2026 Festival Designs
Download the Festival Design Patterns!
To celebrate the this year’s The Woolly Good Gathering, we hosted a design competition to find one knit design and one crochet design to feature as our 2026 Festival Designs!
Maddie Harvey and Yessabett Bueno have each created a lovely ‘community’ themed mini-shawl design. So what are you waiting for?
Download the patterns for free… there’s plenty of time to make your own version to wear at the festival! We can’t wait to see what you make.
Previous festival designs
Sophia Louisa Shawl (2024)
Designed by Solveigh Lass-Evans
Named for Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake, one of the ‘Edinburgh Seven’ who were the first group of matriculated female students at any British university. In 1878 Jex-Blake became Edinburgh’s first female doctor and she devoted her life to the advancement of women’s rights in the field of medicine. She set up a clinic, providing medical care for poorer women and offered practical experience for young female doctors. The clinic expanded and was named the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women (later named the Brunsfield Hospital), Scotland’s first hospital staffed entirely by women.
Yarn
Iolair Yarn Gigha, Fingering 4ply weight, 50% NSW merino, 50% silk, 400m / 437yd per 100g
OR
Zakami Yarns Corriedale, Fingering 4ply weight, 100% NSW British Corriedale, 400m / 437yd per 100g
800m / 874yds
Janina Maria Shawl (2024)
Designed by Alison Mayne
Named after Janina Maria Sokołowska, the first woman to qualify as a Veterinary Surgeon in 1945 from The Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in Edinburgh. Born in Lwów, Poland in 1914, Janina Maria experienced terrible trauma through WW2, exile to Siberia and conscription as a veterinarian nurse. After release from captivity and working with the Polish Army, she worked as a veterinarian and medical nurse across Europe and the Middle East, eventually helping to convoy Polish refugee women to Scotlandbefore continuing her studies at The Royal Dick.
Yarn
Iolair Yarn Gigha, Fingering 4ply weight, 50% NSW merino, 50% silk, 400m / 437yd per 100g
OR
Zakami Yarns Corriedale, Fingering 4ply weight, 100% NSW British Corriedale, 400m / 437yd per 100g
400 (800)m / 437 (874)yd