colour – KDD & Co

knitting (and fitting) colourwork socks

how might a colourwork sock differ from one knitted in plain stockinette?

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

Oa my!

Kate’s favourite outdoor pullover gets an Oa-verhaul

the thaw

Rebecca Osborn shares a beautiful design, inspired by her place in the Canadian Arctic

make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

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

Green Shoots mittens

By: KDD January 29, 2021March 21, 2021

colour, design, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, patternsdesign, foxglove, free download, Green Shoots Mittens, Green Shoots Tam, Milarrochy Tweed, mittens, pattern, stranded colourwork54 Comments

A jolly design for January

Friday is pattern reveal day, and I have a brand new sweater design to show you! I’m a huge fan of the arched Selbu motifs which are most often traditionally used on gloves and mittens and you’ll see the long-standing influence of these motifs on my design work in hats like Richard the Roundhead, or…

grey and white

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…

green shoots

By: KDD January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

colour, design, fairisle, knitting, seasonalcolour, colouwork, design, foxglove, hat, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, stockiemuir, tam21 Comments

I think the month of January – and perhaps particularly this January – often seems rather dark. These are certainly dark days for many of us around the world, but there are some visible green shoots, improving prospects, and the hope of brighter days ahead. I wanted my first design of 2021 to speak to…

two-shade Sterntaucher

By: KDD January 7, 2021January 7, 2021

colour, design, Kate Davies Designs, kits, steeks10 Years in the making, cardigan, colourway, construction, design, finishing, knitting, palette, pockets, steek, Sterntaucher12 Comments

When we are working on a collection, Mel and I often knit several samples of a single design. This not only allows us to test and hone the pattern instructions (for maximum knit-ability, and knitterly-ness) but means we get to see how a design appears in alternate colourways. For Sterntaucher, we thought it would be…