Granny's Collection - Handmade Shetland-Inspired Gifts and Home Decor | Julie Williamson Design

The ‘Granny’s Collection’ by Julie Williamson Designs pays tribute to the artist’s beloved grandmother and her passion for knitting. This collection features handcrafted items, including lampshades and tea towels, showcasing unique designs that reflect Shetland’s rich knitting heritage. Each product is designed and made in Shetland or within the UK, adding a warm, traditional touch to your home decor.

Granny’s Fairisle 

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 of blue, white, grey and yellow she wanted to use pink but I was going though a phase of not feeling very girly when she made it but now as a 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 102 birthday.

Sunday Tuy awer at Granny n Da’s (tea over at grandma and grandads)

This design is inspired by the Sunday evenings we spent over at da ald folk for wir tea, granny had a whistling tyettle (teapot) on the Rayburn she always liked stewed tea, Ald Da would sit in but (Sittingroom) next to the fire and com through for his tea when the clock chimed tea time, I would often be made pancakes & Da would always have the sayin ‘pancakes and doodly’ i asked him one day what doodly’ was he laughed and said ‘am awer 100yrs ald n I duno tyeen’ so to this day I have still never found out what the doodly was?!

Tak Dee Sock (take your knitting)

Design is inspired by my late granny who was rarely without her makkin (knitting) I was her 29th grand bairn and I got one of her handmade fair isle jumpers, the pattern can be seen in the background of this design. When her sight started to deteriorate and she could no longer do fair isle patterns at 101yrs old she still managed to hand knit socks for her ever growing family. My memories of Granny are of her sitting quite composed before the fire makin apa her sock while watching coronation street.