Debbie Bliss - Knitting Magazine 5 - Fall/Winter 2010

Fair Ilse

What better way to greet the new season than with a burst of colour! Banish grays and dreary hues, pick up your needles and knit yourself a new mood. With so much talk of knitting being dropped from the school curriculum in the Shetland Islands, I thought this would be the perfect time to seek out new designers who are reworking and reenergising the traditional Fairisle technique. Luckily for me, I saw Anna Wilkinson's work at a consumer show and promptly fell in love with her vibrant take on the classic patterning; I immediately commissioned two projects for "Scottish Eccentrics", one of which appears on the cover of the magazine.

by Debbie Bliss