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Focus on… BOW FIDDLE YARNS

long to ditch the day job and start a second career as a hand-dyer or yarn producer, but not many actually make the break. Louise Davidson, however, made the big decision to embark on a different career path, after receiving a cancer diagnosis three years ago. “It was the definitely the nudge I needed to follow my dream,” Louise explains. The handdyed yarn company she set up, Bow Fiddle Yarns, was named after an iconic rock formation on Scotland’s Moray

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