New Hello Kitty kal

Read more about the new Hello Kitty poncho kal over at Ravelry :)

I'm making something like this...with loads of flowers and a HK motif.

More knitting purses

I got some orders on sewed knit purses, so I've had my hands full sewing lately. Its fun to experiment and mix and match fabrics. I love the Shabby chic style! I went to my local fabric shop today and got some new fabrics. I'll sew some more knit pures this weekend I think I think :)

Apart from this, my daughter and I went to a 'Juletrefest', a christmas party, yesterday. She wanted to wear her Norwegian folk dress, and I think she lookes so cute in it. The movie below shows her dancing around the christmas three...even though she's more interested in my camera. What is momy filming right now..hmmm..lol

Shabby chic handbag

I'm really crazy about stitcheries now days...and have combined a stitchery and patchwork on this handbag. The handbag has a pocket in the front, and 5 inside for my mobils, ipod, keys etc. I'm going to make a similar large tote. When I pick up my daughter at kindergarden she always brings so much stuff and drawings with her, so now the car is filled with STUFF that soesn't make it to the house.

I'll also make some smaller ones to give away to her friends birthdays. I think they will ook cute and personal if I add their names to them. On of my new years resolutions is to not buy any gifts this year. I find my daughters room filled with plastic toys, they break easily and they are no fun! Sooo..a small handbag and crochet amigurumi will do the trick instead, at least for her girlfriends :)

Stitcheries

I've signed up for the Stitch 2008 along, Since I haven't tried this out before, I did a test block with an angel - Love is spread on angels wings. So after finishing this I finally dared to do the january block of the stitch along. It says ' To må man være'...which is Norwegian for 'Two makes a pair'. It's quite nice I think, even though the bees and the birds looks a bit funny. There will be 12 blocks in the along, one each month. I want to sew them all, and maybe make a large quilt out of them, which'll be my first quilt ever!!!! Today T made a Hello Kitty block, that I'll quilt and make into a ballet bag for my beautiful daughter :)

Happy New Year

Happy new year!!!! I have had a great Christmas Holiday and New Years Celebration!!! We went to the mountains for a couple of days, and did some skiing. My daughter even got to try out some slalom. It was so much fun!!!



And here she is skiing...it was so much fun watching her.

New Years Eve...nothing is like a big bundle of fireworks...even though it was a bit scary for some..lol



I even got around to doing some knitting. A stitching bitch hat for men. I really liked the way it turned out. And last, but not least...the felted Hello Kitty mittens, which are the second pattern in the Hello Kitty Mystery kal.

The Hello Kitty Mystery kal has begun :)

It's Christmas Eve...meaning the Hello Kitty Mystery kal has finally started. Since this is a mystery kal, the participants will receive one pattern at a time, receiving the next pattern as they go. As you can see, the first items are a felted crochet headband for grown ups, and a knitted hat for kids. I made a blue flower first, but I just had to rip it off and replace it with a pink one.

Apart from this, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Hope to see you all in 2008 :)

Busy bee

I've been quite busy these last couple of days. I've finished off some Christmas pressies, mainly hats and felted mittens for friends and family. Here are the crochet Japanese hats (have made loads of them now) I made for two friends, and a little baby.

I also made felted mittens for hmmm and hmmm. The heart ones was my favourite, its fun to just try different stuff while you go. The mittens are my design :)




Last night (stayed up faaaar to late) I sew two purses for my knitting and crochet projects. I always have at least 10 projects to work on at a time, and I hate to store and bringing them around in plastic bags. I look like a real bag lady...I tell you! But now I will sew lots and lots of these purses and put away each project neatly in its own bag :)

Stitch 2008

Some of the 'ladies' over at hobbyboden has planned a Stitchery along for 2008. There will be a block to make every month, starting of course - in January 2008. I have just recently brushed the dust off my sewing machine, and started to sew again. I have also admired LOTS and LOTS of the nice stitchery made by bloggers, but I have never ever tried to do a stitchery myself. However, Miss Oslofia is not afraid of trying something new...so I will join up on the fun. The January motif is really cute, and 12 different designers will post a different design each month.

I actually did some stitching las night, which somebody...not naming names here...suggested to be coasters :)

Hello Kitty Winter Mama is done!!!!

The grown up set for the Hello Kitty Mystery kal is finally done...pjuh! I've used the same colours as for the kids set, white, red orange and pink. This is also a 3 piece set (I'm a bit like rainman...have to work stuff in uneven numbers....lol).

