Bonnie Isle Hat - In Lorna’s Garden

Linda Shearer has been named as Patron of Shetland Wool Week 2022 and her beautiful design Bonnie Isle Hat is now available - and I am delighted to be able to offer kits for it!

The pattern is available to download free of charge on the Shetland Wool Week website or an extended printed version is available to purchase from them  I will therefore not be providing a printed version in your kit

Each kit contains 

6 x 25g balls of Jamiesons of Shetland Spindrift wool in an organza drawstring bag 

Linda says: ““My hat design is named after the nickname for Whalsay, the ‘Bonnie Isle’. Living on an island means the sea is ever present in our lives. All the men in my family have worked on or near the sea. But although the ‘Bonnie Isle’ hat has a nautical theme, the patterns mean much more. The chain in the rib represents the link between us all during Shetland Wool Week; and the anchor, a common motif in Fair Isle knitting, symbolises a sense of keeping grounded, connected to what matters most, and able to cope with life’s challenges. The crown, a circle, is to me a spinning wheel and a tribute to my mother Ina Irvine. A prolific spinner and knitter, she was my inspiration.”