Saturday, November 16, 2013

The Big Knit (Den Store Strikkefest)

Den Store Strikkefest
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The Big Knit
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Mets ton bonnet
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Das Grosse Stricken
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De Goedgemuste Breicampagne
 

Knit a hat for a smoothie and 2 DKK will be donated to DaneAge Association (Ældresagen) whensold. Seriously it is about knitting funny hats for those smoothie bottles - miniature hats of course - but thought it sounded too funny to be missed. Once the deadline was reached the hats are mounted on bottles that will go into stores soon.
 

Knitting for good causes - there are actually a lot of interesting ones out there, but this kind I have never heard about before... untill reading about Innocent Drink's Danish campaign. Looking around, there is actually a lot of inspiration to be found - and not much yarn is needed to make one of the hats, the Innocent Drik campaign website even shared tome basic patterns to get people started.
 

Me, I only have one "but" with innocent drink - actually with a lot of other smoothies - most of them contains banana, which is a total no-go for me (allergies) and have a hard time finding those without banana flavour. On the other hand I applaud the use of banana as sweetener instead of artificial additives/sweeteners. The model in above photos was donated to a friend who enjoyed drinking a smoothie :o) Donated 4 mini-hats this year - but think it will be more when the party re-opens in 2014 - a great use of left-over yarn from bigger projects.

2 comments:

Kim@stuffcould.... said...

These are so cute...banana is used ...too bad for your allergy

Birdie said...

Very cute - when I saw the first two hats, I thought they were for preemie
babies. Another good use for such a campaign.