So what do a pair of twin popsicles talk about while they’re biding their time in the freezer? The world never knew… until now!
“We should have our own clothing line, like the Olsen twins.”
“But clear plastic is sooooo last season.”
That awesome caption was suggested by Heather, who wins a free pattern for Flapjack Frogs. Yay!
Many of you came up with super cute and funny captions—you can read them all in comments to this post.
So, what does Tiny Crab do when the temperature rises and he’s feeling hot and crabby?
Tiny crab is trying to pinch out the last bit of sunscreen. He’s starting to look like a lobster!
That cute caption comes from Les! Congrats, Les! That means you win a free PDF pattern for Rainycloud.
You know what this week needed? A kick line of naked gnomes!
These guys are dancing with excitement because we’re all going to TNNA this weekend! I’ll be wandering around on Saturday and Sunday, and I’ll be doing a special preview book signing of Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi on Sunday at the Unicorn booth at 12:30 pm. This will be my first time to see the finished book! (Sadly, everyone else will have to wait until the official release date of August 17th.)
This is my first time at TNNA, and I can’t wait. I hope to see many of you retailers, wholesalers, and designers there!
OK, there was some seriously silly spell-making going on in the Tiny Wizard comments over the weekend! It was sooo hard to choose a winner this time. But after reading them through a couple of times, one super silly poem stood out to me:
Tiny Wizard used to be big
and not so very much nimble;
But he’s shrunk himself down
close to the ground
nearly the size of a thimble;
You would think that this guy
in a much bigger size
would love spells
that make people tremble;
But true to his heart
he uses his art
to make sure he beats Yoda at limbo!
That awesomely written epic was by Sarah! So Sarah wins the pattern for Hugs + Squoze. Yay, congrats!
I was going to list some honorable mentions, but there were just too many that I loved this time! So I encourage you to look back at all of the spells in the comments. It’s participation like this that makes me excited about knitting and blogging all over again. Thank you to all who contributed spells!
Some of you might be interested to see how Tiny Wizard looks beside his cousin Tiny Gnome. The family resemblance is definitely there.
(Tiny Gnome looks a little wary of that wand… But mostly I think he’s just jealous about the cape.)
We had nearly 80 caption submissions for Tiny Lemon—sweet! Many of you had him trying to talk his way out of being made into lemonade in adorable ways. We decided that Tiny Lemon might have something else on his mind…
Tiny dyslexic lemon isn’t afraid of being squeezed, but don’t show him the melon baller!
That caption was from Michelle, who wins a free PDF pattern for Campy and the Mallows. Yay!
Thank you to everyone for the fun lemony captions!
One of the cool things about Tinys is that you can easily make them into different things like ornaments, pins, or jewelry. Check out this Tiny Gnome ring I made yesterday!
It’s really easy to do. I just made a knitted band out of the yarn I had leftover from knitting my gnome. For my medium-sized finger, I cast on 24 sts onto size 1 DPNS and worked a k1, p1 rib for 3 rounds, then bound off the stitches.
I used the loose ends on the band to stitch the gnome on, and now he’s turned into fashion! (He’s pretty proud of himself.) You can do this with pretty much any Tiny pattern—all you have to do is figure out how many stitches you need to cast on for the band.
If you make a Tiny ring, be sure to sure a photo in the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group so we can all see!
Thank you all for your terrific captions for our Tiny Grub! Many of them were first-person grub quotes, including our favorite…
Celebrities in my jungle, this won’t end well.
Hilarious! The author of that witticism is Mummy, who wins a free Tiny kit from the Mochimochi Shop!
Also, there was a very strong runner-up this time that we simply have to give props to as well:
There once was a tiny yarn grub
Who wished for a bath in a tub
So that he would be clean,
White and pristine,
Instead of in need of a scrub!
That adorable poem was from Lydia. We thought she deserved something too, so she’s getting the Tiny Things Collection 5 Patterns. Yay!
Thanks again to everyone who participated!
I recently started working on a toilet design, because Tubby the bathtub needs a friend! I hadn’t given it much thought before, but it turns out that toilets are much more complex than bathtubs, what with the bowl and the tank and everything in between.
To figure out the design, I started by sketching what I think a toilet looks like. Then, I did a Google image search to see what actual toilets look like. (Yes, I was too lazy to walk across my apartment to the bathroom and look at my own toilet.) Then it was back to the notebook for more sketching. Maybe because I’m not so skilled with a pencil, my technique is slapdash: basically, doodle toilets over and over again until I begin to like what I see.
Here you see I’ve finished knitting a bowl, and I’m trying to decide how to do the rest of it. I’m happy to say that I finished up my toilet over the weekend, but—oh no!—not before seeing Katie Boyette’s blog post about the knitted toilet in her upcoming book, More Knitwits!
Katie’s design is pretty genius (especially because it seems to solve the balance problem perfectly), but I’d rather not have my project go down the toilet just because she had the idea too. Surely there is room in the knitting world for more than one toilet, right? Plus, Katie’s super cool and she seems OK with my going ahead with it.
I still have some little bits to finish up with my design, then it will take a while to create the pattern. (It’s not as complex as Grouchy Couch, but it comes close…) If all goes well, Flushie the Toilet will be out and about in a few months!