As I mentioned a few days ago, a new cross-stitch pattern will be coming to the Mochimochi Shop this week! In the meantime, I thought I’d give a little intro tutorial on the how-to page for people who haven’t cross-stitched before. I hope you’ll give it a try!
So I know all of us in the northern hemisphere are ready for winter to be over already, but somehow I’m still hooked on the snowmen this year.
This big guy is going to be part of my show in Berlin in April. See, he’s a planet shaped like a snowman, and the aliens that live on him are all snowmen doing various things like having snowball fights, standing on their heads, and building other snowmen. Making this piece has me realizing just how versatile those little stick arms are. I’m thinking I could fill a whole room with snowmen hijinks if I had nothing better to do!
More photos and details about this show to come.
…and asks the bartender for a water. The bartender gives him a dirty look for not ordering an expensive drink so the tiny duck replies “What? Someone as small as me can’t have a big bill!”
That excellent Tiny Duck joke comes courtesy of Sarah, this week’s caption contest winner! There were many cute entries, but I especially liked Sarah’s incorporation of the duck’s tiny size into the joke.
Congrats, Sarah—you win a free pattern from the Mochimochi Shop!
So a Tiny Duck walks into a bar…
Finish that joke in the comments, or write a different sort of caption—our favorite will win a free PDF pattern from the Mochimochi Shop on Monday!
I stitched up this prehistoric tessellation design about a year ago, and I’ve finally made a pattern for it. Look out for it in the Mochimochi Shop soon!
If you live around NYC, you should definitely check out the needle felting show opening next week at gallery hanahou! It’s actually going to be four mini solo shows by my four favorite needle felting artists.
and Moxie!
I can’t wait! The opening is next Thursday, March 3rd. There will also be a needle felting workshop with Moxie on Saturday, March 5th. See full details at the gallery website.
As several of you have pointed out in the comments, Soupy made it big last week as an official locat!
I thought my original photo was funny, but that caption has me loling for real.
I had no idea that a tiny match had so many pun possibilities! The prompt was “How does a tiny match introduce himself at a party?” It was hard to choose among all of the references to love matches and “light my fire” shout-outs, but this one made us laugh!
Hi there, I’m Burny!
See, it’s a cute match name that sounds like a real person’s name. We liked that.
Anna submitted this winner, so she gets a free PDF pattern from the Mochimochi Shop!
We also can’t resist honorably mentioning these other two captions:
He hopes to meet his one true flame on match.com by radioactivegan
and
Let’s get lit! by Tiffany
Thanks everyone for your captions!