Looking great!!!!

I've been away for a week now, so it was so fun to see how many nice tote's and tops that have been completed whilst I've been away =)

The gallery is now updated, but please e-mail me if I forgot to include your 'work'!!

Keep up the good work, and lets hope that summer will come soon, the weathet is freeeezing cold in Sweden today...brrrrr. Not to mention that the rain does nothing good for my curly hear. I'm talking frizzball =)

Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lovely gallery

have you see the wonderfull gallery ?
CONGRARULATION!!!!!!!! WE ARE THE BEST GIRLS GROUP!!!!
all is so cute
thanks to oslofia and nunnun
laurence

So sad...

I had to rip out the shirt last night. I realized it was just going to be too big and there was no way to work with what I had completed. So sad. But all in the name of perfection, right? And my fellow Hello Kitty 2 KAL-ers, you expect nothing less than perfection, right?

*sniff*

Have to drop out

I'm sorry everyone, I'm afraid that I have to drop out of the KAL with my tote bag half finished.

I have two charity projects going at the moment, a ton of work being done on my place and my health is feeling the crunch, I apologize for not being able to finish but some things have to give :(

I wish you all the best with the rest of the KAL, and again I'm sorry to everyone that I cannot finish.

hugs
Ro

Sue's crochet tote done

I'm glad to announce that my tote bag is done.

I'm pleased with it as it is my absolute FIRST crochet project. It doesn't look perfect, but I think it is cool. I used an acrylic yarn - Bernat Berella "4" because first project, you never know what might happen, eh? But it turned out well

So, Bernat Berella yarn, Hook J size and I didn't use 4 skeins at the same time since the yarn was thick enough.

I wasn't so sure about the flower I had 5 tries before understanding that the 1sc, 3dc, 1sc had to be in the same one sc.. I'm a beginner, after all so crocheting in the round isn't something I've done before.. but all in all - I've finally done it!

and here it is:

Thanks Oslofia for the lovely pattern!

Sunny's tote & top

I am so proud of myself for finishing these in less than two weeks. I knitted a HK bag with the first KAL and now crochet a second one but i still have no bags for myself. My girlfriend took away the first blue one and niece went for the neon green one =)

On my way!

Hello all! I just started my summer top today and I stopped right before doing the hearts. It's bedtime for me!


But it feels good to have something done. I am also sizing mine up for a seven year old, so as totally cute as the tie straps are, I might do thick strapes like Unni did. Any suggestions are welcome! Everyone's tops and bags look so nice!

Finished summer-top size 2 years!

Finally it's finished, so now I am ready for the next project!

Now the tote is done

Is there a deadline date?

Hello everyone!

I have to ask, is there a deadline to get our totes done? If there is I may have to drop out of the KAL :(

I'm drowning in projects right now, I have two charity drives going and I have several gifts I need to make and I don't know when I'm going to be able to finish my tote. I don't want to break any KAL rules by not finishing on time in case I might be able to try to participate in a future one, please would someone tell me if I need to drop out or if I can just wait a little and see if I can get to it?

Thanks (and sorry for not being a better Kal participant!),
Ro

Wow..

I'm so impressed by all the tops and totes that are POPPING up here...they all look GREAT =)

I've started my tote in blue. I'm done with the front side, and hopefully I'll be done with the back tonight. Anyways, Laurence had a great idea about making a gallery of our 'work'...so I'll see if I can make something fun out of all the stuff we've been making during the week.

Have a great week,
Oslofia

Wendys Tote is Done!

Here is the small tote I made for my baby sis.



I made it with one strand of Bernat Softee Chunky and an I hook. It's what I had on hand and it worked out beautifully. It is the perfect size for my 7 year old sister. I made the handles shorter than what the pattern asked for and it worked. :)

Thank you Oslofia for creating such a fun KAL!

-Wendy

finished tote!

I just finished the tote. This was the first time I crocheted something else than flowers and scarves(btw. last crocheted scarf was finished in 2000).
Check out my blog for a pic.

Summer top finished

Today I finished my summertop. I`ve knitted a longer edition of the top because my daughter wanted it this way. I got some yarn left and it became a hat suited to the summertop. The owner is satisfied, and so is mum the knitter.

I'm finished

Isn't it cute

Now I\m ready for the tote, and I've just bought purple yarn for it.

I knew it

Well, I don't know if you all want to hear about progress, but I think it is at least as entertaining as finished works. :o)
As I said; I knew it. I have not tried intarsia knitting often but I know I don't really like it. In this summer top there is both Fair Isle and Intarsia - and the Fair Isle border with the hearts went okay - but Kitty's head was awful, in my oppinion. I know I am a bit too "symmetrical" in my head, I prefer mu Opal socks to match as perfectly as possible and I hate it when pictures or shelves are hanging ever so slightly skewed...and I also know many knitters would have said my intarsia-Kitty was very fine - but I unraveled it and knit the front just like the back and now I am simply sewing the Hello Kitty face on the top instead. Part of my problem is the rather thin yarn - if I had been knitting intarsia in thicker yarn it would have been more even to look at but I disliked the uneven stitches.

I do not have pictures right now but it will become obvious when seeing the front; For the hearts border I have knitted one heart white and the rest pink; the white heart is intarsia and the pink hearts are fair isle and there is a very obvious difference (to me, anyway). *lol*

my hk tote is finished

you can see it on my hello kitty blog
http://www.hkcreativity.canalblog.com/
I crochete it with a smaller hook 3
I have some probleme for put my picture on hk summer kall blog
I"ll try next time
perhaps at the finish we can do a gallery with all our tote
bye bye
laurence

Look What I Can Do!!

