I go to a knitting group at a local cafe once a week. The group has a wide variety of lovely folk from all sorts of backgrounds and ages.
A Japanese lady at the group, Naoko, has recently started making amigurumi toys to raise funds for victims of the recent earthquakes in Japan. The toys will be available to buy soon, but in the meantime you can see her blog here http://hopeforjapan-amigurumi.blogspot.com or come along to the Tea Tree on a Thursday night for updates.
I have always loved the Mochimochi land patterns, partly explaining why the bookshelves are covered in cute mini bats and mini pastel pigeons. The nephews have enjoyed the chicken and egg pattern (slightly modified to look like a dinosaur and egg) and I have plans for many more mochis, especially with christmas coming up.
So, imagine my proper child like excitement when I got an email a few mins ago telling me I had won the mochi mochi caption contest! Me, winning a contest! And such an awesome one too!
Here is the link to my winning caption, though all the credit for the artwork goes to mochimochi’s anna – now to pick my prize! Woo!
I love those wee amigurumi things but sometimes they are so small you wonder how they were made, with pixies using pins instead of knitting needles?
One of the best places to find easy to read knitting (not the usual crochet) patterns is Mochimochi land. Today, they had this free pattern for birdies, so i gave it a go during The Big Bang Theory and CSI.
I like him, hes cute. Seems odd alone though, so friends will be forthcoming. Then they can decorate the piano or the bookshelf…. who knows? Cute!!!
Made for a valentines present, but not for the other half! Who could it be for? :p
A dinky 3 inches high 
and made with tiny bits of snuggly dk wool. Took about 3 episodes of Peep Show to knit and stuff
Originally uploaded by squeejay
A koala made from a knitted toybox pattern knittedtoybox.blogspot.com/2008/11/koala-baby.html.
He worked out quite well, but one of the ears is an odd shape because of my casting on I think.
Took a few hours, a small bit of DK wool and an even tinier bit of contrasting colour wool for the ears.
The photo is from my mobile so not that great, I’ll get round to retaking all the pictures with a proper camera soon!
My first knitted toy/non clothing thing! The pattern is from Knitted toybox. I found it when I was looking for something to use up odd bits of wool – he’s so cute and wee! I managed to do it in a hour or two whilst watching tv so it was super quick and easy as well.
Prepare for a knitted toy invasion!
