I don’t know about you, but my memos are always in a state of disarray. If you’re the winner of the Mochimochi Photo Contest, though, you’ll get to organize your memos in this sophisticated cat Memo Mushi, straight from Japan!
This is just one of the many prizes in store for the winners.
Monday is the deadline for entries—you can still totally knit up a Mochimochi toy and take a funny picture of it by then! See details here.
Kay of Mason-Dixon Knitting got creative with her dog Olive’s Halloween costume this year, and if you have a copy of Knitting Mochimochi, the look might seem a little familiar to you…
That’s right, Kay based Olive’s “Lady Dogga” wig on the Beautiful Beehive from my Pigs with Wigs pattern! According to her blog post, it was quite a feat of engineering to make the wig stay perfectly perched on top of a roaming animal’s head. I am impressed! (It seems up for debate whether Olive was impressed, though.)
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be in Seattle next month at Urban Craft Uprising!
The big craft show will happen at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall on December 4th and 5th with more than 100 vendors selling everything handmade and awesome.
You’ll be able to find me near the entrance with copies of Knitting Mochimochi—there are official signings scheduled for Saturday at 2 pm and Sunday at 1 pm. I’ll also have some hand-knitted tiny things for sale AND I’ll be debuting knitting kits for some of my newest Tiny patterns too!
By the way, if that image above looks slightly “Mochimochi” to you, it’s because I’m responsible for it! Kristen Rask, one of the organizers of UCU, invited me to create the image for this year’s show to go on postcards and t-shirts. This was my first “real” illustration project, so I was a little unsure about the whole thing, and I was thrilled and relieved when my design was approved. I think I’m gradually getting better at using Adobe Illustrator, and I loved this opportunity. Thank you Kristen!
OK, I hope to see those of you in the Seattle area at this awesome event on December 4th and 5th!
Urban Craft Uprising
December 4th & 5th, 11 am – 5 pm
Seattle Center Exhibition Hall
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!