What’s a knitted solar system without stars? Lots and lots of stars…
Being a star factory isn’t quite as fun as it might sound, but I’m hoping the finished effect will be worth the tedium. I can’t wait to arrange them into constellations.
In case anyone is wondering, I’m planning to release a star pattern a bit later on this year. For now, these guys are headed for my show in Berlin next month. 37 down, 13 to go!
It turns out that our Tiny Tater Tot is quite the rock star! Look what I caught him singing the other day…
This ain’t a tater for the faint of hearted
No silent bite, cause it’s crunchy and salted.
I ain’t gonna be just a tater in the crowd
You’re gonna shout my goodness
as you eat me out loud….
It’s my life, it’s now or never
I ain’t gonna last forever
I just wanna make your taste buds sing.
Those rockin’ lyrics are courtesy of Diana K, the winner of this week’s caption contest!
Diana will get a PDF pattern from the Mochimochi Shop plus the new Tessellation Dinos cross-stitch pattern. Congrats!
I was super impressed by all the clever caption suggestions this time—here are a few honorable mentions:
PEEL?! I thought you said purl.
Wait a second, i’m guessing now we aren’t going to a BASH either.
by Joan
The tater tot thought and thought,
why did people want him hot?
The grisly truth was then revealed–
He was wanted as a meal!
by Amanda
No longer satisfied with being tucked away along with a few of his friends in a tiny section of a small plastic tray, tater tot dreamed of graduating out of grade school lunch and becoming an exchange student in high school, wanting to be known as a tater tot no more, but as a french fry tater teen.
by Gargoylegrl
My polkadotted cousins are speck tators, and my plain, russet cousins common taters. The kids at the circle cut fry place are rotaters. I may be a tater tot now, but when I grow up, I will be a computater, not some imitater!
by Shelba
Thank you to everyone who contributed!
So I know all of us in the northern hemisphere are ready for winter to be over already, but somehow I’m still hooked on the snowmen this year.
This big guy is going to be part of my show in Berlin in April. See, he’s a planet shaped like a snowman, and the aliens that live on him are all snowmen doing various things like having snowball fights, standing on their heads, and building other snowmen. Making this piece has me realizing just how versatile those little stick arms are. I’m thinking I could fill a whole room with snowmen hijinks if I had nothing better to do!
More photos and details about this show to come.
…and asks the bartender for a water. The bartender gives him a dirty look for not ordering an expensive drink so the tiny duck replies “What? Someone as small as me can’t have a big bill!”
That excellent Tiny Duck joke comes courtesy of Sarah, this week’s caption contest winner! There were many cute entries, but I especially liked Sarah’s incorporation of the duck’s tiny size into the joke.
Congrats, Sarah—you win a free pattern from the Mochimochi Shop!
I had no idea that a tiny match had so many pun possibilities! The prompt was “How does a tiny match introduce himself at a party?” It was hard to choose among all of the references to love matches and “light my fire” shout-outs, but this one made us laugh!
Hi there, I’m Burny!
See, it’s a cute match name that sounds like a real person’s name. We liked that.
Anna submitted this winner, so she gets a free PDF pattern from the Mochimochi Shop!
We also can’t resist honorably mentioning these other two captions:
He hopes to meet his one true flame on match.com by radioactivegan
and
Let’s get lit! by Tiffany
Thanks everyone for your captions!
More than once a knitter has said to me that they accidentally knitted one of my patterns flat, with good results! At first I didn’t understand how that is possible, until I tried it myself: if the design is simple enough, the flat version just needs a little seaming to be very similar to the circular version, with the difference that a smooth stockinette stitch surface will end up as garter stitch if you knit every row.
With this in mind, I recently tried making a completely 3-dimensional design that only used flat knitting, with a little I-cord thrown in.
I was a little surprised to see that if I hadn’t know how it was made, my first guess would have been that it had been knitted on double-pointed needles. I know there are a lot of sophisticated 3-D designs that use flat knitting, but it was fun to try it myself!
So flat knitting doesn’t have to be simple or plain or really flat at all, in the end. I know lots of people prefer it, so I hope to do more “flat” designs in the future.
(By the way, I have no particular plans for the unnamed buggy guys pictured above. But I’m open to ideas!)
Mochimochi Land’s resident weather-reporting groundhog has made his prediction!
Godfrey predicts that it is way more cozy to snuggle up with some Dust Bunnies under the radiator than to huddle inside his cold mound. (The mound’s feelings are a bit hurt, but he’s not denying it either.) Oh, and spring is just around the corner, with all signs pointing to the snow melting by June.
Remember these guys? I’ve been making just a few more in the past couple of months…
Thanks to Koigu (who is supplying me with yarn) and Lion Brand (who is giving me a space), these will turn into a crazy art piece later this year. Look for it in the Lion Brand Yarn Studio in August through October!
I’ll be posting some periodic updates about my progress here until then. I don’t know what form it will take in the end, so it should be a fun process!