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Drool Runnings pattern now FREE with purchase!

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It’s a Mochimochi Land holiday tradition: a brand-new holiday pattern, and it’s free with purchase!

For a limited time, spend $5 on anything in the Mochimochi Shop, use the code DROOL at checkout, and the new Drool Runnings pattern will appear in your cart, like holiday magic! (No need to add the pattern to your cart.)

The pattern is a PDF download that you can access immediately in your browser. A download link will also arrive by email.

Drool Runnings calls for fingering-weight yarn in 7-9 colors and a set of size 1 DPNs. You’ll also need a little polyester stuffing, a small tapestry needle, and two pipe cleaners that you’ll insert into the sled runners.

This little bit of holiday joy knits up in a day or two for quick gifting! At the original size, this project makes an adorable holiday toy (for kids 3 and older), ornament, or tabletop decor (just add fake snow!). You can also scale the whole thing up a bit by using thicker yarn and appropriately sized needles.

Also available as a kit that includes pattern, yarn, stuffing, and pipe cleaners!

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, the idea for this pattern came from my dad, and I had so much fun creating the design. I hope these jolly dogs and their super sled will help make your holidays bright too!

My thanks to Marilyn Passmore for tech editing this pattern and to Kristine Brandel for test knitting.

The 2025 holiday kit is here!

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And it’s doggies!

I’m so excited to unveil this year’s Mochimochi Land holiday pattern: Drool Runnings!

These jolly doggies in their speedy sled were inspired by my dad’s stories of racing down any hill he and his siblings could find in their snowy Chicago suburb in the 1950s and ’60s.

For now, this pattern is available as a kit only (with the PDF download coming soon)—you get the pattern and all the yarn, stuffing, and pipe cleaners you need to knit a sled and two pups, Santa hats and all. You’ll need to supply a set of size 1 US (2.25mm) double-pointed needles and a tapestry needle.

Techniques include a few rounds of stranded colorwork, mattress stitch (for assembling the sled), and I-cord. Photos and demo videos will help you along at key points.

The entire project can be knitted up in a day or two, for a quick handmade gift. (And would make a very cute pairing with Short Dog, Long Dog!) Or the kit itself makes a sweet gift for your knitting friends who already have everything.

I wanted this year’s holiday pattern to be absolutely bursting with joy, so I hope that comes through!

Find the kit in the Mochimochi Shop.

Knit tiny crabs with meeeee!

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Knit tiny crabs with me in December!

I’m thrilled to be joining the lineup for Melissa Leapman’s newest virtual tour, Under the Sea!

It’ll be a weekend of aquatic-themed virtual workshops with fiber luminaries Xandy Peters, Franklin Habit, Romi Hill, Holli Yeoh, Safiyyah Talley, Keith Leonard, and Julie Dubreux. And me!

The tiny crabs are a pattern that last appeared in my 2015 book Adventures in Mochimochi Land. Since then, they’ve been waiting for another moment in the sun, and it’s here! The crabs are super quick to make, totally simple, and tons of fun. You’ll want to make so many! Sign up via Melissa Leapman’s website.

A new ✨deluxe✨ tiny dinosaur kit

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New in the shop: a thrilling tiny dinosaur combo kit!

Transport yourself to a time when there was no social media, no creepy drones, and no AI slop. Instead, there were soothing tar pits, exciting volcanic eruptions, and the cutest dinosaurs ever to roam the earth. It’s time for DINO-RAMA!

Inspired by dinosaur dioramas of all kinds, Dino-rama is a new knitting kit that contains the makings of a whole tiny dinosaur play set: intermediate-level patterns, yarn, and stuffing to make THREE different tiny dinos (t-rex, triceratops, and apatosaurus), plus a mini volcano and two wee palm trees!

The majority of the yarn is a beautiful mix-and-match assortment of fingering-weight, hand-dyed yarn from WoolTribe, supplemented by a smattering of Cascade Heritage solids. Plus, each kit comes with a cute little t-rex sticker!


Dino-rama comes packaged in a 6-inch square kraft box, perfect for gifting or knitting on the go. 💝🦖

These are some of my favorite designs from recent years, and I’m so excited to put them together for the first time in this fun kit. We debuted Dino-rama at the crafts industry trade show H+H Americas back in May, and got a very enthusiastic reception from retailers.

I hope you love it too! And maybe it can even take you away briefly to a more playful time and space.

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It’s dinosaur time 🦕✨

Join me in NYC for Vogue Knitting Live this January

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I’m excited to be returning to epic fiber crafts event Vogue Knitting Live in early 2026! This year I’ll be teaching three classes, each of which will feature different kinds of tiny toy knitting fun. General registration is now open!

