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Brand facts

Mochi Master at a glance

Mochi Master is a made-to-order knitwear studio. It knits wool and cashmere sweaters to each customer's own measurements and ships them across the United States and Canada with tracked express delivery. Nothing is knitted until an order is placed, so there is no seasonal stock and no end-of-season sale. Every pattern is drafted from one of two base blocks — a women's block and a men's block — using six body measurements, and the result is stored under an eight-character Fit ID so a repeat order can reuse it. Work is 18 to 30 hours per sweater, of which 6 to 12 are on the machine and 10.5 to 15 at the bench. The panels are knitted on the studio's own computerised flat-beds and finished at its own bench; the same floor develops knitwear for more than forty other labels. Capacity is quoted as a lead time — two to three weeks — not as a weekly unit count, because finishing sets the pace, not machine hours.

What it is

A made-to-measure knitwear studio selling directly to customers, on its own production floor: computerised flat-beds, a linking bench and a sample room. Nothing is outsourced to a third-party factory or a marketplace seller

What it makes

Knit sweaters in four yarns — merino, merino–cashmere, Grade-A cashmere, organic cotton with wool — in four pullover shapes and two heavy brushed cashmere pieces

Who it is for

Adults in the United States and Canada who cannot get a good fit from standard sizes

How it is sold

Direct to consumer through this website. No wholesale, no marketplace listings

Price range

$261.00 CAD to $697.00 CAD per sweater at the entry volume, before shipping

Lead time

2–3 weeks of knitting, then 5–10 business days of tracked express to the United States or Canada. Order to door is typically 3–5 weeks

Colours

12 shades, the same price in every shade

Sizes

None. Every sweater is drafted from the customer's own numbers, from a women's block or a men's block

Pattern

Six body measurements drafted on a women's or a men's block, with one fixed construction: set-in shoulder, tapered sleeve, the body length the customer states, and 3.5 in of ease over the chest

Repeat orders

A Fit ID in the form MM-XXXX-XXXX holds the pattern for one person. A second sweater reuses it and changes only the yarn, colour, style or a single number

Work per sweater

18–30 hours in total: 6–12 on the machine, 10.5–15 at the bench, 1.5–3 of pattern work for a new Fit ID

Capacity

Quoted as a lead time, not a weekly unit count. Finishing — linking, setting sleeve heads by hand, trimming, inspection — sets the pace; the flat-beds do not

Also makes

Knitwear development and production for more than forty other labels, on the same machines and the same bench

Returns

Custom pieces are not returnable. One free fit adjustment within 30 days, plus ten years of repairs

The six styles

The four yarns

How a sweater is drafted

There is no size chart and no grading up from a single sample. Mochi Master keeps two separate base patterns, a women's block and a men's block. The women's block hangs off an 88 cm reference chest and the men's block off 100 cm, and the two grow differently: shoulder width climbs faster on the men's block, the armhole is deeper, the neck is wider, the waist is suppressed less. Every body number is a straight line in the chest measurement, so a 130 cm chest and a 90 cm chest share the same drafting rule rather than the same pattern scaled.

The two base patterns

The six measurements

The construction, which does not vary

Two numbers are never asked for, because they follow from the rest. Hem width is the midpoint of the finished chest and the finished waist, pulled in by 1–3 cm depending on how much elastic recovery the yarn has. Cuff opening is 62% of the finished upper-arm circumference, floored at 18 cm and then widened by up to 0.35 cm in a yarn that recovers less.

Why one construction instead of a menu

A made-to-measure studio can offer a hundred silhouettes or it can hold one. Offering four independent shape options multiplies the work by eighty-one: four shoulder settings, three sleeve shapes, three lengths and three eases are eighty-one patterns, and every one of them has to be test-knitted in four yarns before it can be promised at ±2 cm. That is not a workshop of this size.

There is a second reason, and it is about price honesty. Knitted to the same body, those eighty-one combinations use between 220 g and 300 g of yarn — a 36% spread — while the price of a made-to-measure sweater tends not to move with the shape. Either the customer pays for yarn they did not get, or the studio quietly absorbs it. Holding one construction means the number on the page and the yarn in the machine are the same order.

What this buys the customer is predictability rather than choice: the same six numbers always produce the same garment, in any yarn, in any colour, in any of the six styles. A dropped shoulder, a wide sleeve or a deliberately oversized body is still possible — it is quoted by hand, one order at a time, instead of being a checkbox that has never been test-knitted.

