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My Knit Stars class is back at a special price đŸ’«

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Summer is a great time to get nerdy about our interests—to really go deep and have a new experience with what’s normally a casual hobby. What if this summer you did that with knitting toys?

For the first time, my Knit Stars masterclass is available on its own, AND it’s on sale right now!

What comes with the class? First of all, this adorable pattern that’s not available anywhere else.

The Squeezable Kingdom is my favorite kind of knitted toy project, combining big and small, lots of interactivity, and characters ripe for storytelling and even animating!

The masterclass includes my personal instruction on how to tackle all the tricky parts of the castle (which you work in bulky yarn), how to do all the little bits that go into the characters who live with the castle (worked in fingering-weight yarn) and how to modify them to make an endless variety of tiny people and creatures.

Additionally, I give a look into my design process, and there’s even a segment on how I animate my characters. And of course, like all Knit Stars classes, it comes with a documentary-style peek into my life, my studio, my neighborhood, and what else I’m up to in my creative life.

Why do I look so serious? Probably because I had a camera pointed at me in public!

Previously this masterclass was only available as part of the Knit Stars Season 7 package, but now it’s available on its own, and at a limited-time special price.

If you’re interested in going deep and wide with all of the Season 7 classes (and they are wonderful!) the full Season 7 package is also available for a limited time at a really generous discount. (Just scroll down the shop page a bit to find it.)

I had a fantastic experience making this masterclass—there’s really nothing else like it—and I love hearing from people who have enjoyed it.

⭐ The links I’m sharing here are affiliate links, so if you complete any purchase through them you’re also supporting me and my work!

New Matryoshkats Kit is here!

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Cats, listen up! Our popular Matryoshkats pattern is now a Matryosh-kit! The deluxe kit makes TWO SETS of Matryoshkats, one in warm pinks and purples and one in cool blues and greens. đŸ©·đŸ’™

The seamless pattern is worked in the round on double-pointed needles in a delightfully simple way: each cat half is an un-stuffed ovoid shape that you’ll partially invert to make a hollow cup. You’ll pick up a small number of stitches to work the ears and tail.

The kit includes the pattern, a bit of polyester stuffing (for the innermost cat), and two arrays of wool yarn (Cascade 220, a favorite in Mochimochi Land). Just add size 5 needles and a tapestry needle!

The Matryoshkats Kit comes packaged in a 6-inch square kraft box, purfect for gifting or knitting on the go. 💝đŸ˜ș

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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!

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