Di Gilpin
THE SPIRIT of Scotland infuses everything that Di Gilpin does: the hand-knitting patterns and ready-to-wear fashions that she designs, the yarns she produces, the workshops she teaches, and the community projects she supports. Di fell in love with Scotland during a visit in the early 1980s, and today she works from her design studio in Fife, where she celebrates the knitting traditions of her adopted land.
“I moved to the Isle of Skye in 1983, following a really traumatic event which left me with what now is called PTSD,” Di recalls. “Knitting became a way of life from my croft and small studio in an old Mission Hall, which I cycled to every day. I’d been knitting since I was a
