where's wally?

This week's favourite little hat was made by the knitting team at Sainsbury's Tewkesbury Road in Cheltenham. They all got together for a knit-in with cakes and biscuits and tea.

Things are really starting to get a bit chilly outside, which made us love this hat-scarf combo even more. (I just wish that I had a bit of a bigger version to keep me warm). We also think it's very Where's Wally inspired. So much so that I thought we could play a little game with it.

We'll send it out to a Sainsbury's store on top of one of our little smoothies. If you find our special hat send me a picture with your name to win a special prize.

Happy hat hunting.

bkc

be afraid

This week's scary little hat was knitted by Sainsbury's veteran Margaret S. This hat is simply the best because:

1. Mr vampire has his own proper posh red felt-lined cloak

2. He has blood dripping from his fangs

3. It's Halloween on Wednesday so choosing this hat makes us feel very up with the trends

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

little red riding hood

Here are this week’s rather spectacular hats of the week – knitted by Ann C in Bradford. What really stood out for me was Little Red Riding Hood’s wicker basket filled with cake and a little pot of butter (or at least I think this is what’s hiding under her white cloth).

We also think that it’s pretty clever how Ann has managed to bring such life to Little Red Riding Hood – with a clearly anxious expression as she is challenged by the big furry wolf with red goggly eyes and shining white teeth. Perfect.

green dragon

 

Hello. We were going to call this little hat 'fruity-saurus'. We felt pretty chuffed with our creative naming skills. But then some of the more knowledgeable people here told me that it is in fact a dragon. So we've temporarily re-named him 'green dragon'. We're on the look out for a more creative choice if you have any ideas.

The green dragon was knitted by Kate E. She also knitted us a lovely Bag-Puss design and it was definitely a close call, but green dragon eventually emerged victorious. We hope that you like him as much as we do. We think that the use of bobbles for the nose and eyes is particularly inspired. I'm going to pop him into our hat of the week box in reception. Hopefully he'll ward off any nasty things that try to enter Fruit Towers.

Things are looking up for hat-posting, it seems that awarding our first hat of the week this year to Postman Pat might have paid off after all. We got lots of exciting parcels today. I can't wait to choose next week's hat.

Bye for now,

big knit charlotte.

masterpiece

This week's hat - created by Pat - is this lovely little painter. We love its originality (the first ever artist design we've found) and his curly hair poking out of his hat. I'm especially impressed by his own knitted palette and paint brush complete with bristles and his bright orange bow is pretty special too.

But what really won us (or at least Mike) over with this magic number was his little smile. We'll pop him in the hat-of-the-week cabinet before we get too attached.

humpty hats

Things are definitely hotting up here for the Big Knit in Fruit Towers. We're getting lots and lots of lovely little hats (see how we're doing) and competition for Hat of the Week is getting pretty fierce. In fact Australian hunk Mike (who's helping us to open the hats) had his eye of a nice little duck until we found these incredible Humpty Dumpty hats.

In fact the sheer probability of getting two lovely Humpty Dumpties in the post in one week has blown me away - and so we'd like to share these with you for this week's Hats of the Week. These little masterpieces were knitted by Dawn and Sally (left to right). We're sure you'll agree that both look pretty smart.

Just to let you know, we'll be showing off our lovely Hat-of-the-Week winners on a special pillar in Fruit Towers so that everyone gets a chance to see them. If you're passing by our door pop by and have a look.

gooseberry fashion

This week’s hat was sent in by Susan C’s knitting group from Kent. We love the use of different kinds of wool and think the little bobbles remind us of gooseberries. The black strands which are neatly interwoven into the hat also make for an elegant design. This creation wouldn’t look out of place on the catwalk.

We’re getting a little stuck for hat-of-the week themes now. We’d love to know if you have any bright ideas.

double bobbles

This week’s hat of the week was knitted by Karen. Karen asked us what the shape-restrictions were for our Big Knit hats. When we told her to feel free to think outside the bobble-hat box she went all out and produced this lovely hat. We particularly love her use of motley wool and the double-ended bobble design looks very impressive.

We don’t know about you, but we’re finding that things are getting a bit chilly at the moment. Almost time to don your thermal vest and gather some conkers. With this in mind, next week we’ll be searching for the best autumnally inspired design. Get those creative caps on and happy knitting.

super-pigs

These little piggies were knitted by Karen who sent us 17 all the way from Edinburgh. We think that these are worthy of the Hats of the Week title because we love the way that she’s knitted their snouts, twizzly ears and the all-important curly-wurly tails. In fact we think that they’re so super we’ve put some on top of our natural vitamin c superfoods recipe.

Pigs were also a particularly poignant choice for us at Fruit Towers this week following the safe return of pignapped Piggy. Piggy was seized whilst our Julia was in a meeting and the pignappers have been making threatening demands for his safe return. After successfully finding a founder to kiss and convincing 50 people to donate £2 each to the Save Piggy Ransom Fund*, Julia was finally reunited with Piggy this week at our Monday Morning Meeting. Phew.

*All proceeds to WellChild.

never again lose your smoothie in the dark

Last week I mentioned we’d be looking for a hat to make us smile. Today we decided that this squiggly snake sent in by Imelda is just the ticket. The wrap-around design of this snazzy snake is sure to keep one lucky smoothie nice and cosy this winter. Imelda also sent us a glow-in-the-dark hat which gets full marks for creativity. In fact we reckon it’s the first ever glow-in-the-dark smoothie hat ever made by mankind. We’re so impressed by that fact we’re positively glowing.

lovely ladies in lace

We think these lovely ladies are more than worthy of this week’s hat(s) of the week title and were created by knitting team Sue and Dorothy. We hope that you’ll agree that these snazzy ladies are quite capable of bringing a summer’s smile to this wet and windy August morning (as we sit here and dream of warmth and summer frocks). Who wouldn’t be envious of Bernadetta’s frills?

They each have their own individual hair styles and we’ll be displaying them in our special Big Knit show case here at Fruit Towers for everyone to admire Aunt Edith’s bows and Sally’s French plait. Pop over if you’re in the area and need some hair-style inspiration.

And whilst you’re hiding inside from the downpours, grab those knitting needles. As always, we’ll be searching through all of the little hats that arrive to Fruit Towers, and it might even be your woolly creation making us all smile next week.

paying homage to the postman

This year’s first hat of the week was knitted by enthusiast Kim Lathe. Kim has knitted us lots of fantastic character hats over the years and when this package of goodies arrived we weren’t disappointed. We think that this creative masterpiece is simply amazing for three main reasons:

1. We love the attention to detail with his knitted glasses.
2. It’s Postman Pat (or as my brother used to call him dee dee dat) – and who doesn’t love him?
3. We think it’s probably right to pay homage to the postman. After all we’re hoping they’ll help to deliver lots of little hats to us this year.

If you fancy seeing your own work in the Fruit Towers showcase then get knitting. We’ll be searching through all the hats that arrive each week to find our winners.

P.S. Lots of brownie points for anyone that can knit a Mrs Goggins or Jess to keep Pat company here in fruit towers.

hats of the week 2006

These were the last winners of Hat of the Week in 2006. They were all credited to the intertwining talents of Sarah McLanaghan from Canterbury. If you'd like to see the full archive of 2006's Hat of the Week awards, please click here.