He’s a sucker for leggy ladies!
Elizabeth was the first to leave a comment suggesting that I knit a tiny octopus about a year ago, so she gets a free pattern!
Category: Tiny Things
Tiny Toaster
This passive-aggressive appliance holds the toast in just a few seconds too long when he’s in a bad mood.
This was probably the hardest tiny thing to design yet! I had tried and failed before a while back, but after seeing it mentioned in the comments several times recently I just had to give it another go.
The very first person to suggest that I make a Tiny Toaster in the comments was Danielle, way back in July of last year. That means a free pattern for Danielle!
Tiny Taco
He could really go for some Chinese food right now.
Sursi was the first to leave a comment suggesting that I knit a tiny taco last year in July, so she gets a free pattern!
Tiny Cowboy
He’s very exclusive with his friendships. He’ll only hang out with you if you’re lasso-able.
Tiny Penguin
Your supportive comments on my recent post about the Tiny series (along with my own hard-to-kick Tiny addiction) have convinced me to keep going with it!
I think many of us could use some cool imagery these days, so how about a Tiny Penguin?
He’s still waiting to have a documentary made about him. Because every penguin should have 15 minutes of documentary fame.
Olivia was the first person to leave a comment suggesting that I knit a Tiny Penguin way back in July of last year, so she gets a free pattern! I was also inspired by the comment left by Fiera Firenze on the Plush You blog (where you can still leave a comment to win a copy of Knitting Mochimochi)—she suggested that I put a tiny penguin on a tiny iceberg. How about a Tiny Glacier instead?
A Year of Tinys
As I mentioned the other day in the post about my Tiny Sun, it has been a whole year since I began the “Tiny” series here on the Mochimochi Blog!
For those of you who weren’t with me a year ago, in July 2009 I was looking for a fun challenge for the month, and I decided to try knitting a new tiny toy every weekday and posting it here on my blog. I hesitantly started with a Tiny Brain, but then it was easy to continue with all the helpful suggestions that people gave me in the comments. When the month of July was over, I was still getting lots of super ideas, so I thought I’d continue the series with a new tiny knitted toy each week. I’ve surprised myself by keeping it up ever since then, without (as far as I can recall, at least) a single week missed!
I thought it would be fun to put together a visual with all of the Tinys that I’ve made over the past year. It’s a total of 70 teeny-tiny Mochimochis! Here they are in alphabetical order.
I’ve thought about stopping the series now that it’s been a year, but I would be a little sad to do so. There are just so many Tiny possibilities left in this world! I could also start on some other type of series, but nothing that I’ve come up with so far (like knitting giant things, for example) has quite gotten me excited enough. But if you’ve had your fill of tiny knitting and you have an idea for something totally different, I would love to hear it!
I’ve also been happy to get lots of inquiries about patterns for these tiny toys. I do plan to release another set of Tiny patterns sometime soon, so please keep an eye out for it! (I’m pretty certain that the Tiny Gnome and Tiny Frog will be two of the four patterns, but I’m still undecided about the other two…)
Tiny Sun
Yes, we know, everything revolves around him. But that doesn’t mean he has to act like it does!
I thought a Tiny Sun was appropriate today for a couple of reasons: first because we’re smack in the middle of a hot summer, and also because today marks almost exactly a year ago that I began the Tiny series, so it seemed fitting that this be the tiniest in scale thing yet! By my calculations, this guy is about 44 BILLION times tinier than the real sun.
The very first person to leave a comment suggesting that I knit a Tiny Sun (to go with the Tiny Earth I made) was Tango, almost a whole year ago! Free pattern for her!
Happy 4th of July, everyone!
Tiny Bee
Update: It seems that Amy was the first to leave a comment suggesting that I knit a tiny bee. Thanks, Amy!
Here’s a tip: don’t call him “Honey”—bees hate that!
I tried figuring out who might have suggested that I make a Tiny Bee, but I’m having trouble finding anyone! If you think you suggested it, let me know!