Knit Away Saturday

Although the sun shone, it was easily more than ten degrees colder than yesterday, with a very playful chilly wind that made the garden dance and the guinea pigs hide. I had to stay home all day as I was waiting for delivery of some on line shopping (never came) and the new dishwasher I bought last week (finally arrived at 20.30!!). Really hard to do anything with a day that's basically spent waiting, and in the end, turned my attention to working on the little hats (66 so far) that I've been knitting on and off for 'The Big Knit' for Age UK. These little hats might be a bit silly, but the idea behind them is not. 


"The Big Knit started back in 2003 with an idea. We asked some older people, and some younger people, to knit little woolly hats. We put those hats on our smoothies, and for each one sold we made a donation of 25p to Age UK. The idea snowballed and so far the people of the UK have knitted an astonishing 6 million hats. Together we've raised over £2 million for Age UK and we hope to raise much more in the future."  - the bigknit.co.uk