the perfect day for shooting some new animations! I’ve chosen the cavemen as my stars for the first animations of 2013. Here’s the little set I’ve made for them.

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I kind of love how slapdash I get to be with the edges of the set, since no one will see that part in the finished animation. I’m also enjoying knitting rocks for the background—I just knit a sphere and then make random tight stitches in it to form big dents.

So caveman animations are coming soon, if all goes well today!

Rescheduled Pictoplasma NYC Talk Feb 8

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In November I was scheduled to give a talk at the Pictoplasma NYC character art festival, then Hurricane Sandy hit the weekend before and the whole festival had to be postponed while the city recovered from the damage. Now the city is back up and running, the festival is back on, the talk is now happening February 8th!

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My talk will be an overview of my journey into Mochimochi Land, and what it means to create character designs in the form of knitting patterns that others can recreate as their own.

The talk is open to people who have registered for the festival, but at the same time I’ll have some new knitted characters on display for everyone to see at a Pictoplasma group show at Cappellini in Soho. I can’t reveal what they are here… they’re just too top-secret!