There’s also issues of cattle breeding, which means not all Fair Isle knits created on Shetland are made with wool from Shetland sheep. “It gets really complicated,” she said. “It’s a ...

This year’s guest speaker was Jane Bissett, who gave a humorous talk about her life as a shepherdess and the different breeds ...

A tall ship trip was start of a lifelong connection to the Fair Isle jumper for Lynne Coleman. Now she is reinventing it in cashmere.

The boys are all wearing v necked Fair Isle pattern tank tops with the girls in little hand knitted cardigans. The most popular shop for wool and knitting patterns in our area was Matthews of ...