No, I'm not giving away dandelions. They're all that's holding my lawn together. Anna, the designer of the awesome toys over at Mochimochi Land, has a free knitted dandelion pattern on her blog.
Anna also sells patterns for larger toys. If you've never seen Anna's designs before, they're all very cute, although some are also slightly sinister. Stackable Cats and Pile-able Pups? Cute. Sleepy Snake? Also cute. Sleepy Snake eating Mischievous Mouse (one toy fits inside the other)? Just a tad sinister, but I like that! In fact, Sleepy Snake and Mischievous Mouse show off another great feature of many Mochimochi Land toys; they are interactive. You can push some inside each other, flip one or two inside out to reveal something else, and others are designed for stacking. When you're knitting toys for a child, it's always important to consider how much fun they'll be to play with (as a child I had some on which the arms and legs were stitched to the body; needless to say they were my least favourite knitted toys because they just weren't fun). Mochimochi Land's patterns are definitely fun to play with.
Thursday July 23, 2009 
