A couple of days ago I had the idea to try knitting a piano. Once I got into it, my to-do list for the week went out the window, because now it is National Knit a Piano Week in this household.

Many questions have arisen in the process. What is the best non-boring color for a piano? How many keys should a silly nonrealistic representation of a piano have? And of course: lid or no lid?? (That last one has yet to be resolved.)

In my tiny designs, I aspire to make everything as simple as possible, which is a fun challenge. It’s also fun to go a bit in the opposite direction sometimes, and try to make something that involves some geometry and math. (Not swatching, though. Let’s not get carried away.)

Probably by the end of the week I’ll know if this piano has potential for a pattern, or if it was just a fun experiment in knitted instruments. I’ll keep you updated!

Happy Belated Halloween!

Thanks, everyone, for your patience with the website difficulties and the delay in results of the Tiny Witch caption contest. There were so many great entries that we have to go with THREE winners this time, each of whom came up with a very clever spell for our witch.

From Fran:

Dpn, dpn purl and knit,
use scrap yarn, and a dash of wit!
(Tiny Witch’s spell for creating more tiny mochimochi!)

From Mireya:

skeins and spooks ,
needles and hooks,
wake to your delight,
condure and cast
purl and twirl ,
allow my needled knit with all their might!!

And from Glenys:

Spicky spacky, I see you,
Wonky wobbly, what would you do.
Trick or threat, stick or stones,
Potion I’ve made or maybe bones.
But first for breakfast, yup?
How bout eggs sunny side up?

I do believe that Tiny Witch is well equipped to charm her way around Mochimochi Land with these spells.

Since we have three winners, all three will get the Tiny Zombie Kit! Although Halloween is over for this year, we all know that Tiny Zombies are always in style.

Our Tiny Maki is not a snob when it comes to sushi condiments.

Tiny Maki is not just short and stocky,
but very yummy with teriyaki.

That little rhyme is by Cassi, who wins a Tiny Penguin Kit for her caption!

Thank you for all of your Tiny Maki captions! One more sushi bar Tiny coming later this week!

Loved the caption contest entries this weekend! It was hard to choose a favorite, but I found this one irresistible…

Tiny Sushi to Tiny Edamame: Wasabi?
Tiny Edemame: Nato much, you?

That cute double-pun caption is from Bonnie!

I seriously considered knitting up some Tiny Edamame this morning just for this post, but that seemed a little crazy. However, I am thinking it would be awesome to do a collection of sushi bar tiny mochis, as some of you suggested, so edamame is next on my list for that!

For her caption, Bonnie gets the pattern for Flapjack Frogs!

And here are some other pun-tastic entries:

Has anyone seen my umami?
by Carrie

“Why don’t ya come up and sashimi some time?”
by twinsetjan

“Shrimply adorable.”
by Jennifer