Happy Friday! Just a quick post today, as I wanted to show you this version of my Knowe design – one of the pieces from 10 Years in the Making that I seem to have worn most in recent months.
Is Knowe a snood, cowl, or a caplet? I don’t care what you call it, but on a cold day around here it does the job just fine!
Because of the choice of constructions in the pattern (which can be knitted top down or bottom up) Mel and I actually test knitted three separate versions of this design last summer. I immediately claimed two of the samples for my own wardrobe – the version that I’m wearing in the book . . .
and this one.
Quite apart from the fact that Daunder and Faded Overalls is a combination of shades with which I’m clearly currently quite obsessed, I’ve found I really enjoy wearing Knowe both outdoors and indoors on chilly days.
Knowe is designed in six sizes (measured around the top of your shoulders). It’s a quick, fun and super-useful knit, and if you’d like to make yourself one, I finally got around to adding kits in this colourway to the shop.
The other exciting news around here is that I had my first Covid jag a few days ago! Due to my stroke, I’m in an at risk group, and for the past year my life has been (in some respects) quite limited: for example, I’ve not been in a shop or petrol station or literally any interior / public space with any other people in it since our trip to Tighnabruaich last March. Things have not been hard for me: I’m really lucky to live in this wonderful place, to work from home, to be able to get outside every day and (most of all) to live with someone as supportive and caring as Tom. But I’m sure he’s going to appreciate having a wee break from the food shopping as soon as I’ve built up some antibodies!
Thanks to my local NHS for, as always, being brilliant.
KDD & Co 
These are all sorts of fabulous.
What level of knitting must you be at , do you think, to make one ?
I’m verging on intermediate (on a good day).
Stay safe & happy.
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the colourwork is of the simplest kind, Suzi – if you can knit in the round and knit simple colourwork you can make this!
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Yes, it feels so good to be vaccinated:-)!!! I have my second jab on Monday!!! Thank you Kate for your creativity. It is so much joy to be a part of your creative circle. Also, reading all postings – it’s such a warm wave of friendliness. Stay healthy and strong!!!
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So happy to hear you’ve had your first jag! Every time someone gets their vaccine is a moment for celebration! I received wool for Christmas that is begging to be a Knowe caplet. But I love this colour way! Hopefully, I can cast on soon.
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Kate, I’m so glad you’re “jagged” (part 1, anyway). I second the comment about how much color and light you have added to this year for me. Just before the pandemic, I had plans to spend two months in Castlebay in the southern Outer Hebrides with my teenaged son (no small jaunt from Boston) . It was a real sadness for me to miss that return to Scotland after two decades, but the virtual walks you shared were such a wonderful compensation! Your hills and fields and lochs lift my heart every time. So do my own real walks here in Concord, MA, many of which take me past Walden Pond and all of which remind me daily that I, too, have been incredibly lucky. Lucky to live in a place with forests in a body that can appreciate them, lucky to have a reliable de-stresser in knitting and walking, and lucky to have steady work that’s easy from home. Thanks for reminding me to focus on those things even as I work hard to help support those who are less lucky!
And about the capelet–why am I so frightened by this design? It looks so good on you! But I fear it would A) make me look dowdy (I’m halfway there already, alas), and B) it wouldn’t be warm enough if the wind is sneaking up my back. I’m curious what you think about what body types can really pull this off. . . ?
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OH THAT YELLOW!!! My fave ? So many. Glad you got your jag, got mine 2 weeks ago and no reaction..hip hip! I must be part hermitess as I have had no problem being at home, I do have to shop for myself but am careful!! And walks with doggers :)
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I am really pleased to hear you have had your ‘jag’. I look forward to having mine, hopefully late March. Yes ,thank you NHS.
Your blogs have inspired me, entertained me, challenged me, made me laugh, made me happy over this strange year. They are little bits of joy, along with walking my Girlies, Hettie and Dillie Dot.
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I’m rethinking my initial dislike of this…the ‘capelet’ word put me off, frankly. But I love it as a cowl, and as a snood outdoors! So I suppose lesson learned….never judge a pattern based on a word or a single photo.
And I just received my second vaccine a few hours ago (my MS giving me an ironic ‘advantage’) …so delighted that you are in process. It still means several months of caution, until things really calm down and there is a more general immunity. But there is light ahead! Stay well.
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Suddenly emails are coming in from WordPress can you change back to KDD again so we know who it isSent from Samsung Mobile on O2
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Hi Pam – we’ve fixed this problem – the next email should come from KDD as normal
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Thank you so much…I much prefer KDD to WordPress…..I was having that issue also.
And of course, your lovely cowl/capelet…is gorgeous. It looks cozy and easy to wear with so many outfits. Congratulations on getting Covid vac #1….YES, we WILL beat this monster !
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I will have my first shot on Sunday. I’m thinking to cast on a Knowe as a celebratory piece that will become a remembrance of a turning point. 💞
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Great to have gotten your first shot; mine was last week. So tell us, Kate, what pattern lurks beneath your Knowe in matching colors?
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that’s the YOLK yoke!
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I loved the geometric patterns of Knowe already, but this color combination sends it even higher.
Good news about the vaccination. Got my first last week – such a sense of relief. Best to you, Tom, and of course Bruce and Bobby.
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Kate, you have been with me almost every morning over this past year and have made my days more colorful and sustainable. As I knit the borders of your “Thistle” blanket (a 2-year project), I am reflecting on how much you have energized me during these days of hunkering-down and isolation.
It pleased me hugely to hear this morning that you had your fist Covid shot yesterday and can perhaps soon emerge into the world beyond your walking trails – which have sustained YOU, along with your creative work.
I have been inspired and enriched by your writings and creations and by Tom’s photos from far-away Ann Arbor, Michigan, and have been kept on-track through the darkness by my hand-work on my “Thistle.”
Love to you and all good wishes,
Sally Bund
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In a world, where everyone seem to fight over, who’s most to be pitied over the consequences of the pandemic, how refreshing it is, to hear someone say: ‘Things have not been hard for me.’
The cowl/capelet/snood is lovely too. Thank you!
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Delighted to hear that you’ve had your jag! I had mine a couple of weeks ago, and I am heartened that those antibodies will have started getting to work.
Though I’m not sure that I want to lug around the food shopping though I sort of should with a slightly younger, as yet un-jagged husband.
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I too have been shielding and like you no shopping etc for a year. Thanks to my amazing husband we have eaten well. Short outdoor walks and knitting many of your patterns has kept me going. Looking forward to spring and returning to a safer environment.
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yes indeed, Susan – roll on spring!
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Wonderful Knowe and I’m so glad about your vaccination!
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Hoorah for the NHS and here’s to the antibodies. I made the Knowe as a Christmas present for a friend in FO and Mooring which looked grand too. I’m with you though on the perfect pairing of daunder and FO.
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