Knitting up a storm

MURRAY WILSON/Manawatu Standard

SNUG AS A BUG: Four hundred and thirty beanies mean 430 warm little heads - Knit World Palmerston North worker Judith Le Fleming shows what can be done with patience and scraps of wool.

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Palmerston North knitters have had those fingers fair flying, knitting 430 beanies for children from low- income families.

Knit World worker Judith Le Fleming said keen knitters had made the beanies using mostly left- over wool. The hats will be distributed through the Kids Can Charitable Trust, which helps meet physical and nutritional needs for poor children.

The hats were easy to make - a rectangle big enough to fit snugly on a child's head, then some decreasing to shape the top. Some of the knitters added tufts and pompoms.

Mrs Le Fleming said the knitters started in March. Each year, her company asked regular customers to knit for a different charity, and last year everyone made clothes for premature babies in neonatal units.

"Teeny tiny booties, very quick to make."

Some of this year's beanies will go to Foxton children, and other low-decile schools.

Nationally, customers had knitted 15,126 hats, to go to 70 schools.