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!
So VK Live starts tomorrow! I’ll be there all weekend, and I’m bringing someone new with me…
Be sure to stop by the gallery area and say hi!
Just before my show opening last month, I was fortuitously connected with a producer for TV Japan, which is a Japanese-language network available in the US and Canada. She was making a commercial promoting the upcoming season of programming from Japan, and was looking for some cute models to create a fun city scene to intersperse between the show clips. It just so happened that I had recently created an entire knitted world for my show, so she borrowed almost the entire installation for the commercial!
Because the ad includes clips of shows that I don’t have rights to use, I unfortunately can’t show the finished product here (it aired in mid to late October on TV Japan), but the producer sent me some photos from the shoot!
They did a live-action shoot of the little world, using something (wire or magnets, I think) to make toy cars move around. Aside from the cars, they also incorporated characters that the producer handmade herself.
I wish I could have been there just to see how it was all done!
It was very cool to have my toys involved in a commercial project, and I would love to do more things like this in the future.
Thank you all for your cute tiny football captions over the weekend!
It turned out that Raydra had the best answer to the question “What does this tiny football contemplate when he’s just been kicked in the mud?”
I really hope that cute pom pom didn’t see that.
Nice job, Raydra! That means you get a free pdf pattern from the Mochimochi Shop!
Today’s “How-Tuesday” post on Etsy’s blog The Storque features a free Mochimochi pattern! Head on over to learn how to make your own Petite Pencil from my book Knitting Mochimochi.
Julie at The Storque also had some nice things to say about my book in the post—thank you, Julie!
And if you’re a new visitor to my blog from Etsy: welcome!
It turns out that a tiny knitted banana peel was ripe for all kinds of comedy—there were many hilarious captions among the 70-plus suggestions!
It was hard to choose just one, but the win goes to…
That’s what you’d call a slip-stitch…
Congrats, Juul! That means you get a free PDF pattern from the Mochimochi Shop.
Honorable mentions:
How to break out of comedy and be taken seriously as an actor!
(Bonney)
“Bet no one else can do the splits as well as me!”
(Karen)
Just a moment ago I was giving a wonderful hug… Now? I feel kind of empty inside.
(MrsB)
i’m more appealing than that mushy ol’ banana anyway!
(Kara S)
What a fruitless day I’ve had!
(Peg of Tilling)
I need to check my liability insurance!
(claire)
Nice job, everyone!
So what is life like for a Tiny Doughnut?
Laura summed it up best in her winning caption: “and sometimes.. people stare at me as if they can just see right through me..”
Aw, poor tiny doughnut. But congrats to Laura, who gets a free PDF pattern from the Mochimochi Shop for her caption!
Some people answered the question at the top of this post a bit more literally, and honorable mention goes to Bonney, for her answer:
Short!