WInning caption by Anna:
Hi there, I’m Burny!
How does this tiny match introduce himself at parties? Leave your caption in the comments, and we’ll choose a winner on Monday to get a free PDF pattern from the Mochimochi Shop!
By the way, this tiny match was inspired by this neat-o needle felted version done by Moxie.
Just spotted this in the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group!
Kelly made dozens of Hearts for this spectacular Valentines yarn bombing. I love that she also gave that frigid-looking tree a sweater!
See what other people are making with Mochimochi patterns in the gallery, and add your own in the
Flickr group.
Update: Thanks to CRAFT for the link!
Soupy told me about a dream he had the other day…
No, this is not a camera trick. But it’s also not completely made of yarn. It’s going to be part of my new show in Berlin! This big ball of yarn will become a kind of sun at the center of a fiber solar system, and it’s going to be knitting an asteroid belt out of itself… Anyway, it’s going to be cute.
The show will be part of the Character Walk of exhibitions in the Pictoplasma Festival, which is happening April 6-9 in Berlin. And I get to go to Berlin for the first time! Unfortunately, Soupy has an important business meeting and can’t come.
But I think I know what he’ll be dreaming about for a while.
Many thanks to Lion Brand for the yarn! I’ll post more updates and info as the show gets closer.
Since moving to New York a few years back, I’ve enjoyed Valentines Day more. Seeing many of the normally stoic subway commuters carrying around goofy stuffed animals and bunches of flowers for a day is kind of touching. I’m hoping that a few people out there somewhere will be carrying a pair of knitted lovebirds today too!
Here are some coo-able Coos and Coys made by my awesome pattern testers, most of whom used a surprisingly similar color palate…
Thank you to Kari, Jennifer, Marilyn, and Marti for the test! There are also other Coos and Coys with neat variations on Ravelry.
And if you need a last-minute Valentine, remember that you can download free Coo and Coy ones here.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
This week’s Tiny Thing is a very big deal to me!
A knitted star is something I’ve attempted several different times in the past few year, and I never got it right until now. (There is a perfectly good knitted star pattern already out there by Kira Moffet, but sometimes it’s important to me to make my own version.)
There’s something else special about this Tiny Star—it will be going with me to Berlin in April for a new solo show! I’ll share more details about that soon, but right now I need to get back to knitting for it.
Let’s continue the caption contest next week!
A few months ago, I started putting together kits for five of my Tiny patterns. I’ve been trying them out at some craft shows and also in a few shops—by all accounts, they’ve been a hit!
Each kit contains the pattern, enough yarn to make 2 or 3 of the tiny projects (depending on the kit), and stuffing. I’m thinking about adding these to my own shop sometime soon, but for now they’re just available in retail stores. In NYC, you can find them at Knitty City, Brooklyn General, and Saffron. They are also carried at Schmancy in Seattle and at Clay Wood & Cotton in Beacon, NY.
If you’re a retailer interested in the kits, please contact me at info [at] mochimochiland [dot] com. If you’re interested in the kits but not a retailer, please encourage your LYS or local crafty boutique to get in touch!
Here’s another lovely way to use knitted hearts—make them into a mobile!
Ozarkgarden on Ravelry made this after getting inspired from a mobile shown on the Living Crafts blog. (An issue of Living Crafts is also where the dove pattern came from.) The combination of the yarn and the branch is so simple and beautiful.
As always, my Hearts pattern is free, right here!
I just had to share this exciting news: John is in the new “Gamer’s Edition” of the Guinness World Records book!
As you can see, he set a record of the most Gamerscore points achieved on the Xbox 360 in a 24-hour period. His original purpose for playing randomly point-generous games on the Xbox for 24 hours straight wasn’t to set a record per se, but to prove a point about meaningless points for an article for Eurogamer.
This happened in May of last year, smack in the middle of the first heat wave that we had in NYC. (No air conditioning for us.) It was grueling for him, and not easy to watch once he hit hour 18 or so. The whole thing was pretty surreal, and the bizarreness was enhanced by the fact that one of the games he spent the most time with—and I’m not kidding here —was Hannah Montana: The Movie. (It gives you mega points right and left for riding a horse and doin’ your thing on stage.)
I took this picture of him at the end of the 24 hours, which had begun at 10 am the previous morning.
Congrats, John! Please never try this again.
You can keep up with my husband the games writer and TV critic at his blog.