Category: Mochimochi Land News

Tiny Kits Now in the Mochimochi Shop!

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UPDATE 5/20: Thank you to CRAFT for blogging about the kits!

I’m happy to announce that my Tiny Kits are now available in the Mochimochi Shop!

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The kits come with a pattern (obviously) and enough fingering-weight yarn (Cascade Heritage, which is a wool/nylon blend) and stuffing to make multiple Tinys. Make them into earrings, gift toppers, or carry them around in your pocket for good luck!

Available kits are for Tiny Zombie, Bee, Panda, Burger, and Frog.

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You’ll just need a set of size 1 DPNs, a tapestry needle, and a couple of hours to make the little guys.

p.s. These patterns won’t be in Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi, in case you were wondering!

Toy Design Class at Brooklyn General June 26

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With encouragement from nice knitters on Twitter, I’ve decided to offer a class on designing your own knitted toy! Wouldn’t that be fun?

If you’re experienced knitter who loves toys in the NYC area, I hope you’ll sign up for my 3-D Toy Design Class at Brooklyn General on June 26th. (Experienced just means that you have an understanding of basic construction and experience with knitting in the round.) You’ll bring a sketch of an animal, doll, or any other kind of character, and we’ll make a plan for how you can turn it into a knitted toy design.

I think it will be a blast seeing what people come up with and figuring out the best design together. A little simple math and geometry will be involved, plus a lot of tricks and techniques that I’ve picked up in 4 years of toy designing.

Date/Time: Sunday, June 26, 1-4 pm

Price: $75

Level: Experienced (an understanding of basic construction and experience with knitting in the round)

Supplies needed:
– One or two sketches of toys you’d like to design
– Worsted-weight yarn in two colors and size 5 double-pointed needles

Sign up on the Brooklyn General website, or call 718-237-7753.

Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi Coming in August!

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I’m super excited to finally make a big official announcement about my next book!

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Published by Potter Craft, Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi will present more than 40 patterns for mini knits! I chose some of my favorites from the first year of the my Tiny Things series, and there will be a few never-before-seen projects in it too.

I love how this book was born out of a fun challenge that I started on this blog with much input from all of you awesome readers and commenters.

It’s coming out in August, so we still have a few months to wait, but the book can now be preordered on Amazon and the Barnes & Noble website. Once it’s released, you’ll also be able to find it in many local yarn stores, and I’ll also have signed copies available in the Mochimochi Shop. I’ll be sharing some sneak peeks leading up to the August 16th publication date, so please stay tuned for ridiculous amounts of Tiny!

Tiny Things Collection 5 is Here!

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Get out your kazoos! A new Tiny Things pattern collection has just joined the Mochimochi Shop!

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These are some of my recent favorites from the ongoing Tiny series, and your comments and emails tell me that many of you want to knit them too!

You need fingering-weight sock yarn, size one needles, and just a few minutes to whip these guys up. As always, you can scale up the patterns just by using bigger yarn and needles.

This PDF pattern collection is available for $5 right here!

Tessellation Dinos Pattern is Here!

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Just unleashed these terrible lizards in the Mochimochi Shop!

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The cross-stitch pattern comes with both a symbol chart and a color chart for easy reading. Good for geeks of all ages!

The PDF pattern is now available as a $5 download right here.

If you’re intrigued but have never cross-stitched before, check out my new beginner’s tutorial on the How To page.

Mochimochi Worlds at Pictoplasma Festival

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Updates:

Photos from the show
More photos of the planets

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This big round bear, along with the giant ball of yarn and the snowman that I’ve recently posted, is going with me to Berlin next month to be a part of the Pictoplasma Festival, an annual celebration of character art!

My pieces will be on exhibit from April 6th through the 10th in a new installation called “Mochimochi Worlds,” held at Smallspace gallery. If you’re in the area, please join us for the opening at 7 pm on April 6th!

The show will be part of the Pictoplasma Character Walk that is open to the public.

I’m so excited to be involved in the festival, and I’ve been having a blast working on this new show—it will be made up of nine randomly-themed planets and other celestial bodies. Knitters who stop by the gallery will be able to pick up patterns to make some of the alien life forms they see.

I can’t wait to go to Berlin for the first time and see what other character madness is happening at the festival!

Thank you to Lion Brand for providing Hometown USA and Wool-Ease Thick & Quick yarn for the big planet bodies.

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