Gansey Girl

I have two gansies.... a working fisherman's one and a dress one for going out.... the dress one is fully patterned and each family had a different design.... important on the working ones the fishermen wore, as often it was the only means to identify a body washed ashore.
My oldest gansey [in the Sutherland basic pattern] has been going for over twenty-five years and has had new cuffs and collar knitted in by the original knitter.... the dress one [in a Munro pattern] was a commission and is treated as a dress one, only ever worn when I am attending something special!!
The knitter lives in Norfolk and has collected the patterns of over 500 gansies from Norfolk to Shetland.... wherever the Silver Darlings swam.

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Never be afraid to talk about your techniques...
"Give a thousand photographers...
the same camera, lens and scene...
and you'll always get a thousand different takes!!"
Anon.