Category: Events

YarnCon is coming!

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Omelet is getting excited about YarnCon!

Don’t tell him, but I haven’t yet decided if he’s coming this year. 😬 But I CAN say that there will be a world of tiny knitted cats and dogs and dinosaurs there, along with plenty of kits, including hand-dyed tiny dinosaur kits that you can check out in person and choose by color combo.

Haven’t heard of Yarncon? It’s just the most fun and interesting yarn market in Chicago! It’s a great place to see what all the cool indie dyers are up to. And they let me unfurl Mochimochi Land there! AND it’s free to attend!

Visit Yarncon April 11-12 at the Chicago Plumbers Union Hall, 1340 W Washington Blvd. Check out the YarnCon website for more info. See you there!

Knit tiny crabs with meeeee!

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Knit tiny crabs with me in December!

I’m thrilled to be joining the lineup for Melissa Leapman’s newest virtual tour, Under the Sea!

It’ll be a weekend of aquatic-themed virtual workshops with fiber luminaries Xandy Peters, Franklin Habit, Romi Hill, Holli Yeoh, Safiyyah Talley, Keith Leonard, and Julie Dubreux. And me!

The tiny crabs are a pattern that last appeared in my 2015 book Adventures in Mochimochi Land. Since then, they’ve been waiting for another moment in the sun, and it’s here! The crabs are super quick to make, totally simple, and tons of fun. You’ll want to make so many! Sign up via Melissa Leapman’s website.

Join me in NYC for Vogue Knitting Live this January

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I’m excited to be returning to epic fiber crafts event Vogue Knitting Live in early 2026! This year I’ll be teaching three classes, each of which will feature different kinds of tiny toy knitting fun. General registration is now open!

👯‍♀️ Knit a Tiny You (or anybody!)
In this project-oriented class, we’ll start with a basic pattern for a 1-3”-tall human, then go into all kinds of ways you can customize it to create individuals representing yourself, your friends, your favorite celebs and characters—anything that walks on two legs! Techniques that we’ll cover include I-cord and circular knitting, shaping through basic increase and decrease stitches, embroidery, color work, needle felting, and anything else that might come up through participants’ interests.


🐴 Knit a Teeny-Tiny Good Luck Horse for the Year of the Horse! (NEW!)
We’ll cover tiny toy knitting techniques from basic to intermediate in this class, including knitting in the round on double-pointed needles, I-cords, simple embroidery, and more. You’ll walk out with a horse of your own, or a project that’s well on its way to completion and a skill set that will allow you to knit all kinds of tiny animals.
❗️ The tiny horse pattern for this class hasn’t even been designed yet! It will be brand new for 2026! (Keep an eye on my IG stories for some sneak peeks 👀)


🐱 Knit a Tiny Cat (NEW!)
Let’s knit tiny cats together! In this class, we’ll cover toy techniques, like working with a small number of stitches on double-pointed needles, I-cord limbs, and picking up stitches for ears and a tail. You can choose if you’ll make a walking cat or a seated cat. We’ll also discuss embroidered variations and how to customize your cat by breed.

These classes will be so much fun, and there are so many others now on offer from amazing teachers and designers. Plus a marketplace, yarn giveaways, and plenty of other fun. See you in Times Square!

August 15: Delicious Dogs virtual workshop with MDK 🌭

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Happy summer! I’m excited to be teaching a virtual DELICIOUS DOGS workshop with Modern Daily Knitting during this summer’s dog days (or close enough)—August 15th!

Join me in making a cute and classic little hot doggie in this 2.5-hour online workshop. Don’t forget the mustard! We’ll cover all the tiny toy knitting basics: Knitting in the round with a small circumference on double-pointed needles, I-cord appendages for teeny legs, picking up and knitting stitches for the flappy ears, and simple embroidery for the features. Plus, a bit of mattress stitch to seam your dog’s bun halves together.

And this workshop comes with a kit to make three delicious dogs, including my ice cream doggie and doggie slider!

See the MDK website for all the details and registration.

I hope to see you and your dogs there!

We ❤️ YarnCon

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YarnCon this year was the best ever, and that’s saying a lot because this beloved Chicago indie fiber fair was already the best thing of its kind 🧶✨

Thank you to everybody who came out, everybody who checked out POOCHIPOOCHI Land, everybody who said hi, and everybody who bought stuff from me. (I love that I had to restock books, and almost sold out!)

The biggest thanks to Kristine Brandel for being the best imaginable help with this event (including all the prep that goes into it), and the biggest thanks to the wonderful people who work so hard to make YarnCon special every year!

VKL 2025!

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The Vogue Knitting Live skyscrapers made a personal appearance at the NYC show’s art gallery last weekend, walking a runway, posing in an art gallery, buying all the yarn possible, playing in a yarn ball pit, etc, etc!

It was fun to bring the props from the videos out to let these guys play IRL as their animations—all TWELVE of them—played on a monitor nearby.


(These are the first six—I still need to upload the rest to YouTube.)

My classes were also a ton of fun—I hope those who took them would agree! We made unicorns together and tiny knitted versions of ourselves and our favorite people. This was honestly the first time I felt (almost) totally relaxed about teaching and just enjoyed it. (The document camera on my hands with the footage projected on a screen helped a lot.)

Thank you to everyone who took my classes, who bought stuff from me, who checked out my little diorama, and who said hello in their gorgeous hand-knitted and -crocheted outfits. And thank you to the people of VKL!

You can see a little reel with videos and more photos of cool stuff from the show on my Instagram.

December 13th: Knit kitties with me and Modern Daily Knitting!

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I am thrilled to be teaching an all-new virtual workshop with Modern Daily Knitting. On December 13th, join me online to knit my classic Cat in a Box, just in time for cozy winter gifting. You’ll come away with all the skills you need to knit a Cat in a Bag and a Cat in a Life Preserver—and all the yarn you’ll need, too! We’ve created custom cozy cat kits (that include stickers!) for the occasion. 

Sign up and get the kit on the Modern Daily Knitting website. I can’t wait to see you there! 

See you at Vogue Knitting LIVE NYC in January!

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Vogue knitting LIVE is returning to NYC in January 2025! I was excited to be asked to spread the word with the help of some animated skyscrapers. These little videos have been appearing on the Vogue Knitting social accounts and in their newsletters. With more to come!

I’ll also be teaching at this event! Here are the classes I’m offering:

🦄🌈✨ Tiny Toy Knitting Basics: Unicorns and Rainbows
In this class, we’ll knit a tiny unicorn together, covering all the techniques from start to finish: knitting on double-pointed needles, I-cord legs and horn, and embroidering a magical mane and tail. We’ll also go over how to use mattress stitch to shape knitted tubes into a little rainbow, so your unicorn can have a friend! This is a great class to start with if you’re new to knitting toys, tiny toys, or circular knitting. The simple unicorn body can also be turned into all sorts of four-legged creatures!

👨🏻👩🏽🤷‍♀️ Knit a Tiny You (or Anybody)
In this *all new* project-oriented class, we’ll start with a basic pattern for a 1”-3”-tall human, then go into all kinds of ways you can customize it to create individuals representing yourself, your friends, your favorite celebs and characters—anything that walks on two legs! Techniques that we’ll cover include I-cord and circular knitting, shaping through basic increase and decrease stitches, embroidery, color work, needle felting, and anything else that might come up through participants’ interests.

I’ll probably also be displaying my artwork and vending at the marketplace. It’s gonna be a big weekend!

Registration is now open at the Vogue Knitting website. See you there!