Congratulations to Anne!
Sometimes I get jealous of crocheters because it’s seemingly so much easier to make dolls and characters and food and all sorts of really interesting creations out of crochet than it is out of knitting. Maybe that’s not really true and I’m just not creative enough to translate fanciful designs or ideas into knitting the way some people are with crochet.
Anna Hrachovec is one of those knitters who can turn wacky ideas into great knitting projects, and she has a whole series of books filled with what she calls mochimochi and what others might call knit amigurumi, to borrow a term from crochet.
Her 2013 book, Huge & Huggable Mochimochi
, is full of 20 larger-than-life projects for fun knit items like the giant piece of birthday cake on the cover, big birdies, a giant hamburger with all the fixin’s, even a toy monster truck. (Huge in this case is still not all that huge; most of the projects are two feet long/tall or smaller.)
There’s a sweet pair of teddy bears, a capybara caravan, a stuffed submarine. Knit a giant pencil, or a huge toothbrush and tube of toothpaste.
No, I don’t know why you’d want to, either, but they’re still pretty darn cute, I have to say.
And as a writer, I may actually need a novelty knit pencil.
If you’d like a chance to win a copy of this book, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Sunday, May 3. If you could knit any novelty shape, what would you knit? I’d kind of love a plush sewing machine.
Thanks for visiting, commenting and sharing, and good luck!
a dog
I think I would knit a garden full of flowers with faces! I am starting to knit more. I am a crocheter first 🙂
Thank you for this giveaway.
Deb
Oh, my DH definitely needs a monster truck!
from windy VT,
the Vermonster
Oh, the possibilities! I’d love a knit book toy – like Pride and Prejudice.
A giant Cupcake!
A bottle of wine
A giant knitting needle–or two.
What a great giveaway! I would probably knit FOOD and/or trucks. Thanks for the chance to win!!
I love knitting odd things! It’s so much fun! I really want to make a cupcake and some parakeets next!
If I can’t get a sewing machine, how about a hot air balloon?
I would make a princess doll for my grandaughter.
A “oversized” plush chair, big enough my cat could sleep in it!
An ice cream cone! 🙂
I would love to knit characters and elements from the Doctor Who universe such as the Tardis, the Daleks and an adipose 🙂
I’d knit a hotdog in a bun!!
I would love to make a doll for my grand daughter.
I’d make a life-sized unicorn!!! I love fantasy creatures.
Wouldn’t some of these items be great to give to a day care center for fun or for teaching tools (like the pencil or toothpaste and toothbrush)? So much stockinette perfect for TV knitting and maybe stash busting?
I would love a chane to win the book I don’t know what I would knit first love the big cupcake Louise
I’d knit a fully furnished doll’s house!
A cute vintage trailer 🙂
I’d love to knit a lamp!