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Happy Neigh Year

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Happy New Year!

How appropriate that 2026 is the year of the horse—we’re going to need the fortitude of a whole band of horses to power through. Let’s do this together!

The PDF pattern for these lucky little horses is now available here in my shop and on Ravelry. And we also have kits!

Techniques include I-cord for ears and legs and a tiny bit of mattress stitch to attach the muzzle. Videos will help you at key points along the way.

The Lunar New Year begins February 17th. This is the fifth installment in my series of Chinese zodiac animals. (You can find the others on my website as patterns and kits too.) I’ve personally got to make it through another year if only to knit the next one!

Drool Runnings pattern now FREE with purchase!

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It’s a Mochimochi Land holiday tradition: a brand-new holiday pattern, and it’s free with purchase!

For a limited time, spend $5 on anything in the Mochimochi Shop, use the code DROOL at checkout, and the new Drool Runnings pattern will appear in your cart, like holiday magic! (No need to add the pattern to your cart.)

The pattern is a PDF download that you can access immediately in your browser. A download link will also arrive by email.

Drool Runnings calls for fingering-weight yarn in 7-9 colors and a set of size 1 DPNs. You’ll also need a little polyester stuffing, a small tapestry needle, and two pipe cleaners that you’ll insert into the sled runners.

This little bit of holiday joy knits up in a day or two for quick gifting! At the original size, this project makes an adorable holiday toy (for kids 3 and older), ornament, or tabletop decor (just add fake snow!). You can also scale the whole thing up a bit by using thicker yarn and appropriately sized needles.

Also available as a kit that includes pattern, yarn, stuffing, and pipe cleaners!

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, the idea for this pattern came from my dad, and I had so much fun creating the design. I hope these jolly dogs and their super sled will help make your holidays bright too!

My thanks to Marilyn Passmore for tech editing this pattern and to Kristine Brandel for test knitting.

The 2025 holiday kit is here!

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And it’s doggies!

I’m so excited to unveil this year’s Mochimochi Land holiday pattern: Drool Runnings!

These jolly doggies in their speedy sled were inspired by my dad’s stories of racing down any hill he and his siblings could find in their snowy Chicago suburb in the 1950s and ’60s.

For now, this pattern is available as a kit only (with the PDF download coming soon)—you get the pattern and all the yarn, stuffing, and pipe cleaners you need to knit a sled and two pups, Santa hats and all. You’ll need to supply a set of size 1 US (2.25mm) double-pointed needles and a tapestry needle.

Techniques include a few rounds of stranded colorwork, mattress stitch (for assembling the sled), and I-cord. Photos and demo videos will help you along at key points.

The entire project can be knitted up in a day or two, for a quick handmade gift. (And would make a very cute pairing with Short Dog, Long Dog!) Or the kit itself makes a sweet gift for your knitting friends who already have everything.

I wanted this year’s holiday pattern to be absolutely bursting with joy, so I hope that comes through!

Find the kit in the Mochimochi Shop.

A WOOLLY WOOLLY Welcome!

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I have big news! TV-big!

WOOLLY WOOLLY is a new animated series based on the world that I’ve been knitting since 2007. More than eight years in the making, this show goes beyond my wildest dreams of where my stitches could go, thanks to Groupe PVP, co-producer Normaal, and an incredible production team that spans two continents!
The episodes, which are created for a preschool audience, follow the adventures of a family of knitted gnomes (the Woollys) and the creatures who live in their woolly world. The Woollys can knit anything! So soft, cozy adventures and creative play abound.

Each story begins as two “real life” kids turn to their knitted friends to work through something in their non-knitted lives. I love how this captures the imagination and anything-is-possible rules of real kids engaging in open-ended creative play.

In addition being an executive producer, I’ve been involved with WOOLLY WOOLLY as a creative consultant throughout its development, so I’ve gotten to work with the uber talented team of designers, writers, and animators who have brought this world to life.

The series is computer animated with a stop-motion style that blows me away every time I see it. Seriously, from the textures to the movement to the little bits of fuzziness, director Emmanuel Linderer has created some unbelievable woolly magic!

The 52 11-minute episodes of WOOLLY WOOLLY are now airing in Canada on TVOkids and TVOkids Smart TV App, and on Knowledge Network and its Knowledge Kids App.

The French version is airing in Canada on TOU.TV and on ICI TÉLÉ as LES WOULLIS, and it’s available in Europe on France TV as WOOLLY WOOLLY.

