This week finds the floors in Fruit Towers Dublin (and the doors and some of our hairdos) strewn with multicoloured wool, because on Monday we launched the innocent Big Knit 2010 along with David Norris and some lovely ladies from Age Action- Delo McArdle & Beth Nunan. It’s based on a simple principle: the only thing more irresistible than a delicious fruit-filled smoothie is a delicious fruit-filled smoothie wearing a little hand-knitted woolly hat.
So we're firing up the Knit Signal (it’s like the Bat signal) and asking Ireland’s knitters to help us reach our ambitious target of 80,000 hats, which we’ll put on our bottles and send into shops. From past experience, the behatted bottles fly off the shelves (people are crazy for the cute little fellas), which is good news because for every one sold 25c goes to the lovely people at Age Action. They’ll then use the money raised to help keep Ireland’s vulnerable older population warm this winter.
Perhaps you, like some of us, still mumble “in-around-under-out” while you knit? That’s no excuse. Our website has patterns and instructions for every level, from rank amateur who doesn’t know a purl from a pompom, to the knitting pro who’s reading this in their knitted house off a knitted computer screen. And that’s where you’ll find other ideas too (the website, not the knitted house), like blogs, party invites, hat-of-the-week designs, and our patent-pending hatometer.
Remember each tiny hat is a warmer winter for one of the older members of our community, which leads to a toasty glow in the heart region for the knitter and for whoever buys the bottle. Who’d have thought knitting could keep everyone warm?
Here are some of our favourite photos from the innocent Big Knit launch
Here's David Norris with some little woolly hats
David with Age Action members Beth Nunan & Delo McArdle having a chin wag
David & Delo and the innocent Big Knit hatometer
Kate Kennedy's attempt to knit with giant needles
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