Tiny Pineapple may neither be a pine nor an apple, but that doesn’t mean he can’t do a whole lot!
Grilled, mashed, baked, conserved,
Dried, fried, sliced or preserved,
Tiny Piney can do them all,
Even though he’s oh-so small!
That clever poem is courtesy of Gulnoza, our caption contest winner! That means she wins a free PDF pattern for Uh-Ohs. Nice job!
Thank you to everyone who submitted a caption—there were many really cute ones! (And now I get to go eat that pineapple.)
Winning caption by Gulnoza:
Grilled, mashed, baked, conserved,
Dried, fried, sliced or preserved,
Tiny Piney can do them all,
Even though he’s oh-so small!
As we all know, a Tiny Pineapple neither comes from a tiny pine tree nor is related to a tiny apple. So where did this peculiar tiny fruit come from?
Leave your caption in the comments to this post, and we’ll pick our favorite on Monday. The winner will get a free PDF pattern for Uh-Ohs, a Mochimochi Land classic!
Look who got a new little friend!
Since we live in a small apartment, we try to keep our knickknacks to a minimum, except when it comes to vintage rubber cats. We found the bigger one at a flea market in Manhattan several years back, and I just got the mini one from my mother-in-law as an early birthday present. I probably could not have been more excited about an unexpected present. Thank you, Bonney!
That’s right—last Friday’s Tiny Firecracker marks two years of knitting tiny animals, foods, people, and other various things. It started with a Tiny Brain on July 1st, 2009, then continued every weekday that month. After that, I was having so much fun that I’ve kept up the Tiny Challenge on a weekly basis ever since.
Some of the Tinys have been more successful than others, but it’s been a rewarding challenge. Coming up with a new Tiny to knit every week has forced me to take a regular break from current projects to brainstorm and problem solve. I’m made Tinys while I was on vacation, while I was under the weather, and while I thought I was way too busy to make time for it. And I’m glad I did! Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi is a direct result from this project, but even if it hadn’t turned into a book, I would still see it as a fulfilling way to spend a few hours each week.
Click around on the image above to be taken to the original blog posts.
Now for the question: will I keep it up? I don’t see why I should stop now—my love for Tiny knitting is as strong as ever—so I think I’ll keep making Tinys as long as I can. Maybe the project will change a bit over the next year, though. I would rather be flexible about the challenge and keep it meaningful rather than continue it just to try to break my own record.
If you’ve ever thought about doing a creative challenge, whether to be documented on a blog or just something to do in private, I encourage you to start today! Make an illustration each week, write a poem every month, or take an improv class. I’ll continue to knit and see what happens next.
Don’t try this at home, friends!
I’m happy to say that the pattern little guy will be in Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi, which will include a section of holiday-themed Tiny patterns. Now that it’s July, I can also say that the book is coming out next month!
No caption contest this weekend, but please share your Tiny Firecracker captions in the comments if you want! And to all of you who are celebrating this weekend, Happy 4th of July!
It was great to get so many entries in the Pearl and the Beard giveaway! To win a copy of their new album Killing the Darlings, I asked you to tell us who you would put in your three-person sweater. 48 of you revealed who you’d like to get cozy with! And our randomly-selected winner is…
Comment #40 by knitcrazy!
Me, my Mom, and my Mom’s friend Vera. We all love knitting (well, maybe my Mom less), so we would be wearing and knitting the sweater at the same time!
Congrats, knitcrazy! Now you will be able to listen to some lovely Pearl and the Beard music while you attempt to knit a three-person sweater of your own.
This was a really fun giveaway to do, and many thanks go to Pearl and the Beard for sharing their music. If you haven’t yet, go check out their website!
No, it’s not a new parlor game (although maybe it should be)—musical pigs are knitter WittieKnittie’s take on Pigs with Wigs!
WittieKnittie has some music-loving friends, and so she made Bach the Pig for one of them…
A Shostakovitch Pig for another friend…
And for a friend who was going away to study at a music conservatory, Mozart the Pig!
Not only are these musical pigs super cute, but they’re also really small! WittieKnittie used Knit Picks Palette yarn to make them, so they’re palm-sized pigs.
If you’ve done a fun mod on a Mochimochi pattern, please add it to the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group! It will appear on the gallery page, and it will automatically be entered in our next photo contest.
Our giveaway winner is comment #40 by knitcrazy!
Me, my Mom, and my Mom’s friend Vera. We all love knitting (well, maybe my Mom less), so we would be wearing and knitting the sweater at the same time!
You may have noticed that occasionally I blog about music that I love, even though most of my blog is dedicated to things knitting related. Very seldom do these two interests collide, so you can imagine my excitement when I heard about Pearl and the Beard, a fantastic Brooklyn band (so, also local to me!) with a love for knitting. The 3-person sweater pictured on their new album was made by Jocelyn Mackenzie, one of the members!
Killing the Darlings is definitely 3-person sweater-worthy.
Pearl and the Beard draw you in with warm 3-part harmonies that are sweet and haunting at the same time—combined with masterfully played acoustic instruments (cello, guitar), the songs are steeped in tradition with a very 2011 spirit. Just check out this free track from the album, “Reverend”:
So about that sweater. Jocelyn designed and made it herself using a knitting machine, which is something I’ve been really interested in lately. She explains how it all happened in this video.
I mentioned a giveaway in the title of this post, and it’s true! Pearl and the Beard are letting me give away a copy of Killing the Darlings to one person, so I’d like to ask you all: who would you put in your 3-person sweater? Myself, I’d wear the sweater with my two cats. They would hate it, but it would make for a great photo shoot!
Let us know who your sweater companions would be in the comments to this post, and I’ll randomly select a winner this Friday, July 1st. If the winner is in the US, they’ll get a physical copy of the album, and if they’re out of the country, they’ll get the album as a download. Good luck!