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Netty moved to the Isle of Lewis in 2006 to take up a kiltmaking apprenticeship. After two years, she started her own business and explored using locally woven Harris Tweed in her designs. This led to a number of commissions and displays, including at Norton & Sons, Savile Row, and through this contemporary kilt production for fashion designer Christopher Kane. After fifteen years of working on a self-employed basis, Netty started teaching part-time Fashion Design at the local higher education college. Since then, she has continued her kiltmaking and garment design business, but on a reduced scale, whilst also fulfilling the role of board member with Applied Arts Scotland, project managing national and international craft-focused projects, and, recently, becoming editor of the community newspaper – Fios. An area Netty has developed over the past twenty years is usung the wool form her families flock of Hebridean Sheep to be washed, cardded and spun in to weaving yarn at Uist Wool. This yarn has then been woven into Harris Tweed by a local weaver.