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By: Kate Davies Designs March 31, 2023March 31, 2023 knitting, photography, reading, writingAnne Whitehead, aurora, cyanotype, depression, Felicity Ford, Jenny Odell, landscape, photography, reading, Yarnadelic Remixes 0.16 Comments

Taking stock

a time to pause and tie up loose ends

Thoughtful design

like the human body, knitting is infinitely adaptable

By: Kate Davies Designs March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 amazing knitters, design, disability, knitting, writingamazing knitters, disabilty, embodiment, GPA, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, knitting, Lisa Payne, writing39 Comments

knitting through change

Lisa Payne shares the story of how knitting became a lifeline for her body and sense of self.

By: Kate Davies Designs March 6, 2023 allover club, publishingallover, book, publishing18 Comments

a quick note

Allover is here!

By: Kate Davies Designs February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 dogs, landscape, photography, walking, Wester Rossdog, dogs, landscape, photography, Scotland, walk, walking, Wester Ross28 Comments

Mellon Udrigle

of words and sounds

By: Kate Davies Designs February 25, 2023February 25, 2023 mental health, photographybipolar, depression, mental health, mental illness56 Comments

Sisyphus on the beach

rolling with it

By: Kate Davies Designs February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 allover club, color, colour, ootlier, photographycolor, colour, landscape, light, ootlier, photography, Tom13 Comments

white balance

Tom shares some photographic tips for keeping colours “true”

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.

Taking stock

By: Kate Davies Designs March 31, 2023March 31, 2023

knitting, photography, reading, writingAnne Whitehead, aurora, cyanotype, depression, Felicity Ford, Jenny Odell, landscape, photography, reading, Yarnadelic Remixes 0.16 Comments

a time to pause and tie up loose ends

Thoughtful design

like the human body, knitting is infinitely adaptable

knitting through change

By: Kate Davies Designs March 16, 2023March 16, 2023

amazing knitters, design, disability, knitting, writingamazing knitters, disabilty, embodiment, GPA, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, knitting, Lisa Payne, writing39 Comments

Lisa Payne shares the story of how knitting became a lifeline for her body and sense of self.

Allover is published!

Allover is OUT!

a quick note

By: Kate Davies Designs March 6, 2023

allover club, publishingallover, book, publishing18 Comments

Allover is here!

Mellon Udrigle

By: Kate Davies Designs February 27, 2023February 27, 2023

dogs, landscape, photography, walking, Wester Rossdog, dogs, landscape, photography, Scotland, walk, walking, Wester Ross28 Comments

of words and sounds

Sisyphus on the beach

By: Kate Davies Designs February 25, 2023February 25, 2023

mental health, photographybipolar, depression, mental health, mental illness56 Comments

rolling with it

white balance

By: Kate Davies Designs February 24, 2023February 24, 2023

allover club, color, colour, ootlier, photographycolor, colour, landscape, light, ootlier, photography, Tom13 Comments

Tom shares some photographic tips for keeping colours “true”

styling colour

By: Kate Davies Designs February 19, 2023February 19, 2023

allover club, color, colour, photography, style, stylingallover, color, colour, design, knitting, photography, styling19 Comments

working with the weather

A joy o’ creation

By: Kate Davies Designs February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

allover club, books, creativity, design, Kate Davies Designs, making, poetrybook, color, colour, colourwork, creativity, design, making, stranded colourwork36 Comments

making “da colours and patterns agree”

How to play with colour

vive la resistance!

grey area

the colour of questions

Colour by Ella

Shetland shades sing in harmony in the work of Ella Gordon

the man in the white suit

Ealing’s impossible dream of the cloth that lasts forever

colour confidence

Flora Collingwood-Norris talks colour

lady in a green dress

the shifting fortunes of a changeable colour