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Julie Williamson Designs
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Illustrated coastal designs inspired by nostalgic life growing up in Shetland
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This tea towel pattern is from the fair isle gansey (jumper) that my granny hand knitted for me when she was in her 90s. I haven’t used the original colours from the ganzie but I love the shades she used of blue, white, grey and yellow she wanted to use pink but I was going though a phase of not feeling very girly when she made it but now as a adult I see her choice would have been even nicer. I am the youngest grand bairn of 29 and think I was also the last to get a fair isle handmade jumper while she was still able to see to knit the fair isle patterns. She did knit right up to her passing a few weeks before her 102 birthday.
Give a special shetland themed Christmas present this year 🎁
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Give a special shetland themed Christmas present this year 🎁
#christmaswrappingidea #christmasgift #shetlandgift #grannygift #knittinggift #shetlandknitting #shetlandislands
Inspiration for this design came one night when my daughter asked me to tell her a bed time story, earlier that day we had been down at da hoab (exposed seabed) which is one of my favourite places in whalsay, I told her about how her Auld Da (my dad) used to take me there for walks when I was peerie (small) but in da summer we had to avoid the tirricks (artic terns) nesting areas as they love to dive bomb your head, so Da used to take wild flowers usually dockens or hogweed and wave above his head for the diving tirricks to attack instead of trying to peck the top of his head. #shetland #handdrawn
