wonderwool

Helen and friends recently held a knitathon at Wonderwool, Helen's new knitting shop in Rugby. Here they are having a go at knitting some little Supergran hats. Marvellous work.

super buddha

I came across this Buddha statue on the backstreets of Asakusa, Tokyo while I was there earlier this year. You will notice that this particular Buddha has been dressed in his very own knitted red hat and bib, as have his little friends at his feet. It was pretty cold in Tokyo in February but I was wondering if anyone knows what this Supergran-esque appearance was all about?

101 not out

Please say hello to Anne Richards. Anne lives near Lincoln and we think that she's our oldest knitter (she's 101 years old).

Anne went out and had her hair done especially for the photo. And she's knitted some fine hats for Supergran. Thanks Anne.

walls of wool

Tansy's sister Lettice has been doing some cool things with wool. According to Lettice it was a performance piece to ‘disrupt the urban flow and distract people from their everyday’ as part of her architecture degree. It’s part of a longer term project to design an arts centre in Cambridge.

Even better news, at least for us, is that after the distraction, all of the wool has gone to grannies and knitting groups in Cambridge so that we can get some more Supergran hats. Thanks Lettice.

a place to put your woolly hats

A quick note to say that there's now a Supergran flickr group. So if you're knitting some hats, take a few pictures of your good work and post them up there pronto. There will be a prize for the finest photo - £100 each for the best three shots. Get knitting (and snapping).

a picture of Laura doing her knitting from the flickr group

hilda's hats

This is Hilda Hill, she is 91 years old and is Emma's grandma. Emma wrote to us wondering if her grandma was our oldest supergran knitter. Well so far it looks like she is, so the award for oldest knitter goes to Hilda (unless anyone knows anyone older?). Congratulations Hilda.

Hilda on her 90th birthday

And here are some of Hilda's hats. She's knitted 66 so far (35 pictured neatly below).

more hats, not cobblers

The people of Northampton are getting into Supergran - see here. Thank you people of Northampton.

the real supergran

We got an email from a lady called Di last week. As Di says:

"Hi. I read with interest (via delightfulblogs.com) that you are holding a knitting competition for the public to make Supergran hats for your product. I just thought it may interest you that I actually knitted Supergran's cardigan. I was a knitwear designer back in the 1980s and was commisioned by my local TV station Tyne Tees TV. It was the most difficult item I have ever made as they asked for it to look awful and tasteless. At the time I was knitting and exporting expensive designer knitwear around the world and this was just not my thing. I got the grand total of £16 for it."

We are honoured to have been contacted by someone who was involved in the original Supergran. For the younger readers amongst you, Supergran was an 80s TV show featuring a gran with superpowers (you may have guessed that from the title). Whenever she was about to do something really super, she'd do the devil horn thing with her hands, like a heavy metal drummer. Oh yes.

Anyway, if you want to see what Di is up to these days, she has a blog featuring some more tasteful stuff right here. Don't think she knits dodgy cardigans anymore.