Crochet designer Helen Ingram has created a special Comic Relief beard and nose for crafty charity supporters.

The Comet: Crochet designer, Helen Ingram together with Gilly and Jayne at Knit Knacks Wool Shop in Hitchin will be hosting a Crafternoon to raise money for Comic Relief.Crochet designer, Helen Ingram together with Gilly and Jayne at Knit Knacks Wool Shop in Hitchin will be hosting a Crafternoon to raise money for Comic Relief. (Image: Archant)

You can get the pattern online at www.woollychicdesigns.co.uk with £2 from every sale going to the cause.

Helen reckons that, depending on crochet experience, the exclusive beard should only take a couple of hours to create.

And she’ll be modelling some of her creations with the ‘make your face look funny for money’ theme of this year’s appeal in mind at a ‘crafternoon’ session planned for the Knit Knacks Wool Shop in Hitchin’s Bridge Street next Friday, March 13.

Mum of three Helen teaches crochet classes at Knit Knacks and runs a Crochet and Cake group at Just Desserts next door every Tuesday afternoon during school term time.

The Comet: Crochet designer, Helen Ingram together with Gilly and Jayne at Knit Knacks Wool Shop in Hitchin will be hosting a Crafternoon to raise money for Comic Relief.Crochet designer, Helen Ingram together with Gilly and Jayne at Knit Knacks Wool Shop in Hitchin will be hosting a Crafternoon to raise money for Comic Relief. (Image: Archant)

Next week’s event will run from 10am to 5pm and for a donation to Comic Relief you can enjoy tea, cake and craft and an opportunity to make squares for a Red Nose Day blanket, woolly beards, moustaches or crocheted red noses.

Materials will be provided together with tea, coffee and red nose cakes.

Find out more about Knit Knacks on 01462 42200 or online at www.knitknacksyarn.co.uk