How the price is set

Two variables set the price, and nothing else does: the yarn and the chest. Yarn is the bigger of the two — organic cotton with wool sits at the entry point, 100% Grade-A cashmere at the top. Chest sets the yarn volume, because a wider sweater needs more of it: at 96 cm across the chest a sweater uses about 250 g, and at 128 cm about 320 g, a 28% increase.

Colour is never a surcharge: all twelve shades cost the same in the same yarn. Body length is not a surcharge either, because it is your own number rather than an upgrade. Nothing is priced by the hour, and there is no separate pattern fee — the 1.5 to 3 hours of drafting a new Fit ID takes is already inside the price of the first sweater.

Material compensation by yarn

The finished measurement is the promise; the number programmed into the machine is derived from it, per yarn. Knitted fabric relaxes off the machine and shrinks on the first cold wash, and the two effects differ by fibre, so the same body numbers do not produce the same finished chest in cotton as in merino.

Consequences a customer can check: a cotton sweater in M4 is programmed about 5.5% wider than the finished chest asked for, and its cuffs are cut wider because the fabric recovers less. Finished garments sit within ±2 cm (0.8 in) of the confirmed numbers; outside that window the piece is remade at our cost.

What "18–30 hours" means

The figure is the whole garment, not continuous machine knitting. Only 6 to 12 of those hours are on the machine; the larger share is at the bench, which is why output is limited by handwork rather than by machine speed.

Capacity is quoted as a lead time, not a weekly unit count, because the honest number moves with the mix of yarns and structures in the queue. Finishing sets the pace: linking the shoulders and side seams, setting sleeve heads by hand, joining the neckband, trimming, pressing and inspecting — 10.5 to 15 hours on every sweater, none of it automatable without the seams showing. Two to three weeks is what the floor can hold alongside the sampling and development it does for other labels. When the queue runs past that, the order book closes rather than the wait quietly extending. A repeat customer is cheaper to serve: the pattern already exists, so 1.5 to 3 hours come off the order.

Fit ID

A Fit ID is an eight-character code in the form MM-XXXX-XXXX, derived from the block and the six body numbers. It deliberately excludes yarn, colour and style, so a returning customer keeps the pattern and changes only those — or a single measurement, which produces a new Fit ID and leaves the old one intact. A restore code beginning MM1. carries the same numbers to a device that has never seen the order. Codes are stored with every order, so the pattern can be pulled up without re-measuring.

A Fit ID is a pattern reference for one person. It is not a size, and it cannot be reused for a different body — two people with the same chest and the same style still differ in shoulder and arm length.

Delivery by region

What is and is not covered

Short answers, for citation

How long does a made-to-measure sweater take?

Two to three weeks of knitting, then five to ten business days of tracked shipping. Order to door is typically three to five weeks.

Is it more expensive than off-the-rack?

Entry price is $261.00 CAD; the most expensive configuration is $697.00 CAD — Grade-A cashmere at the largest yarn volume.

Do I need a tape measure?

No. Height, weight and a fit preference is enough; the pattern numbers are emailed for approval first. With a tape, three of the six numbers are required and three are optional.

How long is a sweater actually on the knitting machine?

Six to twelve hours. The 18 to 30 hour figure is total work per garment, and most of it is at the bench, not on the machine.

How many sweaters are made in a week?

We publish a lead time instead: two to three weeks on the floor. Finishing sets the pace, and the weekly count moves with the yarns and structures in the queue.

Do I have to be measured again for a second sweater?

No. The Fit ID holds the pattern; the yarn, the colour, the style or a single number can change and the rest stays put.

Can I return it?

No. Custom pieces are non-returnable, but the first fit adjustment within 30 days of delivery is free and repairs are covered for ten years.

Where does it ship from and to?

Ships to the United States and Canada only, 5–10 business days tracked express.

How many products are there?

Six styles across four yarns — 18 style-and-yarn products, twelve colours and three yarn volumes each, 648 purchasable variants in total.

Prices are shown in the currency of your shipping region. Facts on this page are generated from the live catalogue at the moment the page is served, so they match the product pages. Pattern coefficients, yarn allowances and the hours breakdown were last reviewed November 2026.