Category: Fair Isle Knitting

Traditional Fair Isle knitting from Shetland

Preparing for Fair Isle

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Janette getting ready to board the 6 seater Islander plane, operated by Airtask from the Tingwall Airport.

Accommodation and Travel

Normally you have to book your summer accommodation and travel into Fair Isle the year before. But because of the pandemic travel restrictions, things were a bit different this year.  I was attracted to Fair Isle Knitting Holidays for obvious reasons! I wasn’t quite ready to delve … Read More

Knitting and walking Shetland

A Taste of my Fair Isle Knitting Talk

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Katie Deyell in her 80’s walking on the west side of Shetland, photo taken in 1950’s. Many thanks to the Deyell family for the use of the photo. Deyell family copyright

First of all Dornoch Fibre Festival

You may have seen I did a talk last month.  This was the … Read More