Keeping It Creel : Knitting Workshops
Posted by CHARTS
Join CHARTS at Campbeltown Museum for a hands-on Keeping it Creel workshop with textile artist Kate Davies, exploring the town’s maritime knitting heritage while creating your own mini-gansey, using contemporary patterns designed by Kate with the option to work traditional stitches. Suitable for beginners and experienced knitters alike.
Fishing and knitting are closely intertwined in Kintyre, and generations of people in Campbeltown have created beautiful, original pullovers worn at sea. The Campbeltown gansey is an original form of maritime workwear and an important expression of local culture and identity. These workshops place gansey knitting within the wider context of the West Coast of Scotland’s maritime culture, celebrating history through practical making.
The workshop will begin with a short introduction to the gansey and its connection to Campbeltown’s maritime heritage, followed by a demonstration of materials and traditional techniques. The main body of the workshop will offer supported knitting time with guidance and advice throughout.
Dates and times
Saturday 7th February 2026
Adults workshop 10.30am to 12.30pm or 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Saturday 21st February 2026
Adults workshop 10.30am to 12.30pm or Family workshop 1.30pm to 3pm
Keeping it Creel is a Culture Heritage and Arts Assembly, Argyll and Isles (CHARTS) project, made possible by the Stafford Trust with further support from liveArgyll, Argyll and Bute Council, Creative Scotland, and Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
Campbeltown Museum, St John Street, Campbeltown, PA28 6BY,