seasonal – KDD & Co

snow day

By: Kate Davies Designs February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

dogs, landscape, photography, seasonal, West Highlandsdogs, landscape, photography, snow, weather, winter21 Comments

brrrr. . .

reflective

By: Kate Davies Designs October 3, 2021October 3, 2021

knitting, mental health, photography, seasonalAutumn, bipolar, knitting, landscape, making, mental health, photography, productivity, seasonal, work27 Comments

in-between things

an airy sweater

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

Winter’s End

Bonnie Sennot finds inspiration at Winter’s End.

the thaw

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

Na Séasúir

Mary O’Shea introduces a glorious circular scarf whose colours turn with her, through the seasons

green shoots

By: Kate Davies Designs 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…

moon walk

By: Kate Davies Designs December 30, 2020

landscape, photography, Scotland, seasonal, walkingblue hour, landscape, moon, photography, Scotland, seasons, walk, walking, winter36 Comments

Hello! We are currently enjoying a very quiet and relaxing winter break. In the absence of any socialising, this has largely involved good food, lots of films and books, knitting (me), creating digital soundscapes from ordinary household objects (Tom) and crisp long walks (both of us, plus dogs). After an extended period of hard work,…

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…

working through winter

By: Kate Davies Designs October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

landscape, seasonal, writingAutumn, bipolar, depression, mental health, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, winter, writing51 Comments

It is that time of year in Scotland when the clocks are about to “go back” (when our time reverts to GMT, rather than BST). My bipolar has always had seasonal triggers (generally in very early spring, and then following the autumn equinox) and for me, as for so many other people, this time of…

this oak is

By: Kate Davies Designs July 5, 2020July 5, 2020

landscape, photography, poetry, seasonal, walking, writinglandscape, nature, oak, oaks, photography, poem, poetry, seasons, trees, writing15 Comments

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been really struck by how colourful the oak trees I see on my morning walks are at this time of year, with their wild orangey-red foliage so different to the surrounding trees heavy green. So here’s a poem I wrote in my head about those oaks this morning. The…

weather

By: Kate Davies Designs March 2, 2018March 2, 2018

seasonalsnow, weather78 Comments

I know that to those of you who live in Canada, the US, and elsewhere that the noise that we are making on this small island about the current spell of wintery weather might seem a bit . . . histrionic. But this much snow is unusual for here. For those who were thinking of…

Circannuam

By: Kate Davies Designs January 2, 2018May 28, 2019

Milarrochy Tweed, ootlier, photography, Scotland, seasonalcircannuam, milarrochy, Milarrochy Bay, Milarrochy tree, ootlier, photography51 Comments

Many of you will know how much I love the old, twisted oak tree that grows by Loch Lomond at Milarrochy Bay: indeed, I love it so much we named our new yarn after it! Over the past year, Tom has been photographing the tree from exactly the same position, in all seasons and all…