My Green Shrug

In summer, I bought this lovely yarn (Woolhair, “Super Kid Mohair”, 55% wool, 30% mohair, 15% polyamide), green as peas, olives, the lawn – my favorite color by far. And I knew it had to become a shrug.

I had no pattern but an idea and kept knitting round after round after round (width: 180cm, height: 40 cm). Finally, two little sleeves and … no more. Because all that was left to do was an endless kitchener stitch seam from one sleave to the other. I dread the kitchener stitch.

Hence, I hid the whole thing at the bottom of my WIP basket. It’s been sitting there, patiently, for weeks until the day before yesterday. A friend was over, we sat chatting and crocheting after dinner and suddenly I felt like finishing the shrug. And I did!

Here it is:

Don’t just LOVE this color?!

woolly hats for innocent

It was at the Frankfurt YarnCamp when I saw innocent‘s little brochures, asking for wooly hats, first. (Before that, I didin’t even know innocent existed, not to mention they care about people – but that’s another story). And it was love at first sight!

The idea is to sell those little hats with innocent’s smoothies. For every woolly hat sold, they make a donation to support the elderly and old, who are cold in winter, lonely and isolated.

So far, 11.965 hats were knitted in Germany this year. Quite a few of them are real masterpieces! Second only to the amazing hats knitted by people in Great Britain.

So last weekend my mom and I would knit little woolly hats for innocent too. Rather hands-on than design, made of bits and pieces of stash, my mom would knit each basic hat and I would weave in the ends and take care of extras like pom-poms, flowers, and the like. You know how much I like to make flowers :). At the end of the day, there were 31 hats.

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For those of you who would like to join in (please do!!) – deadline is December 1, 2013; please see the (German) innocent homepage for more information (requirements, patterns, ideas) or watch the (English) film.

I need to go to the post office now to mail those hats 🙂