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Knitsonik – and friends

chatting about colour, joy, and collaboration with the inimitable KNITSONIK

By: KDD September 29, 2022 design, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, publishingbook, design, knitting, ooskit, publishing, sark, second edition5 Comments

thank you

Sark second edition in the offing

By: KDD September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 My Placecolourwork, design, designers, designing, knitting, Lucy Razzall, makers, making, material culture, Milarrochy Tweed, My Place, Operculum, pattern, stranded colourwork, tam27 Comments

Operculum

Lucy Razzall’s hat celebrates everyday design and the thing-ness of place

By: KDD September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 creativity, design, making, processcardigan, creativity, design, knitting, making, process, sark, Serkinet24 Comments

Serkinet

on the additional labour of cardigans

Smookie

a hand-knitted smock for autumn

Introducing SARK

All about our brand new book!

By: KDD September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 books, photography, publishingallover, aurora, book, club, design, knitting, publishing, sark, West Highland Way16 Comments

forthcoming . . .

not long to wait . . .

By: KDD September 13, 2022September 13, 2022 birds, photographybirds, carbeth, home, housemartin, housemartins, nature, photography17 Comments

migration

a farewell, until next spring

shop

Step on over to the KDD shop to find our exclusive own-brand yarns, beautifully produced books, patterns for hand-knitting, ready-to-wear knits, and photographic prints

about KDD

Founded by Kate Davies, we are a small creative company, publishing beautiful books, manufacturing our own woolly yarns, and creating wonderfully wearable designs for handknitters. We are based in the west of Scotland.

Tutorials

Need help with a technique? We have handy tutorials to assist you with everything from cutting your first steek to constructing a hap stretcher.

Knitsonik – and friends

chatting about colour, joy, and collaboration with the inimitable KNITSONIK

thank you

By: KDD September 29, 2022

design, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, publishingbook, design, knitting, ooskit, publishing, sark, second edition5 Comments

Sark second edition in the offing

Operculum

By: KDD September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

My Placecolourwork, design, designers, designing, knitting, Lucy Razzall, makers, making, material culture, Milarrochy Tweed, My Place, Operculum, pattern, stranded colourwork, tam27 Comments

Lucy Razzall’s hat celebrates everyday design and the thing-ness of place

Serkinet

By: KDD September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

creativity, design, making, processcardigan, creativity, design, knitting, making, process, sark, Serkinet24 Comments

on the additional labour of cardigans

Smookie

a hand-knitted smock for autumn

Introducing SARK

All about our brand new book!

forthcoming . . .

By: KDD September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

books, photography, publishingallover, aurora, book, club, design, knitting, publishing, sark, West Highland Way16 Comments

not long to wait . . .

migration

By: KDD September 13, 2022September 13, 2022

birds, photographybirds, carbeth, home, housemartin, housemartins, nature, photography17 Comments

a farewell, until next spring

haidd garw girdle cakes

By: KDD September 11, 2022September 11, 2022

baking, food, History, recipebake stone, baking, bere, bere flour, beremeal, food, food history, girdle, griddle, oakden, recipe, welsh cakes13 Comments

Welsh cakes, girdle baked with beremeal

cup of tea and bere loaf

a simple tea loaf, baked with bere

Eilean nan Gobhar

Feral goats at Carradale

the turning year

A productive summer

Forêts Paisibles

By: KDD August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

My Placedesign, forest, forests, forets paisibles, Justyna Haberkowa, knitting, My Place, pattern, peaceable forests, slipped stitches11 Comments

Peaceable forests inspire an innovative hat

All dressed in yellow

how our attitudes to colour are bound up with the stories we tell ourselves

Garden hat

a beautiful garden-inspired hat that seems as much grown as it is made

Islay sights

returning to one of our favourite places