👯‍♀️ Knit a Tiny You (or anybody!)
In this project-oriented class, we’ll start with a basic pattern for a 1-3”-tall human, then go into all kinds of ways you can customize it to create individuals representing yourself, your friends, your favorite celebs and characters—anything that walks on two legs! Techniques that we’ll cover include I-cord and circular knitting, shaping through basic increase and decrease stitches, embroidery, color work, needle felting, and anything else that might come up through participants’ interests.


🐴 Knit a Teeny-Tiny Good Luck Horse for the Year of the Horse! (NEW!)
We’ll cover tiny toy knitting techniques from basic to intermediate in this class, including knitting in the round on double-pointed needles, I-cords, simple embroidery, and more. You’ll walk out with a horse of your own, or a project that’s well on its way to completion and a skill set that will allow you to knit all kinds of tiny animals.
❗️ The tiny horse pattern for this class hasn’t even been designed yet! It will be brand new for 2026! (Keep an eye on my IG stories for some sneak peeks 👀)


🐱 Knit a Tiny Cat (NEW!)
Let’s knit tiny cats together! In this class, we’ll cover toy techniques, like working with a small number of stitches on double-pointed needles, I-cord limbs, and picking up stitches for ears and a tail. You can choose if you’ll make a walking cat or a seated cat. We’ll also discuss embroidered variations and how to customize your cat by breed.

These classes will be so much fun, and there are so many others now on offer from amazing teachers and designers. Plus a marketplace, yarn giveaways, and plenty of other fun. See you in Times Square!

August 15: Delicious Dogs virtual workshop with MDK 🌭

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Happy summer! I’m excited to be teaching a virtual DELICIOUS DOGS workshop with Modern Daily Knitting during this summer’s dog days (or close enough)—August 15th!

Join me in making a cute and classic little hot doggie in this 2.5-hour online workshop. Don’t forget the mustard! We’ll cover all the tiny toy knitting basics: Knitting in the round with a small circumference on double-pointed needles, I-cord appendages for teeny legs, picking up and knitting stitches for the flappy ears, and simple embroidery for the features. Plus, a bit of mattress stitch to seam your dog’s bun halves together.

And this workshop comes with a kit to make three delicious dogs, including my ice cream doggie and doggie slider!

See the MDK website for all the details and registration.

I hope to see you and your dogs there!

A WOOLLY WOOLLY Welcome!

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I have big news! TV-big!

WOOLLY WOOLLY is a new animated series based on the world that I’ve been knitting since 2007. More than eight years in the making, this show goes beyond my wildest dreams of where my stitches could go, thanks to Groupe PVP, co-producer Normaal, and an incredible production team that spans two continents!
The episodes, which are created for a preschool audience, follow the adventures of a family of knitted gnomes (the Woollys) and the creatures who live in their woolly world. The Woollys can knit anything! So soft, cozy adventures and creative play abound.

Each story begins as two “real life” kids turn to their knitted friends to work through something in their non-knitted lives. I love how this captures the imagination and anything-is-possible rules of real kids engaging in open-ended creative play.

In addition being an executive producer, I’ve been involved with WOOLLY WOOLLY as a creative consultant throughout its development, so I’ve gotten to work with the uber talented team of designers, writers, and animators who have brought this world to life.

The series is computer animated with a stop-motion style that blows me away every time I see it. Seriously, from the textures to the movement to the little bits of fuzziness, director Emmanuel Linderer has created some unbelievable woolly magic!

The 52 11-minute episodes of WOOLLY WOOLLY are now airing in Canada on TVOkids and TVOkids Smart TV App, and on Knowledge Network and its Knowledge Kids App.

The French version is airing in Canada on TOU.TV and on ICI TÉLÉ as LES WOULLIS, and it’s available in Europe on France TV as WOOLLY WOOLLY.

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(Will WOOLLY WOOLLY come to other countries outside of France and Canada?? I sure hope so! And I’ll be sure to share the news when that happens.)

You can meet all the Woollys and learn more about their world, and even play a little Woolly game at woollywoolly.tv.

I’m so grateful to everyone who’s been involved in this project. I hope it will amuse and delight the kids and adults who see it, and it’s my dream that it will inspire viewers to create their own worlds, woolly or otherwise!

We ❤️ YarnCon

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YarnCon this year was the best ever, and that’s saying a lot because this beloved Chicago indie fiber fair was already the best thing of its kind 🧶✨

Thank you to everybody who came out, everybody who checked out POOCHIPOOCHI Land, everybody who said hi, and everybody who bought stuff from me. (I love that I had to restock books, and almost sold out!)

The biggest thanks to Kristine Brandel for being the best imaginable help with this event (including all the prep that goes into it), and the biggest thanks to the wonderful people who work so hard to make YarnCon special every year!