Oiyi is a friend and one of my superstar testers, and she did a great job testing my new Forest Friends cross-stitch pattern a while back. She recently showed a pic of her results on her blog.
Beautiful! Oiyi was a big help in making the pattern as user-friendly as possible.
Oiyi is actually venturing into knitwear designing herself, and she just released a pattern for this gorgeous shawl.
The design is called Kouyou, and you can buy the pattern as a download on her blog.
Who else can’t get enough pandas? I was at Kinokuniya the other day and just couldn’t resist these cute folders!
I snapped them up to add to the prizes for the Mochimochi Photo Contest. So if you enter, you could soon be organizing your papers with the help of these pandas. Deadline is next Monday, November 15th!
Thank you all for your cute tiny football captions over the weekend!
It turned out that Raydra had the best answer to the question “What does this tiny football contemplate when he’s just been kicked in the mud?”
I really hope that cute pom pom didn’t see that.
Nice job, Raydra! That means you get a free pdf pattern from the Mochimochi Shop!
I was so happy to be at Loops in Tulsa on Thursday evening! Owner Shelley invited me to give a talk about Knitting Mochimochi—we had a great turnout, and this was a very special event because my family and hometown friends could be there too.
I was joined by Brandi Simons, the local photographer who was responsible for all the beautiful photos in the book. It was so much fun to reminisce about our shoots from the spring of last year. Together we talked about our most difficult shoot (for the Cuter Polluters, involving locating the perfect oil drum and then dealing with a windy day and allergies) and how we involved many of our families and friends for the different images.
(By the way, these great photos were taken by Brandi’s husband Mike Simons. They are quite the power-photojournalist couple.)
One fabulous touch that Shelley dreamed up was these fantastic Feet Eater cupcakes! They were custom ordered from Merritt’s in Tulsa.
Amazingly, those weren’t the only Mochimochi-themed desserts of my weekend in Tulsa. My friends Brianna and Michelle baked these awesome cookies for a party the following night!
It was a very nice trip home. Thank you to everyone who made it so special!
It’s about time a piece of sporting equipment was represented in tiny knitted form, don’t you think?
What does this tiny football contemplate when he’s just been kicked in the mud?
Winning caption by Raydra:
I really hope that cute pom pom didn’t see that.
Leave your caption in the comments, and the best one will win a free PDF pattern from the Mochimochi Shop on Monday!
Good news, everyone! A new Tiny Things pattern collection is now in the Mochimochi Shop!
It’s been so nice to get ongoing requests for new Tiny patterns. It seems like I can’t release them fast enough! These four—panda, zombie, bee, and cheeseburger—are another selection of my favorites from the past year or so of Tiny Things, so I’m excited to release the patterns for everyone to try.
You can buy the pattern collection as a PDF download for $5 here!
OK, so I just blogged about holiday knitting, but then I also just spotted this awesome Halloween Rainycloud that I had to share!
That’s right, a clever knitter dressed a Rainycloud up as a spooky ghost, with a separate sheet for each of the Rainydrops!
fullerenedream added these photos to the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group, so they’re in the running for the Mochimochi Photo Contest! Be sure to add your photos by November 15th!
November has barely begun, but I suspect that many knitters already have their holiday knitting well underway. (Not me, though…) Yarngirl69 is putting me to shame with a mini tree of Mochimochi Snowmen that she whipped up last month.
This festiveness is irresistible! We all might as well just succumb to Snowman Season already.
The Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi Snowmen pattern is available for just $2 in the Mochimochi Shop. And for those of you who are fans of tiny things, a new pattern collection is coming any minute now!