great knitting ideas

I just thought I would share some great things that are going on in the knitting world:

Innocent's Big Knit starts this Saturday!

Innocent, makers of smoothies and fruit juices, have been running the Big Knit in support of charities for elderly people for some years now. This year they're aming to raise £160,000 for Age UK (which was formed last year when Help the Aged and Age Concern merged) by selling 650,000 little hats on top of smoothie bottles this November – and for that, they need all those little hats. If you can use up your oddments knitting mini hats and get your friends together for a hat knitalong, Innocent can certainly make use of your tiny titfers.

This year the patterns will be going up on Ravelry as well as Innocent's website. (The patterns are due to go up soon.)

Knit one purl one for Battersea's homeless cats

Cat Knit is the perfect way to show your support for Battersea by purr-ling for cats that need something to keep them occupied while they wait for a new home.

Battersea’s cattery is preparing to be inundated with cats and kittens this summer, the charity is calling upon knitters and crafters across the UK to make knitted catnip mice to help keep Battersea’s whiskered residents entertained while they wait for new homes. 

http://www.battersea.org.uk/about_us/whats_new/cat_knitting.html 

Knit a solar system with the Science Museum

Stitching an entire solar system seems like a tall order, but with your help that’s exactly what the Science Museum in London is hoping to do!

As part of their Stitch Science weekend (25-26 June 2011), the museum is teaming up with Stitch London to host a range of workshops, showcase an exhibition of knitted and sewn science-y objects ranging from skulls to stethoscopes to an 8-metre knitted giant squid, and offer the opportunity to make your knitterly mark on the stars.