Who likes hats?
I do.
I love hats. I’m one of those lucky people that hats generally suit. I have millions of hats in my winter wardrobe and bought 2 hats on honeymoon, one of which was lost at the electric picnic 
but replaced by my darling boy, who wore it for the rest of the EP! It suited him, what can I say?
ANYway, I’m rambling.
Heres a hat:
and heres another hat:
What, you mean they look a bit strange?
Strange in what way?
Oh that kind of strange.
Thats because, they are not destined for heads of humans, or even dolls, or aliens…they are destined for use on the top of a little bottle….
The Irish Big Knit is something thats happening in Ireland for the very first time this year and us Irish knitters are determined to make put our stamp of approval to the campaign.
Here’s some official blurb about it:
“The Big Knit is a campaign where Innocent, Topaz and the charity Age Action join forces to help older people in Ireland keep warm during the cold winter months. We will put little woolly hats on our smoothie bottles in Topaz stores from 5th November 2008, and for every hat-wearing smoothie sold, innocent and Topaz give €1 to Age Action.
The money raised from The Big Knit will go towards providing support to older people, including care and repair programmes and advice on how to keep houses warm during the winter.
We’ve set ourselves a big target of 20,000 little woolly hats as this means we’ll raise a brilliant €20,000 for Age Action and we’d love your help getting us to that target”
One of the great things about Ravelry is that it helps us all connect with each other. No sooner had I been contacted by Juliet from Big Knit to ask for our help, Stitchlily had already been on to it and had set up the Irish big knit 2008 group. I contacted Stephanie to see if she would be up for organising a Knit-Out in Dun Laoighre, to find that she had also been on the ball and had contacted Innocent herself!
So, there will be many little needles clacking away making little hats between now and then, and if you are around on Sunday the 12th of October between 12 and 4 in The Peoples Park, Dun Laoighre, come along and join us for a little Knit-Out.
It should be good fun, lots of chat, lots of knitting, lots of hats, hey, bring your own hat!
If you are a beginner knitter or a non knitter who would like a bit of a push start into knitting, come along also, it will be an ideal opportunity to learn, and to practice. There will be spare wool, and spare needles.
And maybe cake.