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Sanriotown Europe Team

The whole Sanriotown Europe team wishes you and your loved ones a merry Christmas and a happy new year! We hope you can spend some relaxed and peaceful days with those you love - and we of couse want to see you more around Sanriotown with Hello Kitty and her cute friends soon! Merry Christmas!

Christmas is approaching slowly with all the cozy feelings. When is the right time to remember all the beloved ones, if not on Christmas and new year? Make sure to check out the Sanriotown New Year and Christmas e-card selections on our e-cards section to drop a message by the ones you love and would like to remember. We are sure it would be the cutest thing they receive during the holiday time!

Dear Sanriotown friends, due to an unfortunate technical problem, our popular Dream Studio feature is not working right now. We would like you to know that we are doing our best to fix the problem as soon as possible. We are sorry for the inconveniences. While taking your time away, why don’t you challenge yourself on our game center, joining the go-cart madness with Badzt Maru or see how fast your fingers can get via Pochacco’s Marbles? We bet it is worth a try!

Sanriotown Europe Team

Here is a last minute gift to all the Hello Kitty fans. Now you can decorate your Christmas tree with a unique hand made and precious Hello Kitty crochet ornament. If you are already experience at the knitting area, than this is the ultimate christmas cutie for you, and if not you can still learn about knitting on various crochet and knitting sites and forums on internet and knit your first item with a Hello Kitty bauble. Lovely.

Here are the pattern and the instructions:

Head

1. ch2, 6 sc in 2nd ch from hook

2. 2sc in each sc around

3. sc in next sc, 2 sc in next sc around

4. sc in next 2 sc, 2 sc in next sc around

5. sc in next 3 sc, 2 sc in next sc around

6-10. sc in each sc around

11. sc in next 3 sc, dec over 2 sc around

12. sc in next 2 sc, dec over 2 sc around

13. sc in next sc, dec over 2 sc around

add eyes and nose, stuff.

14. dec over 2 sc around, slip stitch in next stitch. Finish off. Leave a long thread for finishing. Close up hole and pull remaining thread up through to top of head and add clip. Sew it securely.

Ears

1. ch2, 5 sc in 2nd ch from hook

2. sc in each sc around

3. 2 sc in each sc around

4. sc in each sc around

sew onto head–I use pins with big heads to keep them in the right place while I sew them on.

Bow

ch 8, sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each sc across.

Slip stitch in other side to form a loop. Finish off.

Leave a long piece of yarn for finishing. Fold it in half with the connecting part in the center back.

Wrap the yarn around center to form middle of bow. Knot it in back and use remaining yarn to attach to ear.

For more info and term explanations regarding crochets and knitting; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crochet

Have fun knitting!

Can you feel the Christmas excitement in the air? Well, we do! We are approaching to the merry Christmas time slowly and the best thing you can do while the time slips away is to decorate a big Christmas tree and check out our forum to leave your Hello Kitty Christmas Wishlist! It never hurts to reveal what you want to get on Christmas, plus you never would know if Santa reads it or not! Wishing you all a great and cozy advent time around and hope you share the love and friendship at Sanriotown!