We love original hats. If you've got any patterns or pictures that you'd like to share with us then please pop them in an email to [email protected] and we'll post the best ones for everyone to have a look at.
We'll also be uploading all of the Hat of the Week winners here. Feel free to comment on anything you see here at the bottom of each post and remember to always knit hard, knit well and knit strong.
Christmas cards, mince pies, fairy lights, pressies, baubles and duh duh de duh the beloved Christmas tree. The centre piece to your lounge, the twinking lights, tinsel, the smell, candy canes, carpet covered in needles. Everybody loves a Christmas tree, decorating it's tear drop shape to the sound of Bing Crosby, sipping mulled wine, ,trying to figure out where on earth you put the fairy from last year, chestnuts roasting on an open fire etc etc.
The Jardine family have created a wonderful and joyous video of their very own innocent tree dressing.
Well done for an amazing film, great production, acting and special effects.
We asked you what you use your hats and warmers for once purchased from le Sainsbury's.
We really have had some beauties, including babies donning warmers for head bands and grown women, yes grown women, using the little hats as ear muffs.
We really thought we had seen it all. Then these arrived.
Oh my.
Ronan the hamster looks dashing in his hat and the pink really sets off his eyes.
Smudge the cat looks irresistable in his very "en vogue" snood. Wouldn't you agree?
And, as for these two cheekey chaps or chapesses, there really are very few words to describe their wooly look.
Very professional modelling . Stern, rigid, alert.
You can vote for favourite animal snap by leaving a comment to the blog, the winner receives a case of smoothies.
You may have heard by now that we here at innocent have just released a charity single to support this years Big Knit... hoorah I hear you cry.
The innocent Big Knit choir's charity single "There's no-one quite like Grandma" is NOW available on iTunes. It's a meer 79p (the price of 2 apples or half a sandwich) and all of the money raised will go to the Big Knit charities, Age Concern and Help the Aged.
Download your copy from iTunes today (and maybe one for your nan to). We are of course gunning for that Christmas No.1 spot - giving Simon Cowell a run for his money - so every download counts.
You can watch the music video with the very lovely June Whitfield and Age Concern Camden's infamous, Carmen, Beryl and Jeane.
We had a quite a day when the actual, real life choir came to visit us in Fruit Towers this weeks - fresh from a live performance in London's Regents Park. There was a lot of excitement, especially for those of us who remebered St Winifred's School Choir the first time around.
Don't they all look lovely in their pink cardigans? So please get involved and buy your single now, think of it as an early Christmas present from you to Age Concern and Help the Aged.
The Big Knit has been instore now for 12 days and what a 12 days they've been.In Sainsbury's stores across the land, our smoothies, veg pots and squeezies are taking pride of woollen place on shelf.
'But what do I do with the little woolly blighters afterwards?' I hear you cry?
Well, I've found some answers by means of, mostly, head wear.
Here's Edie Prince demonstrating the latest in baby headwear fashion.
Fits like a dream
And here's Judith from Save the Children using her little hat as a cunningly disguised ear muff.
Good thinking, Judith but maybe you should ask Edie for a few style tips?
We'd love to see what you use your hats and warmers for so please send your pics to [email protected] and the top 5 fashion forward looks will win a case of drinks
So, it was a stunningly close hat of the week last week.
The creatively titled competitiors were "the flower that looks a bit like a lion", aka Dandelion (geddit? DandeLION?), and, an oldy but a goody, the Christmas pud, aka "51 days to go".
Dandelion took an amazing 56.46% of the vote, with "51 days to go" finishing a brave second.
Congratulations Bev from Derby, you did a spectacuraarrrrr job. A case of smoothies will be winging themselves to you.
Our friends from Thoughtful really are very thoughtful.
It was a cold, rainy London day when I received a call from the lovely James (pictured above, in the middle).
He wanted to know if it was ok if he organised a knitathon in aid of the Big Knit. I thought about it for about 12 seconds and replied "Well of course it is. That indeed would be very, very thoughtful".
A few phonecalls and a delivery of all the neccessary knitathon bits and bobs later, the Sainsbury's Romiley Thoughtful Knitathon was born.
They knitted and chatted and knitted for a whole 16 hours and managed to knit well over 100 hats.
We just wanted to say an enormous thank you to everyone who took part.
Every so often something so lovely happens that you just don't know what to say to do it justice.
At times such as these we turn to pictures.
Behold
Surely not?
It is.
Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. That is one big knitted smoothie bottle wearing its very own knitted woolly hat. Having never seen the like before we weren't really sure what to do with it. So we put it on a pedestal in reception and topped it with a tiara.
Check out the detail.
Pretty amazing, no?
It gets better.
We know. Little hats. Lots of them. 222 to be precise, now that can't be any sort of an accident. For those of you trying to visualise such a wonder struggle no further...
Look.
There were little bobbles, huge bobbles and no bobbles at all. There were light ones and dark ones and patterned ones and plain ones. There were sparkly hats and character hats and best of all there was...
Francis the Fisherman complete with pink cheeks and catch of the day.
All this and with no note of any sort. S Chilcott whoever you are, you've made our Big Knit. We promise to send you something lovely in the post and hope you get to see this one day.
After receiving this parcel we were briefly tempted to call it a day, surely nothing can be cuter than Francis? If you know better you've nine days and counting to get your hats in.
Seeing as it's Big Knit season, as well as the little hats for our smoothies and squeezies, we're also knitting lots of little warmers for our veg pots too.
The lovely ladies at Age Concern have been knitting their socks off but we still need a bit of a nudge to hit our whopping 620,000 winter woollen target.
So we're hoping that our hoardes of infamous knitters (that's you) can do their best to help out.
And when you're done whipping up your warmers, just pop them in an envelope (or small lorry) with your name, the amount you've knitted and send them to:
Big Knit Warmers, Fruit Towers, 3 The Goldhawk Estate, Brackenbury Road, London, W6 0BAThe closing date to get your warmers to us by is Friday 6th November, so plenty of time to get those needles trying something new.
Kim Lathe from Sainsbury's in Bridgnorth has formed her very own knitting club or should I say, empire.
The club consists of girls from Castlefields school, ladies from hilton brooke residential home and peeking in at the back is the their mentor and Queen knitter, Kim. As you can see, they have managed to knit an astonishing 3300 little hats.
A big big thank you to you all for your amazing knitting skills and hard work.
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