The UK’s largest bobble hat has been knitted to mark the 20th anniversary of Innocent Drinks and Age UK’s The Big Knit partnership. Measuring 23ft tall and 20ft wide, the gargantuan creation weighs nearly 129 stone (817 kilos) and was made up of 545 individual knitted squares and two million yards of wool.
The Innocent Big Knit is an initiative which sees little knitted hats put on smoothie bottles, with every behatted bottle sold raising 25p to help Age UK provide services and support to older people. The partnership has raised over £3 million for Age UK after collaboratively knitting nearly 11 million hats.
The woollen masterpiece comes after research shows that even before the cost of living crisis, 15 per cent of older people in the UK were living in poverty, equating to 1.7 million people.
