books – KDD & Co

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”

forthcoming . . .

By: Kate Davies Designs September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

books, photography, publishingallover, aurora, book, club, design, knitting, publishing, sark, West Highland Way17 Comments

not long to wait . . .

twenty titles

It’s the launch day of our twentieth book!

the breaking up of the bluestocking club

the club is over, but there’s the book to come!

inkling is out

By: Kate Davies Designs May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

books, creativity, Kate Davies Designs, making, publishing, textilesbooks, creativity, design, inkling, knitting, making, Milarrochy Tweed, publishing, work9 Comments

The Inkling book is published!

two new projects

News about Inkling, and The Bluestocking Club

black teacher

Celebrating the work of a trailblazing black British woman writer

other people’s stories

On time, memory, and what it means to tell someone else’s story.

mend

We celebrate the new edition of Wheesht with this essay exploring the creative work of mending and Celia Pym’s inspiring practice

the closing year

By: Kate Davies Designs December 18, 2020December 18, 2020

books, design, Kate Davies Designs, publishing, review, seasonal10 Years in the making, colour moves, design, Glasgow, knitting, publishing, Warm Hands, writing33 Comments

As the first copies of our 10 Years in the Making book arrived in the KDD warehouse yesterday, I thought (not for the first time) about what a very weird year it has been. We published four brand new titles . . . . . .and created 23 new patterns – the majority of which…

a chat with Misa Hay

There is no getting away from the fact that, whatever business you are in, this year has been a very weird one. Having to change the nature and direction of what you are doing – often very rapidly – is never an easy thing, and this year there have been so many of those changes.…

a few nice things

There is a lot going on here behind the scenes (I’ve been writing a book and designing a new collection with our brand new yarn) and I’ve not found myself with much spare time for blog posting . . . but in amongst all the hard work I’ve been enjoying some nice things, such as…

Marianne North

By: Michelle June 23, 2020June 23, 2020

art, books, History, painting, textilesbig pic, botanical illustration, flora, Kew, Marianne North, Michelle Payne, plants, travel27 Comments

Hello, it’s Michelle here, with a post about Marianne North (1830–1890), a Victorian traveller and nature artist who left an extraordinary legacy. Painting 684. North painted the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) from a garden specimen in Java. For almost 140 years North’s paintings have been on permanent display in the gallery she established at the…

slowdown

By: Kate Davies Designs June 16, 2020June 16, 2020

books, criticism, gardening, landscape, review, stroke, vegetables, walkingbooks, garden, reading, slowness, sustainability30 Comments

Hello! how are you all doing? My migraines have been of the annoyingly recurrent / chronic kind of late, and I’ve been having to take things very easy – especially over the past week or so, during which my vision has been very skewy and I’ve had to limit my screen time. Not being glued…