Save the Children is promoting an important campaign called, Knitting to save children's lives.

Save the Children provide a free (PDF download) pattern for you to knit a hat (and for those of you who never learned how to knit, there is a beginner's guide included with the pattern) and a printable card for you to fill out that will be sent to the prime minister, Gordon Brown, asking him "to make saving children's lives a priority today".

Send both the hat and the card to Save the Children and they will send the hat to mothers and babies in developing countries, and the messages to Gordon Brown.

Send your hat and message to:

Save the Children
1 St John's Lane,
London EC1M 4AR