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(Will WOOLLY WOOLLY come to other countries outside of France and Canada?? I sure hope so! And I’ll be sure to share the news when that happens.)

You can meet all the Woollys and learn more about their world, and even play a little Woolly game at woollywoolly.tv.

I’m so grateful to everyone who’s been involved in this project. I hope it will amuse and delight the kids and adults who see it, and it’s my dream that it will inspire viewers to create their own worlds, woolly or otherwise!

Romantic Pterodactyls

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Love is in the air for two romantic pterodactyls 💕

This scene is inspired by my newest tiny dinosaur pattern, Ptara the Ptiny Pterodactyl—now available in the Knitrino app.

You probably won’t be able to knit just one Ptara, and you definitely won’t be able to resist making them soar majestically through the air while you screech your best pterodactyl sounds. (SCREECH SCREECH SREEEEEEECH means “I love you!”)

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy New Year

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🐍 2025 is the Year of the Snake! 🐍

The new year is already sending us swerves and surprises—to put it mildly—so why not knit a tiny snake or two for good luck? We’ll need it!

This sassy-sweet pattern is now available as a PDF download (Both here on Ravelry as Snake Charmer) and as a kit.

The quick project incorporates a bit of I-cord, intarsia knitting, and knitting in the round. You’ll add a pipe cleaner before seaming the belly with mattress stitch for a pose-able tail.

Linked videos will help you with intarsia, mattress stitch, and embroidery to give your snake a cute lil forked tongue.

The kit comes with the printed pattern, enough yarn and and stuffing to knit two snakes in red and gold, plus color-coordinated pipe cleaners to give your snakes’ tails a stylish swivel. (The matching colors help keep the pipe cleaner invisible inside.)

Here’s to a year of just enough smarts and silliness to succeed 🐍

Thank you to Marilyn Passmore for tech editing and Kristine Brandel for testing 💛

A little behind-the-scenes after the jump!

Continue reading “Happy New Year” →

2024 holiday pattern: Koko and Puff!

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Our 2024 holiday pattern is here and it’s brimming with cheer!

And it’s FREE with $5 purchase all this month!

Drink in the merry cuteness that is Koko and Puff, warming holiday friends to knit, share, and enjoy. Because nothing brightens a winter’s day like a cup of hot chocolate, topped with a marshmallow and the teeniest candy cane you’ve ever seen.

✨☕️ Use the code MERRYMUG after adding $5 in products from the Mochimochi Shop, and the Koko and Puff pattern will magically appear in your cart! ☕️✨

You can also purchase the pattern on its own via Ravelry.

Koko and Puff is a seamless, super simple project, with nothing more complicated than I-cord, yarnovers, and one wrap & turn (demonstrated in a linked video).

The construction was inspired by those cute “take apart” erasers that you’ve probably seen in gift shops. It’s so satisfying to pop in the hot chocolate, and it means that you can knit and swap out other drinks. (Matcha egg nog, anyone?)

Scrap yarn works well for this project, plus you may want a bit of wool or yarn and a needle felting tool to add those cute lil cheeks. ☺️

And this pattern comes with secret BONUS mods! Can you guess what they are?? 😉

Big thank-yous to Marilyn Passmore for her tech editing, and to Kristine Brandel for testing this pattern.

I hope you all love knitting Koko and Puff as much as I loved designing them! Happy Holidays, everybody!

New Pattern: Computer Cat =^.^=

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I’m so excited to announce my newest Catside pattern: Computer Cat!

Computer Cat is a multitasker, working hard at getting comfy and deleting your progress at the same time. An inspiration to screen addicts everywhere!

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Now available as a PDF download AND in two kit options: fuzzy white and fuzzy surprise color!

The cat is a seamless knit that uses grafting to finish, and the computer is knit flat with intarsia colorwork for the screen, with some mattress-stitch assembly. The pattern includes five BONUS intarsia designs for the computer screen, along with three templates for you to create your own graphics.

This is a great project for scrap yarn, or get all the yarn and stuffing you’ll need with a kit. Featuring Chicago-based Gnome Depot Fiber Lion’s Mane Suri Lace (a baby alpaca/silk blend), the kit comes with yarn to make a computer and a fuzzy cat in white OR a fuzzy cat in a surprise hand-dyed color!

Computer Cat is modeled after a cat that appears in my picture book Catside Up, Catside Down: A Book of Prepositions, published by Feiwel and Friends. It makes a purrfect gift to go with the book!

Many thanks to Marilyn Passmore for her tech editing, and to Kristine Brandel for testing.

Also available on Ravelry!