The World's Fastest Knitter!

Lots of folks have been kindly sending in beautiful tea cosies to help suppport our fast-growing social project, The SuperJam Tea Parties.

Knitting is no longer just a hobby for Grandmothers; it seems that the skill is one that is seeing something of a renaissance. I personally think its very cool. I was looking up the worldwide knitting championships, where knitters from all over the world come to find out who is the fastest knitter.

This year's winner is Hazel Tindall from Shetland, who knitted a mighty 262 loops in just three minutes. You can watch some BBC Scotland coverage of her preparing for the competition, here.

If that inspires you to take up some needles, feel free to knit a tea cosy that we'll put to good use at our tea parties. If we particularly like your work, we'll even feature your cosy as our Tea Cosy of The Week and will send you a bunch of jam as a thank you. Worldwide fame awaits you.

Ging gang goolie goolie..

I went to scouts as a kid and it was a lot of fun; cooking/burning sausages on an open fire, camping in the rain and playing since-banned games like 'British Bulldogs'. Recently, my old Scout group in Cramond, Edinburgh went all the way to Iceland for a Jamboree.

You couldn't really go to a jamboree without some jam, so I gave them a bunch and they kindly sent back some snaps from the trip.

If you are a community group and would like some jam, let me know. Always happy to help out.

Tea Cosy of The Week....

As part of The SuperJam Tea Parties , we've been receiving donations of hand-knitted tea cosies. This dainty little floral number was knitted by one of the Edinburgh CSV volunteers. You can check out their website here to find out about volunteering opportunities in your area.

Feel free to whip out your knitting needles and create a tea cosy for the cause, we'll feature it on the blog and send you a whole bunch of SuperJam goodies...

Talking about motivation on BBC Scotland...

I'm becoming something of a regular on BBC Scotland these days.

You can listen to a nice little chat we had this morning about motivation and achieving what you want in life here. . The part where i'm nattering is about fifteen minutes in.

I think that the entrepreneur's ability to motivate themselves to get up every morning and bash on with their idea is one of the big factors that separates the ideas that work from the ones that don't. It took Dyson hundreds of attempts at building the dual cyclone before he eventually came up with his now world famous vacuum cleaner. A lot of people wouldn't have been able to motivate themselves to get up every day and think about vacuum cleaners.

I've managed to motivate myself to get up every morning for almost six years and think about jam; mostly because I love the stuff and also since I have been able to always think in terms of where i'm aiming to get in the long run. It doesn't matter if today doesn't work out too good, as long as everything on the whole is moving towards where I want to go; transforming the world of jam!

Become a fan of SuperJam on FaceBook!

There has been a 'SuperJam' group on Facebook for some time, created by one of our most adoring fans.

I decided that it would be good to create an 'official' SuperJam page on Facebook, for our fans to show their love and for us to be able to keep everyone up to date with our upcoming events (like SuperJam Tea Parties), competitions and news.

You can upload your own pictures with your favorite SuperJam in an exotic place, comment on ideas for new products and encourage your friends to become a part of the SuperJam movement!

To have a look at our Facebook page and become a fan if you are a user of the site,

click here!

A gigantic toaster made out of...

Toast!

I recently came across this work of art, which is currently housed at the Modern Art Gallery of Buenos Aires. It is constructed from an incredible 2,500 slices of toast (which took several friends with their toasters a few days to make..), all toasted for different lengths of time. The overall piece is 5m by 4.5m and you can read more about it here .

Tea Cosy of the Week....

As part of The SuperJam Tea Parties , we've been receiving donations of hand-knitted tea cosies. This pom pom masterpiece was knitted by one of the Edinburgh CSV volunteers. You can check out their website here to find out about volunteering opportunities in your area.

Feel free to whip out your knitting needles and create a tea cosy for the cause, we'll feature it on the blog and send you a whole bunch of SuperJam goodies...