Now I have to write down everything nicely...which usually is a nightmare. This time around I tried to write down everything on my computer as I went along, but like any new year resolution...it went straight down the drain!

3 weddings and a funeral...

...not really, but we have went to a wedding, christamas preparation party, and the theatre in the last couple of days. Our friends Kai and Carolina got married last week, so we had to go and throw some rice on them. My daughter thought that it was so boring in the back with me so she went up to the best man (our friend Arvind) and got a better view during the cermony :)

My baby has baked gingerbread, made a Christmas stocking and santa clause and mrs santa clause. The gingerbreads went down before we got a chance to take pictures, they were soooo good!

We also went and saw a play called 'reisen til julestjernen', and old Norwegian Christmas story about a princess that are looking for the christmas star. I've been seeing the movie every christmas since I was a child, so its so fun to see it with my daughter. This time we saw the play, where the story was a bit different. However, my baby was enjoying herself, and asking when she could patricipate in a play. They had kids in the play aswell, and their sewn outfits were so nice and winterish...giving me an idea of knitting something similar with really bulky wool. I think that will be my Christmas project. I'm thinking of making a dress, a sweater, leggings and a hat. The clothes will be white and light grey, with a bright red hat to top it. I made a sketch of it, I suck at drawing...I know!!!!

Santa Lucia

My daughter had a Santa Lucia celebration at her kindergarden yesterday. It's her that 'dances' in the middle. The kids had baked ginger cookies and Lussekatter (Lucia buns), and the parents got glue wine to go with the cookies. It was really cold outside, but it was worth beeing a bit cold and just watch the kids when they came out to sing for us :)

Hello Kitty Winter Kids set is done!!!!

The kids set for the hello kitty mystery kal is done...and here are some sneek peak pictures to show the colours I choose for the project. I tried not to use pink...but sorry guys, the first blue flower I tried just didn't give me any LOVE so I had to take it off and make some pink flower power instead. I dont know why I even bothered to try something else than pink..which surely is my thang...lol

I've posted a shopping list over at Ravelry.

Now I just have to do the finishing on the crochet grown up set, and I'll post the shopping list for that set in a day or two...probably two :)

SnB Knitting cafe

I went to my first knitting cafe tonight, with ladies from Hobbyboden crafts community. It was really fun to see some of the crafters IRL, to chat and to drink coffee and doing some crochetting. I started on a new project today, the Cloud bolero. It's a really fast knit, but with the lace and all (involves to much thinking for my little brain) I decided not to bring it to the knit cafe.

I started on a new crochet 'japanese' hat instead, which is a really easy and quick project to make. I finished it off when I got home...I just couldn't go to sleep before the rose was done! It's for my SIL, and I hope she'll like it :)

Decorating for Christmas

Well...Christmas arrived early to our house this year. My brother has been visiting us for a couple of days so I put him to work this evening putting up our x-mas tree. My baby went bananas with the decoration, and we had a great time decorating the tree and drinking glu wine.

My baby got to put the star on the top...like she always does. She also insisted on wearing her Princess dress while decorating :)

I really liked the way my japanese crochet hat turned out so I just had to make another one. I added a pink border on it, and a pretty rose with green petals. I planned on giving this one away for x-mas...but I think I'll keep it my self!!!! The black felted are for my friend Sandra.

Crochet hat

We went to an Advent party last night. The kids were having a ball, and my baby could finally wear her new Christmas outfit. I thought she looked like Cinderella, and she thought she looked like 'Guldtopp', a Norwegian fairytale princess :)

I also made a crochet hat after a Japanese pattern. It was fun to try the pattern out, coz I didn't know the gauge, yarn or which hook to use. The hat fitted me perfectly! I also added a rose to add something extra! I made it during an episode of my fav show, Midsomer Murders. I think I'll make some more as x-mas pressies. I'll also make one for my baby...even though she didn't want to have the same colour as me?!? She wanted a red one???

Advent calendar

I finally managed to finish of my baby's advent calendar last night...at 3 am. I had to sew the dress, make the face, wrap up the presents, and sew on the zillion metal rings for the presents. Well actually, the 24 rings felt like a zillion rings at 2 am :)

Well...it looks like someone was happy this morning. She's so cute...she believed that Santa had delivered it during the night when she was asleep. Her mother has been going on and on about it...so she still believes in Santa :)

The santa is really big, more than 1 meter tall!!! I've sewn the Santa along with the clothes, and knitted the hat, scarf and socks.

