After having no agricultural shows for the last 2 years I was so looking forward to going the the Voe Show this year. It’s the first in the Shetland show calendar and always the first Saturday … Read More
Voe Show 2022
Tag: Fair Isle Knitting
Benefits of a Knitting Belt
People often wonder how a knitting belt works and what the benefits are to the knitter. Firstly they are used along with long double pointed needles or DPNs. One end of the DPN is pushed … Read More
Preparing for Fair Isle
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
A Taste of my Fair Isle Knitting Talk
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