Granny’s Fairisle Yellow - Handmade Shetland Lampshade

This pattern is from the fair isle ganzie (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 blue, white, grey and yellow. She wanted to use pink, but I was going through a phase of not feeling very girly when she made it. Now as an 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 102nd birthday.

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