Category: Knitted Things

Mochis in TV Japan Ad

Posted on by Anna

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!

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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.

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I wish I could have been there just to see how it was all done!

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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.

Tiny Football is Blushing

Posted on by Anna

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?”

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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!

Tiny Banana Peel Hilarity

Posted on by Anna

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…

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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!

Tiny Doughnut Feels a Little Invisible

Posted on by Anna

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..”

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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!

Knit a Rocket Cozy for Maker Faire

Posted on by Anna

Here’s a fun knitting and crochet project going down at Maker Faire: fiber artist Robyn Love and Lion Brand are organizing NYC knitters to knit a huge cozy for a rocket sculpture. (I’m pretty sure the rocket is from the 1964 World’s Fair.)

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You can stop by the Lion Brand Yarn Studio next Monday or Tuesday night to contribute a section, and you can also knit one up at Maker Faire.

I’ve been following Robyn’s blog for a long time now, so I was excited to read about this. I’ll be at Maker Faire too, so when I can sneak off from the library for a few minutes I’m going to check this out

Hide Your Yarn!

Posted on by Anna

Thank you for all the awesome captions for Tiny Zombie! 67 is a lot to choose from.

Many of you included a reference to Tiny Zombie’s hunger for brains.

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But what he really wants are…

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Skeins…SKEINS…

Thank you for supplying the winning caption, Elise! Now I have to go hide all my yarn from this guy.