The Age of Innocence

Since finishing the pink blanket, I have been beavering away making little hats for Innocent Bottles.  

Every winter since time began for the last 10 years Innocent have been donating to Age UK.  They do this through an initiative called the Big Knit.  People like you and me (and my Flickr friend Mia) make teeny, tiny fairy/elf-sized hats just big enough to go on top of an Innocent smoothie bottle.  For every bottle with a hat that is sold (starts in November) Innocent donate 25p to Age Concern. Since they started, they have raised over £1 million!

I have made my hats very simply but, if you look here, you'll find some amazing designs that have been invented by some very talented people.

I am working on the basis that, if I make simple ones, I can make more and thus raise more money for Age UK.  So I started off with the basic pattern...



Then went on to embellish the hats a little more...





And then I started to make some in crochet...





This morning I went full circle with the plain pattern, but this time I made them with oddments of my handspun yarn...



I'm aiming to fill this box...



...and then I'll send it off to the UK.

Now - back to weeding the terrace!