Anna Hrachovec from Mochimochi Land
Anna Hrachovec is a Brooklyn-based designer and artist who combines a wacky sense of humor, unusual design elements, and Japanese kawaii aesthetics to create knitted creatures that all ages can get excited about. After growing bored with her hobby of knitting scarves and hats a few years back, since 2007 she has been making squishy bathtubs, stacking cats, and other seriously silly toys out of yarn and needles.
Anna divides her time between designing patterns that she shares with an enthusiastic crafting community and creating more complex knitted pieces for exhibition. Her character-based soft sculptures and installations have been exhibited in galleries around the US and in Europe and Asia.
She has written two books of patterns for knitted toys, Knitting Mochimochi and Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi.
Links:
Annahrachovec.com
Mochimochiland.com
Facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mochimochi-Land/118551290274
Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/people/Mochimochiland
Patterns on AllFreeKnitting
Baby Gators
Candy Corn Pattern
Grass
Hearts
Snails and Slugs
Tiny Baby Bunnies
Tiny Perching Pigeons
Toilet Paper
Weeds
Woodins
