Coming Soon: Helping Japan Auction

We at CraftGossip are saddened and humbled by the devastation in Japan and wish to help the people who have suffered such tremendous loss. We are pleased to announce that we are holding an auction to help raise money for the people of Japan. The editors at CraftGossip are donating their art, books, supplies, etc., for this worthy cause.

Our auctions will run from April 1st through April 7th. During this 7 day auction, you can bid on any items you see listed by leaving your bid in a comment. At the conclusion of the auction, the highest bid for any item (or group of items) will be the winner of that item (or group of items). Each CraftGossip editor will contact winners and ship the item (or items) to the highest bidder after payment is received.

If the winning bidder doesn’t make the payment within 3 days, we will select the next highest bidder. The highest bidder will send the payment to [email protected] via PayPal. (If you are overseas, postage will be added to your winning bid.)

All auction items for helping Japan will be listed here.

ALL the monies we collect during this auction will go to the Salvation Army to help the people of Japan. It is a worthy cause, so please bid generously!

For years now Berroco has been releasing a tiny set of Christmas ornament knitting patterns, often modeled on human-sized clothes, called Minutia. The ones for this year haven’t come out yet, but somehow I missed last year’s so I wanted to share them, as well as a fun little twist they offered.

The general 2025 Minutia patterns include a circular yoke sweater, a two-color stocking and a ribbed earflap hat. They’re super cute and perfect for using little (or should I say minute?) amounts of yarn left over from other projects. Make them in Christmas colors or whatever you have on hand. Even if you don’t have exactly the same yarn weight, you can still make these cute additions to your holiday decor.

But what really caught my eye while I was on the Berocco site was the Team Colors Minutia, which are actually different patterns so I’m not even sure when they were released, but they are definitely worth talking about.

These patterns include a little raglan sweater with stripes and a stocking cap with contrasting pom pom.

They call for sport weight yarn, but again you could use sock or DK if that’s what you have in the right colors. And here the right colors are important because you’re stitching your team colors.

Or anyone else’s team colors.

I immediately thought that this would be an amazing holiday gift for someone who you never know what to get but who also happens to like sports. Or has gone to a university that has colors.

Another option would be to leave off the stripes and add a number in duplicate stitch if you or the person you’re knitting for has a favorite player. Or stitch a letter or a tiny version of the team logo on the front. There are lots of options!

If you make these, I’d love to hear what you did with them!

[Photo: Berroco]

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