Throw the tiniest disco party ever with the newest patterns in the Mochimochi Shop!
I’ve been on a little bit of a tiny human kick lately, so it only made sense to put together some of my favorites in a Tiny People set! These little guys knit up super fast with fingering-weight yarn and size 1 needles, or use any kind of scrap yarn to make them—you only need a little bit!
The patterns are available as a PDF download for $6 in the Mochimochi Shop.
Remember this guy?
A new pattern collection including him and three other tiny people is coming to the Mochimochi Shop soon! Stay tuned…
Thank you, everyone, for the sweet birthday wishes! And a special thank you to the Common Cod Fiber Guild for making it a truly awesome birthday!
Tiny Cupcake mod by Victoria Bell
Hey look at that, today’s both my birthday and also Friday the 13th! To celebrate my favorite kind of birthday (the Friday the 13th kind), I thought I’d spread the happy with a one-day discount.
Enter THIRTEEN at checkout today and get 13% off your entire order from the Mochimochi Shop. This discount is good for today only!
I’m spending my birthday in Boston, where I’ll be giving a presentation this evening at the Common Cod Fiber Guild (please join us if you’re in the area!), and then next week I’ll be taking a trip to Maine to see family. I can’t wait!
Because I’m on vacation for the next week, all physical products ordered from the shop will ship on July 23rd. (PDF patterns will arrive via email as usual.)
If you’re new to tiny knitting and live in the NYC area, I have a class coming up in September just for you!
On September 23 I’ll be teaching a Tiny Zombie knitting class at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio in Manhattan. We’ll cover all of my tips and tricks for knitting really tiny toys, and you’ll take home a finished Tiny Zombie that you made in class!
See the Lion Brand Yarn Studio website for all the info and how to sign up.
I haven’t been teaching many classes lately—my time is largely taken up with designing these days—so this is a rare opportunity to see exactly how I knit tiny mochis and get started doing it yourself. I’ll also bring other samples from my new book Super-Scary Mochimochi for a meet and greet, so it’s going to be a lot of fun!
I’m honored to have some of my recent artwork featured in The Character Compendium, a new book published by Pictoplasma. Just look how beautiful this thing is!
It’s packed full of images from 200 artists who create the most original characters you’ve ever seen. So much cuteness, weirdness, and inspiration! Here’s a look at my pages:
The spherical guys are from my 2011 show “Mochimochi Worlds,” which was part of the annual Pictoplasma Festival in Berlin. And the colorful piece in the lower left was an installation hung at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio in 2011.
I am so in love with the other work in this book, which all way outshines my own contribution, in my opinion. A huge thank-you to the awesome people at Pictoplasma for including me!
I’m super-excited to announce a new pattern in the Mochimochi Shop!
Lucky Stars have been in the works for a really long time. Back when I was first designing knitted toys, about five years ago, a star was one of my first ideas. But it took many failed attempts (and then a couple years in between tries, when I gave up on the idea for a while), before I figured out how to knit them the way that I pictured them in my head. It seems so simple now, but sometimes the simplest designs are the most difficult to work out!
The pattern comes in two sizes—a 2-1/2″-tall little Lucky Star that can slip into your pocket and a 5″-tall big Lucky Star that you can cuddly up with—and both can be knitted up in a matter of hours.
Techniques include knitting in the round on double-pointed needles (or magic loop with a circular needle) and picking up stitches.
The PDF pattern is now available as a download for $5 in the Mochimochi Shop!
Look what has a cover design!
This is my next book of knitted toy patterns, due to be released on September 18th! I’ll have some previews and more info this summer as the release date nears, but for now I can say that it’s packed with weird, silly, colorful creatures that are guaranteed not to scare you at all really.
The cover photo was shot by my good friend Brandi Simons, and the cool lab location was thanks to Robert Sheaff at the University of Tulsa. (I was psyched that liquid nitrogen was on hand!)
You can pre-order Super-Scary Mochimochi from Amazon and Barnes & Noble right now, or you can get it from your local yarn store in the US in September. (The UK release date is October 7th.) I’ll also have signed copies available in the Mochimochi Shop (with worldwide shipping) once it’s released.
Hurry up, September!
Update: This promotion has now ended. The new kits will be coming to the Mochimochi shop this fall!
Today (May 31) is your last chance to get a free mystery preview kit from the Mochimochi Shop! All orders of 2 or more kits and/or books today will come with one of these kits.
Order 4 kits and/or books and get two different mystery preview kits; order 6 and you get all 3!
Like all of the Tiny Mochi kits, each contains a pattern for a mini knitted toy and enough fingering-weight yarn and stuffing to make multiples. The mystery kits will debut in the Mochimochi Shop this fall, so this is your last chance to get them for a while.
I’ve been psyched at the enthusiastic response to this special promotion so far. I guess everyone loves a surprise!