Update: Thank you to Natalie at the CRAFT blog for posting about my new patterns!
Cold winter weather got you down? Beat the seasonal-affective-disorder blues with a cute new cross-stitch pattern, now available in the shop!
The pattern is written as a chart with symbols indicating colors. A full list of supplies needed and tips for beginners are included.
Buy the PDF pattern for $5 right here!
Yes, the much-anticipated patterns for Tiny Things are finally in the Mochimochi Shop!
This first collection includes patterns for a Tiny Elephant, Tiny Corn, Tiny Violin, and Tiny Toothpaste. Got some sock yarn scraps lying around from former projects? You don’t need much to make these guys! Or, if you’re not so miniature-inclined, these patterns will work with heavier-weight yarn too.
Techniques include knitting in the round on double-pointed needles, I-cord, picking up stitches, and simple color knitting.
Buy the PDF collection of patterns for $5 here!
Remember these guys?
A pattern collection of the four of them will be soon be available in the Mochimochi Shop. Look for them next week!
I hope everyone’s new year is off to a great start! Because this is as good a time as any to be self-reflective, I thought I’d share some thoughts on the new year for Mochimochi Land.
I don’t have any specific resolutions for Mochimochi Land, but I plan to make it an exciting year in toys! The biggest anticipation for me is my book coming out in June. Argh still six more months away! I put a lot of 2009 into working on it (and so did my awesome testers), so I hope people will enjoy it and treasure it and sleep with their arms around it. Or just enjoy it.
Of course I have plans for lots of new patterns to add to the Mochimochi Shop this year, FIVE of which I am simultaneously working on right now. (This month will see the first Tiny Things collection and a new cross-stitch pattern!) In addition to continuing to always improve at designing knitted toys, I’m hoping to get better at designing in two dimensions and convert more people to cross-stitch.
I’m planning to keep up the weekly Tiny Series for a while, but I probably can’t do it indefinitely. Or maybe I can. We’ll see!
There are a few other big projects that I’m working on that need to stay under wraps for now. Don’t you hate that? I know, I shouldn’t have said anything. Just forget that I’m working on top-secret huge exciting projects.
Oh, and John and I are putting together plans for a site redesign! I can’t say when it will be done, but our plan is to create a pretty new website that’s easy to use and has more features.
I hope you will all continue to read my blog and leave comments in 2010 if I promise to keep blogging. Let’s make it another toy-rific year together! (Sorry, but this awful pun is here to stay for another decade.)
There is now a listing for my book on Amazon! It’s not coming out until June, but for those who just CANNOT wait, you can apparently pre-order the book six months in advance.
I’ve seen the close-to-final layouts for the whole book, and I just love how it’s turning out. (Wish I didn’t have six more months to wait!)
Just a reminder that I’ll be at Knitty City in NYC tonight (12/10) as part of their “young designers” series of talks. I’m planning to bring some little knitted friends with me and I’ll also share some sneak previews of my book. It’s a free event, so please come out if you’re in the area!
It was a great opening at gallery hanahou last Thursday for “Luv-able & Hug-able!”
There were so many cute plushes there! I took home this “Snowflake” guy on the left, by Eerika Valkonen…
And the little bitty bearded one at the top right here, made by Yuriko Sera:
Keighty Crochet was also there, and so was Katie Park—we talked knitted toy design, which is something I don’t get to do as often as I would like.
Check out more photos from the opening at the gallery’s Flickr page. And all of the plushes are now available online!
Here is the obligatory photo of me posing next to my factories.
I’m already starting to think about what I’ll make for next year’s show…
This week’s Tiny Thing came early, and it’s available as a pattern! What’s more, that pattern is FREE with any purchase from the Mochimochi Shop!
These little guys are handy holiday helpers! Whip each up in less than an hour, then use them as present toppers, stocking stuffers, holiday jewelry, or ornaments.
Just purchase anything in the Mochimochi Shop, and a link to download the PDF pattern will be sent to you via email within 24 hours of your purchase.