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Step on over to the KDD shop to find our exclusive own-brand yarns, beautifully produced books, patterns for hand-knitting, ready-to-wear knits, and photographic prints

about KDD

Founded by Kate Davies, we are a small creative company, publishing beautiful books, manufacturing our own woolly yarns, and creating wonderfully wearable designs for handknitters. We are based in the west of Scotland.

tutorials

Need help with a technique? We have handy tutorials to assist you with everything from cutting your first steek to constructing a hap stretcher.

Picturing the Secret Coast

telling the story of a place with images

Henty-Creer tutorial

By: KDD March 27, 2022March 27, 2022

craft, design, embroidery, tutorialbarnacles, couching, embellishment, embroidery, lovikka, mittens, tutorial4 Comments

couched X’s and embroidered barnacles

Henty-Creer

how the dark waters of Loch Striven inspired a Secret Coast design

mooch

my new favourite outdoor sweater

historical memory

what do we call to mind about a place? Which local narratives deserve commemoration?

snow day

By: KDD February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

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

brrrr. . .

a half way point

thank you, Michael Hartley!

collaborative graft and being daft

By: KDD February 12, 2022February 25, 2022

art, creativity, making, workbilly preston, collaboration, creativity, interdependence, Louise Bourgeois, making, music, scottee, sesame street, the beatles, work13 Comments

making work together

an absorbing project

making something fun and meaningful

preparations

By: KDD January 8, 2022January 8, 2022

Argyll, Argyll's Secret Coast, landscapeArgyll, Argyll's Secret Coast, knitting, landscape, photography, Scotland, snow, winter40 Comments

getting ready for the club . . .

picturing Inveraray

looking at a made place

onward

beyond a challenging year

a postcard from Argyll

how do we look at a landscape when there might seem to be nothing to see?

now we are five

a word from Bruce

Loch Shiel

the ancient heart of a community

Carp-beth

By: KDD December 3, 2021December 3, 2021

design, knitting, twisted stitchescarbeth, carp-beth, design, knitting, Norah Gaughan, pullover, Thea Colman, twisted stitches26 Comments

a twist on an old favourite