Look what came the other day!

Finally, my own copy of Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi! But as you can see, it was quickly claimed by a Tiny Gnome.

First he found the Tiny Hot Dog, and immediately demanded that I make him one. (I told him to finish looking at the book first.)

Next he checked out the who’s-who of knitted folks like him. Tiny Mermaid seemed to catch his eye…

Then he found his favorite page!

Tiny Gnome decided he had seen all the highlights worth seeing. Now where is that Tiny Hot Dog I promised?

Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi is coming out August 16th! You can pre-order it on Amazon and the Barnes & Noble website. In August, you’ll be able to find it in many local yarn stores, and signed copies will be available in the Mochimochi Shop!

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.

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 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.)

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!