The Big Knit, run by Innocent Smoothies to raise money for Age UK, is now in its 10th year. For each hat knitted the charity receives 25p.

Perfect for using up all those sock yarn left overs that are too small to use for anything bigger. I thought the self striping sock yarns would look particularly effective. They are strangely addictive to knit.

They take very little yarn and are too light to register on our kitchen scales.