Hats knitted for the 2014 Campaign
The hats I knitted for the 2014 campaign	Individually bagged up in sets	All parcelled up ready to go to Fruit Towers!	If you want to join in  - click here
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Marie-M's Hats
		Marie-M remains a dedicated supporter of the Big Knit Campaign.  She knits mainly for the campaign in Switzerland, but loves to share her designs and ideas with us here in the UK via my website.  I have been happy to feature more of her patterns this year - find them here. We are in touch almost daily via email and I am so pleased to have met such a lovely person through the Big Knit Campaign.
These are the hats knitted bu Marie-M in Switzerland
Catherine Holland's Hats
			107 of these were Ollie Octopus hats.  Jade knitted an incredible 100 Octopus; indeed she is known to knit 7 or 8 hats whilst watching a film! The photos took 3 people 2 hours to set up - definitely worth all the effort.
A fantastic 1000 hats knitted by Catherine and her daughter, Jade
Alison Rowland and her Mum's Hats
		Alison Rowland and her Mum knitted the hats on the left.  250 in all, 225 of her Mum's creations and 25 of Alison's.  They are going to drop their hats into an Age UK shop and were fortunate to be given enough little booklets of labels to put one on each hat!
Alison Rowland and her Mum's hats
Diane Will's Hats
		Diane Will has knitted a "wee pile of 40 hats". She sent them off to Age Scotland last week and wonders where they will all end up? Diane is certain she has knitted Major Clanger, one thing she is certain of, it is not 'Tiny Clanger'!!
Diane Will's hats
Jennifer Brunton's Hats
		This was Jennifer's first year of knitting hats for Smoothie Bottles.  She knitted 45 in total and hopes that they are doing the campaign again next year...... .............a sure sign of Hat Knitting Addiction setting in!
Jennifer Brunton's Hats
Katharine McGuigan's Hats
		Katharine has knitted 75 hats so far but is still knitting. She is fortunate to live a five minute walk from Fruit Towers so can drop her hats in on her way home. Maybe I should make it my ambition to drop my hats off in person one year.....!
Katharine McGuigan's Hats
Mandy Lindley's Hats
		Mandy is also a newbie Mad Hatter - she has knitted 55 hats this year, but is aiming for a higher number next year.  Mandy is better known by many of us for her skills at knitting donkeys - she had a little trouble with her first donkey which has now been named 'Wonky Donkey'!
Mandy Lindley's Hats
Mavis T Pig's Hats
		Mavis knitted a total of 140 hats and dropped them in to her local Age UK shop in Bedminster. The staff there were absolutely delighted - I am not surprised, what a lovely collection.
Hats knitted by Mavis T Pig
Princess Ntombi's Hats
Hats knitted by Princess Ntombi - 575 in total and another lucky person who lives close enough to Fruit Towers to drop her hats off in person - say hello to everyone for me!
Priscilla Seymour's Hats
		These are most of Priscilla's hats for 2014.  The photo was taken in Guernsey but Priscilla lives in Florida for most of the year.  She has some more hats to add to her collection when she gets back to Guernsey. This is her second year of knitting hats, she enjoys seeing all the wonderful contributions from the Facebook group, and trying some of the new ideas. Priscilla wonders if she is the most far flung knitter in the group?
Priscilla Seymour's Hats
Karen Duncan's Hats
		This is Karen's second year of knitting little hats and she is pleased to say that she has definitely beaten last year's total of 37 hats!  A lovely collection of designs for 2014, I am looking forward to seeing the 2015 hats!
Karen Duncan's Hats
Meg G-C's Hats
		Meg is 32 years old and suffers from a chronic illness, Lupus SLE.  She loves to knit for charity as it gives her something to focus on as she can no longer work. She felt she would like to introduce herself as the creator of these lovely hats.  An amazing collection of 100 hats for Innocent.
Hats knitted by Meg G C
Cindy Boot's Hats
		This is the second year that Cindy has knitted for the Big Knit Campaign and she has once again enjoyed it. She decided for 2014 to make two of each design and particularly liked making the little animal hats Click here to see the sets of two hats. PS - They are fabby!
Cindy Boot's Hats went in Two by Two!
Mandy Lee's Hats
		This is Mandy's second year of "hatting" and she has managed 344! Last year she found out about the campaign at the beginning of October and managed just 43 to send off to Fruit Towers. However, she had so much fun knitting them, that she carried on; initially aiming for 150..... ......but as we all know it's addictive!
Mandy finished her hats and couldn't get upstairs!
Nicola Gough's Hats
		Nicola didn't take a photo of the 89 hats that she took to Age Cymru but she did take one of the Dougals. There are only 19 here as 2 escaped but you will be pleased to hear that they were later found.  If you would like to knit a Dougal - click here
Nicola's Dougal Hats
Emma Rodger's Hats
		Emma has developed her knitting skills this year whilst working on little hats for little bottles.  She has enjoyed using patterns from this site. Emma has used buttons on her toadstool instead of stitching on spots and also uses them for eyes. A lovely collection of hats Emma.
Emma Rodger's Hats
Katrina Strachan's Hats
		Katrina has just sent off 163 hats to her local Age UK shop - and here is a photo of every single one of them!
Katrina Strachan's Hats
Hilary Ball's Hats
		Hilary joined the campaign late last year and managed to knit 50 little hats for 2013. This year she is pleased to say she has 388 hats ready to post off. Like the rest of us, Hilary is addicted to knitting little hats and gets a great deal of pleasure from her hobby.
Hilary Ball's Hats all ready to be sent off.
Sue Pigg's Hats
		This is the first year Sue has made hats, inspired by the work of others on this website. She reached her self imposed target of 100 this year and plans to keep making them for the 2015 campaign. Sue loves the community aspect to this project and helping to support a great cause.
Sue's Hats destined for a post box soon!
Helen and Alison's Hats
		Helen and Alison are Teaching Assistants from Stroud.  They loved knitting hats so much last year that they set themselves a higher target this year of 100 each. Having longer to knit them certainly helped – and the knitting helped to relieve the stress of an impending Ofsted inspection too! Alison is a big fan of the octopus and this year Helen's favourite was the heart hat which she hopes will be popular around Valentines Day.
Helen and Alison knit in their school holidays!
Tracey and Ivy's Hats
		In October 2013 Tracey was sat watching the TV when she saw an advert requesting little knitted hats to be sent to Innocent Smoothies for their Big Knit Campaign in aid of Age Concern.  That year she knitted 12 hats. This year Tracey has knitted 84 hats and she has inspired her friend Ivy to crochet 81 hats too.  By my reckoning they are in line for 580 odd each for 2015!! Tracey loves the fact that her little knitted hats may be making a small differnence in someone's life.
Tracey and Ivy increase hat production in 2014!
Shelly Sherrington's Hats
		This is Shelly's 2nd year of knitting hats. She only managed a few for 2013, but with help and starting early managed 100 in 2014.  Shelly is registered blind - so this is all the more incredible! Thank you for sharing your story Shelly.
Shelly Sherrington's Hats

Christina Rule's Hats
		In 2013 someone at work asked if Christina would like to join in the Big Knit. With two weeks to go she managed to make 30 (Left hand picture). Last year she started earlier and made just over 180.  See some of them in the right hand photo. Everyone in Chiristina's office liked them so much they decided to sell some of them off and send in some money along with the donated hats. They fetched £1 each.
Christina Rule's Hats