Penguin of the week: knit a jumper for a cold penguin

There are many reasons to start knitting.  Aside from it being quite a cool thing to do (says Bronte), it helps you reconnect with older generations and now you can also help save penguins from being cold.

A big oil spil recently in New Zealand meant that many little penguins needed to wait to be cleaned up by animal welfare workers.  A Yarn Shop called SkeiNZ started a campaign to get jumpers knitted for the little birdies.  The jumpers stop the birds from poisening themselves by over preening while they wait to be cleaned up by the oil-clean-up-people.  The result of the campaign was an overwhelming donation of little knitted penguin jumpers.

They have already reached their jumper quota, so don't start knitting just yet (but if you really want to knit, join these guys instead - the BIG KNIT at innocent is now massive and raises hundreds of thousands of ££ for Age Concern every year.  Our Bronte tells us she actually wrote the original knitting pattern for innocent back in 2003 and also knitted the very first BigKnit hat of all times - she is a lady of different talents indeed)...