smoothie charity
I guess if you have an allotment or garden you will normally make your own smoothies (we have this year with our raspberries, strawberries and the rhubarb made good ones too). However innocent smoothies are tasty too (when the fruit runs out) and now they have just got cute and charitable as well.
To raise money for age concern they are asking for people to knit little hats for their smoothie bottles, these will then be sold in Sainsbury's during November and 50p from each bottle will go to age concern. They got 230,000 hats last year (so £115,000) and this year are aiming to raise £200,000 by getting 400,000 hats on bottles. My mum gave me a leaflet on it and I have knitted my first one this afternoon:
modelled here by a Thirsty Planet water bottle (you don't have to buy any innocent products to join in).
If you want to join in they you can find the patterns and details here. Any little knitted hat of a similar size is acceptable, so if you have rather more advanced knitting skills you can go to town rather than following their 3 patterns. Check out their blog section for photos of some amazing ones in shapes of animals etc.
Happy knitting!
5 comments:
I was going to do it last year and ran out of time but I might try again this year!
I've knitted my second now. They really are fast to do; I'm absolutely terrible at knitting and I'm finding it quite easy.
They are just the right size for a cosy for a boiled egg too, so I might make a few extras for me later!
Just had a look at the patterns and it does indeed look quite easy. Love the ladybird one but that might be just a bit too advanced for my first one!!!
Thanks for this, i remember last years campain.i might give it a go. Only, the pom poms scare me i could never manage to make them, they always fell to bits..
dee, My favourite way to make pom-poms is quite easy, I a don't bother with the circles of carbaord method:
wrap the wool around your 4 fingers loads of times (50-75times) and then either squeeze a bit of wool between the middle two fingers, or, slip it off your fingers (so that it is still in a bundle) and then tie the other bit of wool round the middle tightly. The chop the loops at each end.
http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/2006/03/post_1.html
Or just knit hats without pom-poms. I'm going to try a pointy one next.
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