Today finds me knitting up little bunny hats for fruit drink bottles. The Innocent Drink company has a Big Knit each year - knitters and crocheters send in little hats to fit their 250ml drink bottles, and for every behatted bottle sold 25c is donated to Age Action Ireland. It's kind of fun to make up these little hats and it's a great way to use up scraps of yarn. Last year I knit up every last inch of DK yarn in my stash into little hats with pompoms.
This year, though, I've been feeling a bit more adventurous. I've been looking at egg cozy and finger puppet patterns to see which can be adapted to drink hats. And I'm starting with this one - a bunny eared egg cozy.
It's cute and, miracle of miracles, it's knitting up the right size, but I think I'm going try some mods. More gradual increases from the crown and a more generous seed stitch brim for starters. There's enough of this lilac coloured cotton to knit half a dozen. So that's the plan for today.
To see what so many other clever people have been up to, check out Tami's Amis. Congratulations Tami on a year of WIP Wednesday posts!
18 comments:
I want to knit these little hats too, don't think I'll be as adventurous as you thoug! Yours look great!
I've been making smoothie hats today too ;) Love the pattern you're making, mine are all very vanilla at the moment!
Love the hat :)
Cute hats for a good cause.
Awesome! That's looking great.
What acute idea and a great charity. I love the colour and how it is looking. Great going!
So sweet, can't wait to see them all complete.
That's such a cute little hat !
that is such a good idea. what do they do with the hats you send them?
That is so cute! Do they only do it in Ireland? I haven't heard of it over here. :)
That hat is ADORABLE. :)
what a cute idea! An army of bottled bunnies.. Or bunny bottles.
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Very cute! I can just imagine a whole bunch of these in various colors. Great charity!
Very cute!!And they work up fast too right??
Bottles wearing bunny hats - now that's different. I too would like to know what happens to the hats.
25c is a generous donation and I imagine the behatted bottles would sell very well. What fun and what a great charity.
I just picked up the pattern for those hats too although I haven't had time to start any yet. Yours is looking good!
The hats look so cute!
The bunny ears are awesome. What a great cause!
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