If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll remember that we held a Tiny Bunny Photo Contest last year and got tons of creative entries. Our first-ever springtime photo contest was such a hit that we’re doing it again! It won’t be bunnies this time, but check back on Monday for the big announcement.

Because this is Easter weekend and we have tons of fabulous photos of tiny bunnies, I’m posting a few bun-tastic favorites from last year. I hope it gets everyone inspired for the new contest, too!

Plotting with my Minions by driveshesaid

CSI Mochimochi Land by Pixi Dragon

Easter Bunny construction crew by mama bird 73

Bunny Aww-ear-ness Day by The Happy Cupcake

Bunnypalooza by GuitarGuy12

Who knew bunnies could be construction workers and crime scene detectives? I can’t wait to see what happens in our next photo contest! By the way, the Tiny Baby Bunnies is a free pattern, if you need a last-minute Easter knit!

Have a happy Easter and Passover, everyone!

I’m feeling almost not worthy of the beautiful poems you wrote about the humble butterfly I posted on Friday! Here’s a sneak preview of the reason I designed a butterfly in the first place.

This is a detail of a piece that will be in my upcoming show in Berlin, which I’ve been working on nonstop for the past several weeks. (More on that soon!)

Moving on: there were so many fantastic poems that I can’t pick a single favorite. I have FOUR favorites, and it was difficult to even narrow it down to that. I’m going to order them here from silliest to most serious.

From Stephanie:

This right here is Tiny Butterfly
She’ll eat any kind of food that comes by!
Whether it’s a slice of rhubarb pie
or a bowl of noodles from Shanghai
even soup which was really fluorescent pink dye!
Hmmmm… that’s probably most likely why…
She has such bright pink wings to fly!

From Sophia:

There once was a little pink butterfly,
Who liked making scrapbooks on Shutterfly.
But one day she tripped…
All her captions were flipped!
That poor little pink “flutterby”.

From Zoe Lowinfell Cauvel :

Petite Lepidoptera, Butterfly.
Fluttering ‘round in my mind’s eye.
More magical than the fourth of July.
Diaphanous wings leave me tongue-tied.
Upon warm breezes glistered wings glide,
and awaken memories of summer time.

From MaryKate:

Migration
The wings of these, the butterflies,
wink their scarlet mist and I utter sighs.
Wisps of membrane, each fold
a fan, somehow hold
the fat forms in air.
I see them there
bobbing along flower
to flower, passing each hour
as though they could live beyond life. Pine
for what they cannot have: the distant buds, time.
Each petal falls and then, they swift of wing do fly
over far-off hills to birth their babes, to die.

I am so eager for spring right now! Because I can’t make myself choose a favorite, all four of these poets will get a set of tiny mochi pins!

(Winners, I’ll email you soon for your addresses.)

Thank you to everyone who contributed a poem!

FatalsAttraction on Flickr gave her Luvbot a very important job: mending broken hearts!

Can I get an awwww from everyone? (There’s no way you’re not awwwwing at that!)

Share your photos of Mochimochi knits in the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group! They’ll be featured in our gallery, and they might show up on the blog too!

Thank you for all the tiny squirrel captions over the weekend! It was too hard to pick a favorite, so the best we could do was narrow it down to three cute ones…

From Lydia:

There once was a squirrel who was keen
On tasting a raw coffee bean.
But it was caffeinated,
Thus he was stimulated
And since then he’s never been seen!

From Starparty2000:

Tiny Squirrel is very sorry he bit the Tiny Snowman, from behind he thought it was a white peanut…

And lastly, from Johnna:

Tiny Squirrel is the one who hoards all those stitch markers and tapestry needles that you thought were lost!

Congrats to these clever caption writers, each of whom will get the upcoming Tiny Fall pattern collection for free! It’s coming to the Mochimochi Shop soon, so please stay tuned for Tiny Squirrel, Tiny Bat, and more!