Doric TV - Ethel Reid,(pt2)Gansey Knitter

Part 2 of Ethel Reid from the quaint fishing village of Pitullie, near Fraserburgh continues her story of the knitting tradition for the fishermen carried on for centuries in the N.E of Scotland .
Every village has its own unique pattern for knitting Gansey s , jumpers for their men who ventured to the harsh North Sea to provide a living for their families. It is said that if a man was lost overboard out at sea, he could be traced to his village by the pattern of his Gansey .
Ethel describes how as a young girl she has knitted things to do with the sea and incorporates these important aspects into the Gansey pattern. These unique designs aren’t contained in knitting patterns, they are creatively stored in the memory of these amazing fisherwomen and has been handed down from generation to generation.
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I seem to knit loose and so my smaller needles are the ones most often used. You want a fabric for wearing, not a net for letting air and water through ;). I hope you still have “something on the needles”! God bless ya, lovey

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Thank you , Jill

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Ah yes ... don’t look for “the big things”. In my mind, they ain’t nuthin’ at all ... enough to look for the good things.

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Thankyou for your lovely comments. , Jill