Saturday 12 September 2015

The Big Knit Is Back!

big knit jo's page
I have had my letter from AgeUK, asking me to produce some hats again for the Innocent Smoothie Bottles. Every bottle-with-a-hat sold will mean 25p goes to the charity. They are aiming at 800,000 hats! [Which represents £200K] Details here
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My hats tend to be simple hats with bobbles – and occasionally a stripe [because I use up my scraps] but Jo in Devon has set up an amazing website, with dozens of patterns. If you want to contribute something rather more interesting, do take a look at her site
Button Hats
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Flower and Butterfly buttonInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns, Helicopter ButtonInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Bee Hive, Beehive, Bee button
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Cat ButtonsInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Ocean Deep Fish ButtonInnocent Smoothie Big Knit Hat Patterns Button Hats Snail
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Owl ButtonInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns - HedgehogInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Shaun the Sheep
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Funky ChickenSmoothiesaurusWooliesaurusBig Knit JoClangersFunky Chicken     Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns - SnakeInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns - Toadstool
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Hen Cockerel ChickenInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns - Shark
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns - RabbitInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns - UFO, Flying SaucerInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns - Rapunzel
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - SootyInnocent Big Knit Hats Sweep PatternInnocent Smoothies Hat Pattern - Soo Panda
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Cup Cake cupcakeInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hat Patterns Post BoxInnocent Big Knit Hat Pattern - Pudsey Bear
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - OctopusInnocent Big Knit Hat Pattern - Parrot Bird LovebirdInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - Reindeer
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - Christmas PuddingInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - SnowmanInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - Top Hat
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - BeesInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - Cat in a HatInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - Fez
Innocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - ElephantInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - Santa HatInnocent Smoothies Big Knit Hats - Noddy

These are just a few of the dozens of patterns which Jo has freely published for the use of the BigKnit Campaign. You have to look at her site to appreciate them all! More patterns on the Innocent Site [here] It is Twelve Years since the campaign started – and I have been involved from the beginning. It takes me around half an hour to knit the simple hat – and once I have made a batch, then I make a pile of pompoms for them. Hardly any wool, hardly any effort – but someone, somewhere will benefit. That has to be worth doing!

5 comments:

  1. They are genius!!!!!! Oh my, knitted fez!!! I wonder if they could scale up? I'd totally learn if I could work on a knitted fez!!!
    What a talented lady!!!!Xx

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  2. And yes, it is totally worth doing. If I learnt, I'd give it a go for this good cause!!!x

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  3. It can't be that time already, can it! Now to hunt out the needles, and some wool.

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  4. What a fantastic site - so many variations.
    xx

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  5. Oh it does indeed! Thank you for the link!

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