Chicken Jumpers Rule

Ribbon Circus held its second Chicken Jumper Knit In on Sunday. "What on Earth are you taking about?" I hear you cry...


Well, lots of lovely people come to the shop, drink tea, eat cake and knit a jumper that will be given to a recently liberated hen from a battery farm. We're knitting for a good cause, but we're going to have fun doing it.

Some hens leave the battery farms a little worse for wear and lose their feathers. They make a full recovery, but in winter need a little help keeping warm and this is where a teensy jumper can make all the difference to a bald chicken.

Chicken jumpers are great for knitters of all abilities. Beginner knitters can learn to increase, decrease, make buttonholes and shape a neckhole. Advanced knitters can use up their leftover yarn or just pick up a jumper inbetween more complicated projects. And then there's those of you who knitted many moons ago and want to get back into it, but have lost confidence. Chickens jumpers, they're perfect for everyone.

I give out free patterns and yarn at Ribbon Circus for anyone wanting to knit a chicken jumper. Pop in and see me.