Hats for Smoothies

[Chantal]

She should worry, I drink the stuff out of large cartons

[Chantal]

I'm all knitted out and am posting them off tomorrow (deadline 22 October) but I'm really quite chuffed with them. I don't even feel like parting with them...



150 hats in the photo, another 10 tonight and a friend has knitted another 25. I think between us we've hit Belinda's number of three weeks ago

How are you guys doing?

[Belinda]

Hi Chantal, everyone,

I delivered 232 hats to Innocent on Saturday - bit of a nightmare getting there what with the tube closures, and then there wasn't anybody at the office so I just had to leave them on the reception desk

I might do some more later in the year during the dark evenings - ready for next year. Currently I'm attempting to make a full size version of the blackberry-like one for a friend at work. We'll see.

[Elderflower]

Mine went off on Monday - only managed fifty but they`re really nice!
What a good idea to carry on making them for next year! Are we sure they`re going to do it next year?

[oldherbaceous]

Well i think a very big well done is in order.

[Chantal]

They've done this for the past few years and I think will carry on but I'm going to email and ask. I'll let you know.

I've just mailed my boxful off to them.

Have you noticed the hat-o-meter on their website is now rocketing up?

83,300 yesterday
176,000 this morning and
203,000 this afternoon

I do feel sorry for the postmen

[Chantal]

Hi guys

YES they're doing Hats for Smoothies in 2008 so we can keep knitting through those long winter days.

I have to admit I knitted (but haven't sown up or bobbled yet) another 20 whilst watching the Rugby and the Grand Prix I seem to be sadly addicted.

[Tigger]

I'll start again then. I got a bit distracted as my 'little' brother went into a major decline. Although he's still in hospital, it looks as though he may have turned a corner this morning, so I may be able to concentrate on the more normal aspects of life again.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Tigger, i hope everything soon looks a lot brighter for you and your family.

[Tigger]

Thanks OH. I know the inevitable's going to happen eventually, but it did look a bit dire yesterday. I wish I could bottle whatever it is he's made of - I'd be a millionaire!

[Belinda]

Get the knitting needles out - 2007 total to beat = 400,720

[Chantal]

I have to confess I've not actually stopped knitting them from last year and have nearly 200 completed already.

When it rains and I have nothing else to do, I knock out a few more; they soon add up. May do a few more this evening as it's pouring down here in Rugby.

I have also been making some with a band of that hairy/fluffy wool round the bottom and the last four rows at the top. When sewn up, they look great and it negates the need for a pompom which saves wool and time. I'll take a few photos and post them on here.

[PLUMPUDDING]

They look very pretty, but why do smoothies need hats, wouldn't it be better use of the wool to knit hats for old people to keep the poor dears warm?

[Chantal]

I doubt you'd get that many full sized hats knitted; I wouldn't do more than a few as I like to be able to complete the whole thing in less than half an hour. It's not so much of a project and therefore more likely to happen if I can do a few a day.

If I'd knitted my grandmother a hat she'd never have worn it, I can't recall her EVER wearing a woolly hat if I'm honest, although she'd always turn the heating up to an unbearable level

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Chantal, thats old people for you.