Category: Mochimochi Friends

Elf Huddle

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It has been decided that the best way to display cute holiday knits is to arrange them in a circle!

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Miss Cookie has been knitting these darling guys as holiday gifts for her own special elves. The stripes she added make them extra festive, no? You can get the pattern in the shop on its own or as part of the new Holiday package!

I have a feeling I’m not the only one who will be staying up late knitting for the next couple of days. Let us know what YOU’RE frantically trying to finish in the comments!

A Spectrum of Santas

Posted on by Anna

I think we all agree that Bonnie’s winning photo from this year’s Mochimochi Photo Contest was a feat of craft, color, and photography. Here it is again in case you missed it:

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Well, this talented knitter recently reprised her Snowman wreath as a spectrum of Santas!!

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I might even be more in love with the Santa version! Lots of work went into making all these little guys, but the result is incredible. Here’s another shot.

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Like the snowman wreath, if these festive dudes don’t get you in the Christmas spirit, nothing will!

Sweaty, Serengeti, Spaghetti…Tiny Yeti!

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You all made my morning very difficult with so many fantastic Tiny Yeti rhymes to choose from! Fortunately John helped out, and we decided on TWO winners of our Tiny Yet Rhyme-off.

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Oh, no! said the tiny white yeti,
I awoke in the wide Serengeti!
The wildebeests here
Have nothing to fear
‘Cause I can’t make a move; I’m too sweaty!

That’s from Laura!

And our other winner:

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The sweet tiny yeti
Feeling kind of petty
Went to his mother for aid.

No knitter was he
Though he wished he could be
For he was very, very afraid.

“White” he cried!
Is so easily dyed!
Which why I can only eat beans.

But out there he knew
Just out of his view
Was a world of exotic cuisines.

A plethora of berries
Big bright red cherries
All looked to be to his taste.

But the stains they’d impose
Upon his white clothes
Would leave him most disgraced.

The solution however
He felt was most clever
And for it his mother was key.

Just simple knit sweater
Would remove his fetters
He stood and solemnly decreed.

So she worked both day and night
Though she felt the sweater might
Leave her son quite sweaty.

But the tiny yeti felt
It was wonderfully svelte
For he was finally able to eat spaghetti!

That Tiny Yeti tale is by Mariette!

Oh, I just noticed that both of our winners used “sweaty” to rhyme with Yeti. I guess there’s something about a sweaty yeti that is adorable.

For their creative yeti stories and deft rhyming, Laura and Mariette each get a Tiny Santa Kit!

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There were so many other superb rhymes in the comments—definitely worth reading if you’re a yeti fan!

The Mochi of Oz

Posted on by Anna

Even though it didn’t make it into the finals, Hippycritical’s Dorothy and her friends got lots of love in the semifinalist round of the photo contest.

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What you probably didn’t know is that Hippycritical (aka Aimee) made a whole mochi-fied cast of characters from The Wizard of Oz!

Wicked Witch and her Monkeys

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Munchkins (knitted on size 0 needles)

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And the Yellow Brick Road, of course!

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You can see more photos from the series on Aimee’s Flickr page. Kudos to her for such creativity and clever pattern mods!

Tiny Wreath Needs a Smaller Door

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Just how did this ridiculously tiny Tiny Wreath come to be?

A knitter allergic to holiday greens
Wanted a wreath for her door.
She started to knit like a knitting machine,
Sitting while knitting some more.
But when it was finished
Excitement diminished
As she went berserk as she looked at her work:
Instead of using a proper-size yarn
She had knitted with finger-weight yarn!
This wreath, on her door, could barely be seen!
So in frustration,
In pure desperation,
She decided to knit a nativity scene.

That awesome Tiny Wreath poem is by Lydia! For her very merry caption, she wins this adorable holiday tape measure from Tomo and Timo!

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Thank you to Tomo for supplying the prize this week! Check out her Etsy shop to see more very cute tape measures, which would make perfect stocking stuffers for crafty types!

Halloweeny Bunnies

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Check out these fun Halloween-themed TIny Baby Bunnies that Joolieknits came up with!

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She made the vampire bunny, ghost bunny, pumpkin bunnies, and candy corn bunny as part of the Tiny Bunnies Movement. That means she’ll be hiding them for some lucky strangers to find!

You can see what the Tiny Bunnies Movement is all about in their Ravelry group, and get my free pattern for Tiny Baby Bunnies here.

And don’t forget that the Mochimochi Photo Contest is officially open! Fun mods like Joolieknits’ bunnies are perfect for it.

Tiny Baked Potato’s Least Favorite Holiday?

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Listen up! Tiny Baked Potato has a message for the month of October:

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Dear Ghosts, Goblins, and all related paranormal beings,
This Halloween, could we please avoid doing the Monster Mash?
Sincerely, Potato.

That cute caption was contributed by InStitches! For being our favorite this week, you win the pattern for Boo the Bat!

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We have a big announcement coming up tomorrow—be sure to check back for it!

Tiny Pumpkin Says Put the Knife Down

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Tiny Pumpkin may look helpless, but he’s actually an organizer of tiny pumpkins everywhere, as caption contest winner Amanda tells us!

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Tiny Pumpkin, President and CEO of 2 Cute 2 Carve, a non-profit, knitted, incorporation.

(Pictured with Tiny Pumpkin are his Director of Pumpkin Resources and his Vice President of curly vines.)

For her cute caption, Amanda wins the pattern for Gobbledyghost!

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Thank you to everyone who contributed their captions!