Innocent Drinks’ Big Knit is Back

Here’s one for all you Brit knitters out there: Innocent Drinks recently announced that it will be doing the Big Knit again this year.

There aren’t yet a lot of details, but the project was announced on the company’s Facebook page, with a note that more details will be available soon.

This is the ninth year of the Big Knit, which, if you don’t know about it, is a campaign to knit tiny hats for Innocent smoothie bottles. For each hatted bottle that is sold the company gives 25p to Age UK, in particular, to help elderly Brits stay warm and healthy during the winter.

The company has donated more than £1 million, which certainly has helped a lot of people.

Have you ever participated in the Big Knit or do you plan to this year? Spill it!

[Photo by Mark Hillary via Flikr.]

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn.

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small.

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches.

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come.

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you.

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?).

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry.

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns.

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]

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