Amigurumi's and other useful things :)

I've had a great weekend. Haven't done much aside relaxing, crocheting and knitting. I'm still working on the mystery items for the Hello KittyMystery kal, but needed to do something else. So I've made a Hello Kitty and Mimi amigurumi's, a cupcake amigurumi, and some felted mittens.

Cupcake and Hello Kitty playing in the snow. They are waiting for Mimi :)

And some new felted crochet mittens that I've designed. I made them for a friends birthday yesterday. They are crocheted with bulky wool, so they were quick to make. I went went to the party last night, and she loved them :)

Hello Kitty Mystery Kal

There will be another Hello Kitty kal shortly...a mystery one!!! I will host it, and I've made a blog for it here.

I had a 3 h roadtrip today....in snowy weather....so obviously I had some time to think of something to make for the knitalong. The items will be a secret until Christmas eve...but here comes the 'themes' so far. At least they will give you some hints on what types of designs that are coming :)

Knit: Hello Kitty Winter Cuteness - for kids
Crochet: Hello Kitty Winter Mama - for girls (like us that dears to wear anything Hello Kitty'ish)

Ideas are still most welcome :)

Veronica has volunteered to change the layout of the kal blog...so I'm really looking forward to see what she comes up with :)

This kal will be exclusively to members of the Hello Kitty Ravelry group.

Start: 24'th of december 2007
Sign up ends: 23'rd of November 2007

I hope you will join us :)

Hello Kitty Knit/crochet along???

I have finally gotten access to Ravelry!!!! And guess what...there was a Hello Kitty group there that I just had to join...lol

I've hosted two HK kals earlier, a winter and a summer kal, and I think that its about time I have another one. I posted this on the group site over at Ravelry, so I'm thinking a kal exclusively for us in this group could be fun.

I have loads of ideas, could be knitting or crochet, for a child or hmmm...grown up. Could be handbag, accessories?!? It could even be like one of those mysterious kals..where you dont even know what the finished item is. It could be a felted item now that winter is here...at least for us Vikings!

I would love to get some inputs and ideas for items to make...anything...well almost...is doable!!!

Here are some oooold HK stuff that I've made.

Oslofia's Patterns Shop

Yup...I've finally managed to get online with some of my patterns. Check it out over at Oslofias's Patterns.

I've been working on slippers lately, so now I have to get it all down in writing. I've designed some crochet Mary Jane's, or ballet slippers as my daughter calls them. She's been dancing all around the house wearing hers, and here you can see her dancing outside when I tried to take some nice pictures of the slippers :)

Here's both of the Mary Jane's, and me showing off my pair. They are crochetted with bulky weight wool...so they are quick to make. You can easily make at least one pair in one evening. The blue slipper has big roses attached to them. I quite like the mix with between the blue and the white wool. I hope to have the patterns ready by the end of this upcoming week. They would make great Christmas gifts. I'm making a pair for my best friends birthday. Hope she is not reading this blog entry :)

Halloween and fabric grocery bag

Wow...what a combination showing of both my Halloween pics and then my newest project..the fabric grocery bag!!! Anyways, my daughter and I went to two Halloween parties last Saturday. What a day we had! My baby was an English princess, or Swedish. She couldn't make up her mind. She sat the and did the pearls on her forhead the evening before. She was so cute with the make-up an all.

The kids party was a blast. The kids run around and had such a great time. They got spiders (meatballs with legs) with green mashed potatoes for lunch, some nice blood (ketchup) to go with the spiders, and green poison lemonade. I had a little go at the lunch as well...and it was great :)

Well..some couple of hours later...much later, we were dancing on the sofa, the chairs...just about everywhere where we were not supposed to dance. It was a great party, I had so much fun :)

Lastly, the darn fabric grocery bag I just had to make today. I've seen them around on the Internet, and I've been meaning to make one for some time now. I was thinking about making some for my babys grandmother for Xmas, with her picture on of course. So last night I woke up at 3 am...and I couldn'r get that %¤%&# bag out of my head. I was awake for two hours, so today I just had to make one. I used a plastic one as 'pattern', so mine is exactly the same as the ones I buy everyday when grocery shopping. I ironed on my babe's pretty face. The outcome was...ehhh...ok. I guess that grandma will love one of these??? Maybe you will see a picture of me using this one...its good for the old planet we live on :)