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!
On Saturday I attended Jell-o Takes New York, a jell-o mold competition at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn. Who is interested in Jell-o molds these days, you ask? All of these people, that’s who.
The strange new forms that gelatin and agar were taking in this room boggled the mind. They included Jell-o “shots”…
And a Jell-o piano that could actually be played because of electric fields or something crazy like that.
Jell-o was being projected on a wall…
And there were TWO entries of Jell-o breakfast, one of which I photographed.
Many of the Jell-o artists, it turns out, used 3D printing technology to make their molds, which added an intriguing layer of technology to the competition. And did I mention you could sample all of the Jell-o? It was an interesting mixture of extremely beautiful and stomach-turning presentation, and I only ended up trying three, two of which were delicious (coffee/caramel/cinnamon and lemon meringue pie).
As it was a competition, there were winners, which are listed on the Gowanus Studio Space website.
The event did not disappoint as far as wacky “new Brooklyn” events go—I can’t say I feel any more or less inclined to eat jell-o than usual, but the whole thing was fun and inspiring!
With your help, today we present the epic tale of Tiny Viking, who braved the wooly wilds on the vast outskirts of Mochimochi Land.
According to Shama D, first our Tiny Viking decided that she would conquer the dreaded fiber-breathing dragon!!!
(The part of the dragon is played by Tiny Dino, who will appear in Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi!)
His breath made this conquest so not worth it, though, so she moved on.
Next, Erin Berry tells of her quest to conquer “the ring.” But alas, that’s just a stitch marker…sigh.
And finally, Mandy recounts the day that Tiny Viking set out to conquer the Isle of Fair with needles in hand. But no matter how many times she tried, she ended up with tangled yarn.
And that was the end of Tiny Viking. Just kidding—I hear she took up crochet and is now spending her days happily making granny-square sails for her ship.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the caption contest! (There were many other cute and hilarious captions!) And for Shama D, Erin Berry, and Mandy, I have three Potter Craft totes to send you. Congrats!
The three winning captions are featured in The Tale of Tiny Viking!
She is a fierce Tiny Viking and she’s ready to conquer something big! But what should that be?
Leave your conquest suggestion in the comments (one per person, please), and we’re going to choose THREE favorites on Monday for a special prize!
Potter Craft, the publisher of Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi, is celebrating five years of craft books, and they’ve given me three anniversary totes to give away. It’s a great large and heavy-duty bag, perfect for shopping. So think like a Tiny Viking, and one could be yours!
Look what came the other day!
Finally, my own copy of Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi! But as you can see, it was quickly claimed by a Tiny Gnome.
First he found the Tiny Hot Dog, and immediately demanded that I make him one. (I told him to finish looking at the book first.)
Next he checked out the who’s-who of knitted folks like him. Tiny Mermaid seemed to catch his eye…
Then he found his favorite page!
Tiny Gnome decided he had seen all the highlights worth seeing. Now where is that Tiny Hot Dog I promised?
Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi is coming out August 16th! You can pre-order it on Amazon and the Barnes & Noble website. In August, you’ll be able to find it in many local yarn stores, and signed copies will be available in the Mochimochi Shop!