Designer Profile: Catriona McLaughlin

I create original, beautiful, handmade knitwear & accessories in Edinburgh, my home, and Scotland’s historic capital city. The majority of designs are created from soft felted Merino lambswool (spun in the UK), as well as other luxurious natural fibres.

After training in the beautiful Scottish Borders, I graduated in 2005 from the Heriot-Watt University School of Textiles (formerly the Scottish College of Textiles) in Galashiels with a BA Hons degree in Textile Design.

I specialised in knitted & constructed textiles and soon after finishing my studies, decided to continue designing and making handcrafted accessories by starting up my own label, WildCat Designs.

Image courtesy of Clare Dakin Photography.

Since then, my work has sold to Australia, USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and around the UK. I have also had WildCat Designs creations featured in several exhibitions at galleries within the UK - most recently at the New Ashgate Gallery Winter Contemporary Textiles exhibition in Farnham, Surrey.

WildCat Designs has continued to go from strength to strength and now incorporates WildKittens, a line of accessories for babies & children. Last year I also introduced PDF knitting patterns to my range.