Wow, I'm sooooo happy with this! Got it figured out (thanks Oslofia)... Ok, so my spacing is a little off, I was helping my son do his homework while trying to learn how to intarsia lol might have to tink it and re-start but I wanted to show you what I got done so far :) :) Yeaaaahh

Rettstrikk does not equal retstrikning *lol*

Thank God I got the revised pattern for the summertop! The pictures clearly showed me what I had been wondering about; The Norwegian pattern said "rettstrikk" and in Danish "retstrikning" is the same as garter stitch, knit every row - the English pattern, however, did say stockinette stitch, which is "glatstrikning" in Danish!! So I could have been in real trouble. *lol*

On My Way :)

Hi everyone, I got my yarn and started with the ribbing today on the summer top. I'm using Caron baby sport weight in white and lavender! oooh soooo pretty!

I'm already running into trouble, I've got the first row of heart done do I use the MC to purl across the back? or do I use the white to purl the heart?

Newbie knitter here, my first intarsia attempt with 2 colors :)

Thanks!
Kitty

yarn help!!

Hi.. I wonder if I can get some yarn brand names that you guys are using for the Summer Top. I went to the store to get 'Sport Weight Cotton' yarns and who'd have guessed it would be so hard..!!!

I came home empty handed after 3 stores so I'm shouting out for help here...

Any name ideas..? I wanted to try Dale Stork but it seems to thin according to the pattern..? Anyone have any ideas...? I'm going crazy here.. :(

Please help! :)Sue.

A hasty start

Hi out there!

I started my Summer Top yesterday (I have been placed in the wrong column, I am knitting the summer top and not crocheting the tote) because my DD Anna has her Grand Birthday on Sunday, she will be 3 and for the first time she is really looking forward to it. I bought some cotton in the local COOP-shop (Brugsen in Denmark), I chose the colours light lavender as main colour and hot pink for the hearts and borders *giggle* - the white yarn for Hello Kitty comes from the stash.
I already can see myself knitting a summer dress for Anna in this cotton yarn and with these colours again - they may be special but they also are great (in my eyes).

But I once again am reminded why I prefer knitting with ONE colour at a time and why I adore the creation of patterns with aran knitting, lave knitting, short rows etc. - boy, is it annoying to be knitting with three active colours and trying to put DS Emil, who is 10 months, to sleep at the same time - he is getting up on his feet in his bed again and again and I am putting down the needles and lying him down again and again...*sigh* Must be a bit funny to watch me fighting with not only Small Boy but also Many Strings. ;o)

In Progress!

Hello everyone!

Well I finally got started on my tote last night, I didn't think I could handle keeping four skeins straight at once with my dexterity problems due to Multiple Sclerosis so instead I used some chunky yarn and it's coming out really cute so far! I got the front done so far, the motif took me a long time to do because I'm still so new at crocheting with them, but it came out pretty sweet (if a little crooked on the ears! LOL

I will post an in-progress picture soon. Sadly I can't work on it today, too much housework to do (yucky!)

hugs
Ro

Kattepus makes a top...

And here is how far I've come.

(I started on the back)

HelloKitty-veske

Så er MIN HelloKitty-veske ferdig.
Skikkelig sukkertøy-farger, men yngstefrøken syns den ble kul.
Har sett mange puser med vakrere fjes en min Kitty ja, får håpe det blir bedre etterhvert.
Bildet av hele greia finnes i bloggen min, og kan beskues her:

Bildet ser du her!

oooh! Crochet!

So, I thought that I could crochet...? hmmm... I learnt double and single crochet last week, and I didn't want to make these dishcloths as my first project. Instead, I thought I'd be challenged by a great Hello Kitty one, since I know little and big girls who just love the sweet cat.

I looked at the pattern and whoa!!!!!!! Crochet 4 skeins.... turn.. turn.. and in my mind, goes.. WHAT?

I'm going to be the one raising my hand up (or posting up here) and saying "teacher teacher can you help me please...!".

I can knit (so I think I'm going to have to start with the tops first!) and figure out the bag as I go along...

*sighing for my lack of understanding...*

A little summertop

Now I've started on the top. It's in yellow and turqouise, and I'm soon finished with the hearts. Pictures will come soon.

Smilla's Summertop

I'm done with Smilla's top...so tonight I'll start on the tote =)

I realised that the crochet flower will be to big for the motif on the top, so I embrodered a flower instead. I'll write a new revision of the pattern during the weekend, so you'll get that next week. Have a great weekend!!!!

PS! Den heklede blomsten blir for stor, så det brodert blomsten istede. Jeg skriver om oppskriften i löpet av helgen, så får dere en ny versjon neste uke. God helg =)

It's a start...

When I finished my shawl yesterday I started out with the summer-top.
But that was really a hard transfer....from 8 mm needles to 2,5 mm needles!
I think I will need to do something on 4 mm before I continue on this.

Hello Kitty Summer KAL

Hello all

I started my tote bag yesterday evening.I make it in mixed natural white and beige colours.Sirdar spree 149 yards/100g The front seems to be really nice .I use 1 thread and hook 4,5.

Good luck to all