craft – KDD & Co

meet, make, collaborate

creative, collective and protective acts of making

Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

contemporary bluestockings, Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

behind the mask

accepting that not everything works out is key to the (slow) creative process

out of the woods

Outi Kater introduces a wonderful design inspired by Finnish childhood winters and restorative woodland spaces

zwiebelmuster

Nicole Wagler tells us about eighteenth-century porcelain and her sense of place in Meissen

the thaw

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

my McRostie forever bag

By: KDD October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

craft, Kate Davies, knitting, making, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, textilesbag, Clydesdales, craft, Glasgow, handbag, leather, leatherwork, making, McRostie15 Comments

Today we released the Evendoon Cardigan – the third pattern in our 10 Years in the Making Club (come and join us for three months of knitting fun!) I really enjoyed styling this cardigan with my beautiful Mull Bag, which was made for me a wee while ago by Colin Campbell of McRostie: one of…

Square Share

A little over a year ago I travelled to Reading for a confab with my friend Felix. We’d had an idea to work on a project together with our mutual friend and colleague, Mel, and wanted to thrash things out. By the time I was heading north again, we’d come up with a plan: to…

Knitting, creativity, mental health.

By: KDD May 22, 2019May 28, 2019

craft, creativity, knitting, mental healthcraft, creativity, knitting, mental health, Sarah Desmarais126 Comments

I have been thinking a lot over the past week about the difficulties of talking about the mental health “benefits” of a craft like knitting. There’s a lot of really interesting research about crafts and mental health about right now, but I often have problems with the way such research is publicly communicated or presented.…

croft, craft, creativity

One of the many things I really like about the communities and cultures of crofting is their distinctive effect on the way people work. What I mean is this: in towns and cities, jobs tend to become more and more specialised, people do what they do within smaller and smaller categories, individual work occurs in…

making stuff (at Lockies)

One thing you can say about knitting: it really makes you think about the many different processes that producing textiles involve. For example, prior to becoming an obsessive knitter, I had never really considered blocking a woollen garment (with water or with steam) . . . . . . nor had I understood what a…

Helen Robertson

If you’ve read my introduction to The Book of Haps then you’ll already have come across Helen Robertson – a Shetland artist and craftswoman whose work I deeply admire. Working with silver wire and other precious materials, Helen has developed a uniquely thoughtful aesthetic which celebrates, commemorates and reflects upon Shetland’s history and heritage –…

Pop-up fair

By: KDD September 24, 2015

craft, Edinburgh, events, Fair Isle, knittingEdinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Repository and self aid society, treasure trove19 Comments

Are you in Edinburgh this weekend? If so, can I encourage you to pop along to the pop-up fair which is being held by my friends at the Royal Edinburgh Repository and Self Aid Society on Saturday? I’ve mentioned the Society here many times, and as you know, it exists to provide financial support to…