color – KDD & Co

all the colours

By: KDD May 10, 2021May 10, 2021

color, colour, creativity, kits, knitting, Milarrochy Tweedcolor, colour, creativity, Dathan, Dathan hap, Dathan pullover, experimentation, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, shades9 Comments

New shades for the Dathan pullover and hap.

an airy sweater

Mel thinks she’s knitted herself a sweater but Kate has other ideas

make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

Kate talks to Flora Collingwood-Norris about mending, Scottish islands, and how colour makes you feel

Hello, everyone! Thanks so much for your comments on yesterday’s post (which if you enjoy on-screen knits as much as I do I suggest you go and read!) I want to say an especial thanks to Davina for the link to the top 118 Twin Peaks knits (I personally have a thing for no72, though…

kodak portra 160

By: KDD May 24, 2020May 24, 2020

color, colour, People MAKE Glasgow, photographycolour, film, kodak, lartigue, making, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, process, Shetland Oo14 Comments

Hello everyone. Tom here with a post about my new favourite colour film, Kodak Portra 160. What I find really exciting about the discipline of photography is that despite the advancement of technologies available, access to old techniques remains, meaning that the rich and complex history of photography continues to be available for us to…

Yorlin

By: KDD May 22, 2020May 22, 2020

color, colour, design, Milarrochy Tweed, yarncardigan, cowslip, design, Lace, Milarrochy Tweed, yarn, yellow, yellowhammer, yorlin62 Comments

Good morning! When I sketched this yellow cardigan in my notebook towards the beginning of the year, it was with the thought that I might get to wear it, with a favourite dress, at the wedding of my friends, Briony and Will. Like many couples in similar situations, Will and Briony have had to change…

ends

By: KDD May 14, 2020

color, colour, making, process, textiles, yarnends, knitting, making, process, yarn50 Comments

I sometimes feel that I’m unusual in my love of ends. As a project draws to completion, and especially if it has involved a lot of different shades, I really look forward to sorting all the ends out. I don’t find this process onerous. It’s just a question of setting aside enough time and being…

Ardnamurchan Seavaiger

By: KDD April 17, 2020April 17, 2020

color, colour, design, knitting, photographyardnamurchan, color, colour, design, knitting, photography41 Comments

Good morning! Something new to show to you today – our latest shade of Milarrochy Tweed. Dyed to a beautifully saturated hue of blue-y green, this shade is enlivened by tweedy twists and flecks of pale pink and paler green. It’s a deep, bold colour – almost the opposite of the spectrum from our other…

brilliant corners

Morning, everyone! Today I’m introducing a new hat, and a new shade of Milarrochy Tweed. First, the hat, which, just like the yoke of my Land o’ Cakes cardigan, is worked in variations of 2×2 corrugated rib and which, just like that pattern, I designed on the hoof, experimenting with shade combinations and rhythms in…

Coofle

By: KDD March 27, 2020March 27, 2020

color, colour, design, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, yarn, YOKES!colourwork, coofle, jumper, knitting, pullover, stranded colourwork, sweater, weaving, yoke40 Comments

This is a very cheerful sweater And to accompany it, I’m wearing the most cheering pair of shoes I own. . . Yes, even someone with a dropped foot and appalling balance can gad about in these ridiculous ruby slippers! Back to the sweater, whose name is Coofle: an old Scots word for a puzzle,…