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“The Christmas Carol jumper is a tribute to my favourite story”

When avid knitter and artist Denise Salway was encouraged by friends to enter Channel 4's TV show, ‘Kirstie's Handmade Christmas’ as a contestant, she decided to go for it, coming up with a fantastic idea to pay tribute to the wonderful mind of Charles Dickens by creating a knit inspired by ‘A Christmas Carol’.

“I was 14

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