It’s time to pick two people to win copies of the Korean edition of Super-Scary Mochimochi! 11 of you who speak Korean or know someone who does left comments on my post from last week for the giveaway. (I’m not counting my dad, who commented to say that I’m going to need more books, or the other person who commented to say that my dad is amusing.)

And our two randomly-selected winners are…

commenter number 5, Salleigh:

I did independent study of Korean while at university, and also attended the Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, CA, to study Korean. I was stationed in Korea off and on for 7 years as well. I would love a copy of your book so I can learn Korean knitting terminology :)

and commenter number 3, Maria:

My Korean friend would love a book like this and I’m sure her kids would love to have a few super scary mochis.

Congrats, winners! I’ll be emailing you two soon for your addresses.

And if any of you happen to be in Korea and spot this book in the wild (at a bookstore or library), please snap a photo and send it to me! In fact, that goes for any foreign-language edition of any of my books. With each one, the mochis are getting a little bit closer to world domination!

I can hardly believe I’m typing these words, but the book photo shoot is officially wrapped! After 11 straight days of work and 3,175 frames taken, Brandi and I finally tore down the last set with bittersweet feelings late Saturday night. (I only just now have the energy to blog about it.)

Tomorrow I go home to Chicago, where I just might sleep for 3 days straight before finishing up the rest of the work on this book. Of course, every book I’ve written has been a big challenge, but this one has been a challenge of an entirely different nature. My hope is that all the work will result in something pretty cool and unique in 2015.

For those of you who have been waiting for an email or other reply from me in the past few weeks, thank you for your patience. I’ll be back to a more normal life and work schedule soon!

Happy Easter weekend, everyone!

If you’re looking for some last-minute quick knits, check out our FREE springtimey patterns for Grass, Tiny Chickens, Snails & Slugs, and Tiny Baby Bunnies.

Have I mentioned that I’m working on a new book? I’m absolutely psyched about it, although I’m not psyched about having to keep all my recent design work under wraps. It’s so hard not to share!

But it occurred to me this morning that I can share my failures! Actually, that theme goes quite nicely with my post yesterday about being a beginner at a new craft—even though I’m far from a beginner at knitting, I still have plenty of false starts with my new designs. And for the first time I’m collecting all of those “rejects” in one place. It’s the reject bag!

I know, such a small bag. I’m going to need a bigger bag soon. This is where I’m putting all of my samples that didn’t work out for whatever reason. Sometimes it’s because the design didn’t turn out how I wanted, and sometimes it’s just because I decided to use different colors for the final design. Would you like a peek inside?

It strikes me as strange that I never put all of these seconds in one place before. Until recently, they were just scattered everywhere and shoved into random drawers. But I think it will be helpful to have them all collected together—I’m sure I’ll be referring back to these guys occasionally. And it’s just kind of nice to have a place to put the stuff that isn’t trash, and isn’t perfect either.

This makes me wonder what other people do with their failed projects. Do you collect yours somewhere, or just frog them as soon as possible?