beverley dott design

A place where I record my ideas and tips for fair isle knitting or stranded knitting with real Shetland wool and other natural fibers. Originally from Hertfordshire, I moved to Glasgow in 1996. I met my husband in 2001 and we now live in Perthshire with our two teenage children. A diagnosis of MS in 2008 led to the end of a 16-year career in the telecommunications industry. Over time, I found that knitting was good therapy for my symptoms and began to experiment with fair isle knitting. I drew on the creative and artistic skills that I had gained from my days at college and started to experiment with different colours and patterns. After winning a competition run by Jamieson & Smith in 2017 for a second year, I received enough encouragement from friends to have a go at writing knitting patterns. Since then, I have published a few of my own patterns and i am lucky enough to have had some of my designs published by others.