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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 sustainable 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.

twinkle twinkle

By: KDD August 7, 2021August 7, 2021

knitting, memory, musicbluestocking, bluestockings, earworm, knitting, Mary Delany, melody, memory, music, socks, stocking, stranded colourwork, the brain28 Comments

a knitting earworm

sock of the week no. 11

fashion, innovation and stripey socks

stocking blocking

By: KDD July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

bluestockings, socks, tutorialblockers, blocking, bluestockings, knitting, making, sock blockers, sock blocking, sock knitting, socks, stocking blockers, stocking blocking, stockings21 Comments

a simple set of home-made blockers, for all your stocking blocking needs

sock of the week: no.10

the “everlasting stocking knitters” of Wales

I am Bran

By: KDD July 26, 2021July 26, 2021

beasties, Bran, dogsBob, Bran, bruce, dog training, dogs, labrador, labrador retriever, puppy, puppy training45 Comments

a few words from the new arrival

Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

contemporary bluestockings, Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

Sock of the week no.9

By: KDD July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

creativity, Scotland, Scottish textiles, socksBaird undersock, invention, inventor, John Logie Baird, Scotland, sock, socks, undersock8 Comments

The Baird Undersock

Sock of the week no. 8

By: KDD July 14, 2021July 14, 2021

poetry, sock of the week, socksOgden Nash, poetry, sock, sock of the week, socks, verse27 Comments

Woollen socks! Woollen socks!
Full of colour, full of clocks!

Oxford Bluestockings

By: KDD July 11, 2021July 11, 2021

bluestockings, feminism, friends, womenblogging, bluestockings, Felicity Ford, felix ford, feminism, friendship, knitting, Lara Clements, learning, liz ashdowne, oxford bluestockings10 Comments

contemporary bluestockings sharing their knitting, their learning and their feminism

blues out west

a palette and a sense of place

Bran & pals

By: KDD July 8, 2021July 8, 2021

beasties, Bruce, BruceBobby, Bran, bruce, dog, dogs, labrador, pet, pets, puppies, puppy47 Comments

a new addition to the household

sock of the week no.7

what might a pair of seventeenth-century stockings say about the body that once wore them?

knitting (and fitting) colourwork socks

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

sock of the week no. 6: clocks and socks

an image connecting the histories of eighteenth-century intimate apparel, government taxation, and the democratisation of timekeeping

Natalie Warner

Introducing a talented designer and her fascinating professional journey

sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters

