This week's hat of the week winner sees a knitter from last year's big knit return in style to be our first knitter to win two years running. Anne Broderick, from Cork, who knit these hats last year, surprised us again with a cute pair of smurfs. Thanks again to Anne, there's an innocent smoothies hamper on it's way to you as well claiming another spot on the knitting wall of fame.
Want claim your spot on the big knit wall of fame? Get your hats in early to be in with a chance.
We've loads of resources and nice facebook apps to you help you along with getting involved in the big knit. Check out some of the links below to find out more.
For patterns and helpful information on the big knit, take a look here.
Can't knit but want to help, this might just suit you.
Want to set up your own knitting event? Here's everything you need right here.
Brave enough to take the Big Comknitment? Sign up here.
Competition update.
Congratulations to everyone in the list below who has won a family pass to the Dublin premiere of Disney's The Lion King 3D in the Savoy Cinema. Check your email inbox for details on how to claim your tickets.
Garrett McCord
Sandra Gough
Susie Connolly
Laura F
Donnacha Redmond
Shelly Brennan
N'O B
Emmett Eiffe
Sue Carroll
Emily Diamond
Emma Carty
Emer Aine Landers
Daniel Bhattacharya
Shauna O Hara
Lorraine Brennan
Linda (MouseHSE)
Helen Costello
Steve B
Nuala Brennan
Vicky Kyne
Competition closed.
To celebrate the launch of Disney's The Lion King 3D on October 7th, we have 17 family passes to give away to the premiere screening in the Savoy Cinema, O'Connell Street, Dublin on Sunday October 2nd at 11am. As it is a breakfast screening, we'll have tasty new innocent orange juice to keep everyone refreshed. To be in with a chance of winning a family pass (2 adults, 2 kids) just answer the following question in the comments below. What's the name of the main character in the film?
Would you like to start your morning by winning some delicious innocent orange juice delivered to your door? No problem, but we can do better than that. Would you like to win some free orange juice for your next door neighbours too? Yup, we can do that, but that's easy. Would you like win some innocent orange juice for everybody on your whole street? That's more like it.
To celebrate the launch of our brand new innocent orange juice, we're giving up to 10 people the chance to brighten up their street by winning a free delivery of innocent orange for all of their neighbours. Just like the milkman used to do, we'll be putting a fresh carafe of innocent orange juice onto the door step of your house and all your neighbours houses.
To be in with a chance of surprising your neighbours and brightening up your street with a delivery of innocent orange juice, just go to our brighten up your street facebook app, find your street, tell us why you think your street should be brightened up and then fill in a few small details. We'll be picking winners in a few weeks, but feel free to big up your street on our facebook wall in the meantime.
Firstly, here's the rhyme:
Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run,
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?
Secondly, here are the hats, wonderfully knitted by Mary Quinn in Galway. The farmer's wife even has a knife. eeek. Thanks again to Mary Quinn, there's an innocent smoothies hamper on its way to you.
Want claim your spot on the big knit wall of fame? Get your hats in early to be in with a chance.
We've loads of resources and nice facebook apps to you help you along with getting involved in the big knit. Check out some of the links below to find out more.
For patterns and helpful information on the big knit, take a look here.
Can't knit but want to help, this might just suit you.
Want to set up your own knitting event? Here's everything you need right here.
Brave enough to take the Big Comknitment? Sign up here.
Competition update: Congratulations to Ronan O'Leary who'll be joining us in Fruit Towers London next weekend at the innocent AGM (a grown up meeting). Stay tuned to our blog to see how Ronan and his guest of choice get along over in Fruit Towers London.
We've always liked to know what you think of the stuff we make. Your phone calls, letters, emails and visits into Fruit Towers Dublin make sure we know what you think we should do next and what we could do better. Every year we hold our very own AGM (A Grown-up Meeting), where 150 of you come to the innocent HQ in Fruit Towers London, ask some questions, learn a bit more about our business, make and taste some new stuff, and eat cake. And we’re rather excited about this year’s AGM on Saturday 8th of October.
Last year we brought lucky blog reader Mark Moran and his friend over to Fruit Towers London to report back for everyone else, and we'll be sending somebody else this year. Read on to find out more.
It’s our fourth AGM, but the first at the brand spanking new HQ office in Ladbroke Grove, London. It’s a proper tower the new office, right next to a canal with real life ducks floating about, and special taps that dispense boiling water. It's great.
We’re running a competition to fly one of you, our loyal drinkers-of-smoothies-and-readers-of-blog, and a friend, to London, with hotel accommodation nearby Fruit Towers London included, to attend our AGM on October 8th.
To win the free trip to London, just post the question you’d like to ask Adam, Jon and Rich the founders of innocent in the comments section below, and through a very scientific process possibly involving arm wrestling, we’ll pick a winner from the most interesting questions. The lucky winner could get to ask their question to them in person.
So comment away, question away, make us smile or gasp or scratch our heads - it’s over to you...
Competition closed.
This week's hat of the week is something to behold. Pauline Duffy, from Bray, knit us an old lady knitting a hat. That's right, a knitter knit us a knitter knitting a hat for the big knit. The detail in Pauline's lil old lady hat is absolutely amazing and we'll be rewarding her with an innocent smoothies hamper.Thanks again Pauline.
Want claim your spot on the big knit wall of fame? Get your hats in early to be in with a chance.
We've loads of resources and nice facebook apps to you help you along with getting involved in the big knit. Check out some of the links below to find out more.
For patterns and helpful information on the big knit, take a look here.
Can't knit but want to help, this might just suit you.
Want to set up your own knitting event? Here's everything you need right here.
Brave enough to take the Big Comknitment? Sign up here.
When we received a shoe box full of hats into Fruit Towers this week, we could sense a hat of the week winner. We were delighted when we spotted these 3 little chicks among all the other wonderful hats. The knitter behind these gorgeous hats is Maureen McGarry from Dublin. Thanks a mil Maureen, there's an innocent smoothie hamper on its way to you.
Want claim your spot on the big knit wall of fame? Get your hats in early to be in with a chance.
We've loads of resources and nice facebook apps to you help you along with getting involved in the big knit. Check out some of the links below to find out more.
For patterns and helpful information on the big knit, take a look here.
Can't knit but want to help, this might just suit you.
Want to set up your own knitting event? Here's everything you need right here.
Brave enough to take the Big Comknitment? Sign up here.
With only 5 more weeks of knitting to go until this years innocent big knit deadline, we need loads more hats so we can reach our goal of 80,000 hats and giving Age Action Ireland a whopping €20,000 to help keep older people warm this winter. Thanks to everyone who has sent a in little hat so far. We've had some wonderful knitting creations arrive in the post here in Fruit Towers.
To help get everyone from knitting pros, total beginners, and even those who can't knit at all involved, we've come up with a few little ideas so everybody can help out.
First up, for anybody who can't knit, but has a few hats from behatted smoothie bottles they bought during last year's big knit lying around, we've created the innocent big knit hat amnesty which gives old hats a new lease of life.
What about those people who can't wait toget knitting? Well, if your brave enough, you can take the big knit big commknitment and pledge to knit 20 hats and tell 5 friends about the campaign. To help you hit your target we'll send a pack containing wool and knitting needles to the first 250 who take the big commknitment. We'll also add you name to a lovely list of people who took the big commknitment.
Do you love knitting so much that you'd like to host your very own big knit knitting event? If that's you (we love you), we've got just the thing for you. Check out the your big knit app on our facebook page. It's got everything you need (except tea and biscuits) from downloadable knitting event invites, bunting, and patterns for all levels of knitters to help you hold your own big knit knit-in.
The sound of knitting may have even taken over your local radio station, thanks the innocent big knit radio knit off. We teamed with with 8 local radio stations around the country and they pitted themselves against each other to see whose listeners could knit the most little hats. It's been tough competition and you can find who who has been knitting their way to the top of the charts right here.
So, you might have guessed, we love knitting. But going by the amount of support we've been getting this year, thousands of you out there are just as knitting crazy as we are. It's even starting to spread to the local pub, which just proves, all you need is a ball of wool, a pair of needles and some friendly faces to get your knit on.
To find out more about the big knit and who it helps, check out the big knit homepage.
Also, if you'd like to show off your knitting creations before you send them in, post them on our facebook wall for everyone to see get inspirsation from.
And, last but not least, everybody has a chance to stake their claim on the big knit knitting wall of fame in our weekly hat of the week competition. As well as attaining infinite knitting superstardom, each weekly winner wins an innocent smoothies hamper.
Competition winner update. Drum roll please.
Congratulations to Jennie Daly for her winning tip for getting the kids to bed early.
Here's her top tip.
"I make a special breakfast for my girls to have the first day back to school. The day before I ask them what would they like for their special breakfast and they wake full of excitement, ready to have their favourite breakfast! It's a nice way to start an otherwise stressful, for everybody, day. Plus you're guaranteed they won't leave on an empty stomach. :) "
We'll be in touch with you soon Jennie.
Can you believe it's back to school time already?
The list of things to do seems endless... the new school shoes strategically bought 2 sizes too big, the brown paper covers to protect the books from creative doodles and the busy school run each morning.
To help on the lunch box front all our kids smoothies are currently half price in Dunnes, SuperValu, Tesco, Superquinn, Spar, Eurospar and Londis.
We're also giving one lucky blog reader the chance to win a "smoothies for kids" hamper. For a chance to win we'd love to hear your top tip for getting the kids up in the morning and back into the school routine is? To enter simply share your top tip with us in as a comment below.
Good luck.
Competition closed...
But do check out our facebook page to the latest competition and innocent news.
Choosing this week's hat of the week was a bit of a nostaligic trip taking us back to our childhood days of watching the muppets and seasame street. Along with 46 more, these wonderful hats were knitted by Ceri Connolly from Malahide, Dublin. We have to say though, Miss Piggy is our standout favourite. She even comes with her very own pearl necklace. Posh.
There's an innocent smoothies hamper on it's way to Ceri.
Want claim your spot on the big knit wall of fame? Get your hats in early to be in with a chance.
We've loads of resources and nice facebook apps to you help you along with getting involved in the big knit. Check out some of the links below to find out more.
For patterns and helpful information on the big knit, take a look here.
Can't knit but want to help, this might just suit you.
Want to set up your own knitting event? Here's everything you need right here.
Brave enough to take the Big Comknitment? Sign up here.
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