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The Makings of a Solar System

Posted on by Anna

Hello from Berlin! It was sunny and warm when we arrived, and it seemed like the whole city was one laid-back garden party with both children and dogs running around unleashed and happy.

After a delicious meal and much-needed coffee with Anna from Smallspace, we (Anna, and my sister-in-law Jenna, and I) got right to work on the layout of my show. It was exciting to get started and a big relief to see that all the pieces were here and I didn’t forget something important at home (knock on wood).

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The most exciting thing might have been the vinyl sticker that Anna put on the window at the front of the gallery. It has my name on it and everything for everyone who passes by to see!

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We’re actually almost finished now, and I’ll share plenty more pics of the show soon. Can’t wait for the opening of the Pictoplasma festival!

Tiny Fly

Posted on by Anna

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This Tiny (gigantic) Fly is a positive thinker. Life is just a bowl of carcasses!

No contest this weekend—I’m going to Berlin! I’ll be blogging from there next week, so stay tuned for posts from Europe and my show!

Tiny Things Collection 5 is Here!

Posted on by Anna

Get out your kazoos! A new Tiny Things pattern collection has just joined the Mochimochi Shop!

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These are some of my recent favorites from the ongoing Tiny series, and your comments and emails tell me that many of you want to knit them too!

You need fingering-weight sock yarn, size one needles, and just a few minutes to whip these guys up. As always, you can scale up the patterns just by using bigger yarn and needles.

This PDF pattern collection is available for $5 right here!

Bluebird of Happiness

Posted on by Anna

Look who I found on Ravelry!

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Basaltimum made this bluebird of happiness using my Puppet Love pattern. I’m impressed by the clever color work! I asked her how she did it, and this was her reply:

I put random splashes of the contrasting color throughout the body to make it in a fair isle style. I didn’t chart out the colorwork, just let it flow. I used floats to do the head although that part would have worked as panels.

If you’re a Ravelry user, you can see more pics of her construction on her project page. And if you’ve done a cute mod on a Mochimochi pattern, please share it with us in the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group.

Let’s hope this bluebird is bringing springtime weather soon. I for one have had enough of the 30s and 40s!

Cat Measuring Cups

Posted on by Anna

How cute are these measuring cups!

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These were a Christmas gift from my brother-in-law, and I’ve been meaning to do a post about them since January. I don’t have a lot of space for displaying cute stuff in my apartment, so it’s extra fun when I do get something worth making a space for. It’s also fun to think about measurements in terms of cats instead of cups. Add 2 cats of sugar and blend well!

I believe they came from Modcloth.

Oh hey a NEW Tiny Things collection will be coming to the shop tomorrow! Stay tuned!

The Dolly’s Llama

Posted on by Anna

More than 50 of you submitted caption suggestions for Tiny Llama over the weekend!

It was really difficult to choose a favorite, but I had to go with this one, which I knew would make for a cute photo:

Tiny Llama didn’t know why he caused such a stir when he told everyone he was the dolly’s llama.

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That caption is from Radioactivegan, who wins a free pattern from the Mochimochi Shop for it!

There were lots of other great captions—here are a few that deserve honorable mentions:

Your beauty is beyond compare
With fluffy locks of woolly hair
And every day you munch on fields of green
You’re like a little camel thing
Without so much of the spitting….
by Gulnoza

Tiny llama suggests the age old question: what came first, the llama or the wool?
by Katherine

What do you get if you put paper between 2 tiny llama’s???
Llamanated business cards of course!
by Caitlin

(By the way, that Petite Blythe is the only doll I own, and it was a gift.)

Asteroid Scarf!

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Update: Thank you to CRAFT for sharing this!

I just finished making the biggest (and final!) thing that will be in my show in Berlin.

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It’s a rainbow asteroid scarf! It measures about 26 feet long. That’s a lot of scarf…

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But it’s not for wearing. It’s meant to hang throughout the show, starting at one end on the needles of the giant yarn ball (which is now anthropomorphic and holding a pair of knitting needles), and ending up around the neck of the Snowman Planet. I guess you’ll just have to see it.

The show opens April 6th at Smallspace gallery in Berlin. Join us for the opening at 7 pm if you can!