Mochimochiland

Introducing the 2025 Mochimochi Land holiday pattern: Drool Runnings! 🐶❄️

For now, this pattern is available as a kit only—you get the pattern and all the yarn, stuffing, and pipe cleaners you need to knit a sled and two pups, Santa hats and all.

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Try not to lose your head this Halloween… or do and get an upgrade 🎃🎃

Happy Fourth! 💥🌭

WHO WILL WIN??

Happy Local Yarn Store Day! 🧶💕

Say thank you today to the people who bring you the good stuff 🧶🧶🧶

Which have you shopped most recently? For me it’s Yarnify, Cog Cycles & Yarns, and The Dropped Stitch here in Chicago 🧶💕

Lambie Cake and Duck-a-Luck are friends
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The biggest thanks to Kristine for being the best imaginable help with this event (including all the prep that goes into it), and the biggest thanks to the wonderful people who work so hard to make @yarncon special every year!

YarnCon this year was the best ever, and that’s saying a lot because it was already the best thing of its kind 🧶✨

Thank you to everybody who came out, everybody who checked out POOCHIPOOCHI Land, everybody who said hi, and everybody who bought stuff from me!

Cat-tastic! 🐱

I’ll have kits and books for sale, and there will be so many amazing yarns to ooh and ahh over—you simply must come if you’re anywhere near Chicago.

YarnCon
April 5-6, 2025
Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday 10am-3pm

Plumbers Union Hall
1371 W. Randolph Blvd.
Chicago, IL
See you there!

Shrimpy is complete! Look how much fun we’re already having together 😍

You can meet Shrimpy this weekend (April 5+6) at YarnCon, where he’ll be parading all the dogs from SHORT DOG, LONG DOG around in the newest iteration of Mochimochi Land.

😂 you’re too sweet

Five years ago!

You can meet Shrimpy the very very long dog at YarnCon April 5+6!
This is the biggest thing I’ve knit in a long time, and I’m doing it for the best reason: because I feel like it!
Shrimpy was inspired by the dogs in my new picture book, SHORT DOG, LONG DOG, in stores now! 🐶 💕

Haha, nice butt! 😍

Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️

Short Dog, Long Dog: A Book of Opposites Amazon.com: Short Dog, Long Dog: A Book of Opposites: 9781250907202: Hrachovec, Anna: Books

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Regarding books, these dogs say: Don’t chew ‘em, review ‘em!

If you’ve read SHORT DOG, LONG DOG and enjoyed it, I’d appreciate it very very much if you left a review of the book on its Amazon page. (You don't need to have bought it there to review.)

Ack the cuteness!

I dare you to knit tiny dinosaurs (or pterosaurs) and NOT immediately start playing with them. It’s an irresistible human urge!

These soaring cuties are my newest design for Knitrino, where the Ptara the Ptiny Pterodactyl pattern is now available in their portable, interactive format.

Pattern link:

knitrino.app.link/ptero

You probably won’t be able to knit just one Ptara, and you definitely won’t be able to resist making them soar majestically through the air while you screech your best pterodactyl sounds. (SCREECH SCREECH SREEEEEEECH means “I love you!”)

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💕

Love is in the air for two romantic pterodactyls 💕

This scene is inspired by my newest tiny dinosaur pattern, Ptara the Ptiny Pterodactyl—now available in the Knitrino app.

If you haven’t been to this cozy bike-slash-yarn-shop before, you’re in for a treat. All ages are welcome. Hope you see you there on the 23rd!

We’ll have a book reading at 11am, then a drop-in-and-knit-dogs session after that using my new free pattern. Bring supplies to knit a short or a long dog, or buy them there!

Chicago friends! Please join me for a Short Dog, Long Dog release party at Cog Cucles and Yarns on Sunday February 23rd! 🐶💕🚲

I want to see pictures of real-life dogs with copies of Short Dog, Long Dog! But I feel like this content should be rewarded. What do dog parents/owners/guardians want for their adorable dog-and-book pics??

🐶 Fun event alert! 🐶

If you’re in the Chicago area, please join me for a Short Dog, Long Dog release party at Cog Cycles and Yarns on Sunday February 23rd!

We’ll have a book reading at 11am, then a drop-in-and-knit-dogs session after that. Hope you see you there!

And for the knitters, there’s a free pattern to make the titular short and long dog. Available on Ravelry now!

I absolutely loved putting this book together and I hope you’ll love reading it and sharing it. It’s for kids, dog lovers, word nerds, and knitters alike! 🐶💕

Because dogs come in all shapes, sizes, barks, and personalities—from huge and tiny to itchy on the head and scratchy on the hiney—they’re the perfect subjects to explore the world of antonyms.