Now that I have more Mochimochi Land patterns than I know what to do with I've been a little overwhelmed at the prospect of knitting everything I want to knit. However, Christmas provided the perfect opportunity to jump right in and add to me existing Mochimochi Land work which already includes her bat, sleepy snake and mischievous mouse, oscillating owlets, and the as yet unfinished sausage dogs.
I think the very first Mochimochi Land pattern I ever saw was Anna's Woodin pattern on Knitty.com. As soon as I saw the Woodins I thought of my sister. Sofia learned a song in pre-school called "Little Bunny Foo Foo" that she used to terrorize us with on car rides by singing over and over. And for some reason I thought of Sofia and that song and knew I had to make them for her. But things didn't quite go the way planned. I meant to make the log that is part of the Woodin pattern, but I started to make it from the yarn left over from the owlets, but half way through I ran out of brown. The LBYS didn't have any more skeins of the right color so I had to switch to grass so that I could give Sofia her present on Christmas while I waited until the right brown arrived in the mail (but the LBYS was nice enough to give me free shipping).
I've also been hanging on to the snowman pattern since last year so I decided to make stocking stuffers for each of my family members with a different color scarf for each person. For Todd I also made an adorable little lion and since Esteban asked just in the nick of time I made him plucky mushrooms and a tiny gator.
Aren't they all adorable?
As a post holiday project I also started a tiny grouchy couch for Todd which ought to round out my first batch of knitting from Knitting Mochimochi nicely. And I have a request for a confused moose that will be up next.....soooo much knitting and so little time!
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