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.)

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!

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!

I’m excited to announce two new kits in the shop: Sushi and Unicorn!

These tiny mochi kits give you the pattern and just the right amount of yarn and stuffing to knit multiple itty-bitty mochis! They’re perfect for grab-and-go vacation knitting, and they make super gifts for your fellow knitters. All you need are a set of size 1 DPNs and a tapestry needle to get started.

Nine different kits are now available for $12 each in the Mochimochi Shop!

**Nab a Mystery Preview Kit**

Through May 31, purchase 2 or more kits and/or books from the Mochimochi Shop and get a free mystery preview kit!

These kits are new Tiny Mochi designs not available anywhere else! (They’ll be added to the Mochimochi Shop this fall.) A little hint: all three are human-type mochis, not animals or objects.