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Pulling out your favourite knits each year is almost an early Christmas present – here are our favourites

This particular Fair Isle waistcoat was the result of a journey I made in November, via sleeper train to Inverness, in order to work with the team at renowned outfitters Campbell’s of Beauly. We then drove a further two hours to a woollen mill at the most northern tip of Aberdeenshire. To say I was in heaven is an understatement. For this is one of many homes of Scottish knitwear, with all its colour, tradition and talent. Designing in a pandemic gives everyone renewed vigour, it seems. The c...