A fair-isle cardigan my Granny Willa Knitted
I am relatively new to knitting fair-isle, I am fortunate enough to come from Shetland where we are taught how to knit throughout primary school. Since dat was a peerie while ago all I could remember was to cast on, knit, pearl and cast off so I set myself the challenge to knit fair-isle.
My Mam is currently knitting a fair-isle jumper for my sister this is her Makin' Bag.
In a previous blog I explained how my grandmother and mother knitted fair-isle and I have many memory's of both sitting knitting and chatting as if knitting was second nature and they didn't need to even look at it.
I would love to be able to carry on this tradition, I know my granny would have loved the fact that I had started fair-isle and it is a shame that I never got to do it with her.
Me and my sister Emma wi' Mam and Granny
My first project was the fingerless gloves, once I got confident with them I set my self the challenge to knit a Shetland Tam (kind of like a beret) and socks.
Well after much discussion about whether or not the wool brokers is open on a Saturday I at least got my sister persuaded to drive past and check. To my delight it was, I meant business going straight to the patterns then the wool (ooops...was a little too excited and forgot the 7th ball of wool)
Here are links to both patterns...
I discovered that Jamiesons & Smiths have a book called
'Knit Real Shetland' this is definitely going on my Santie (Santa Claus) wish list.
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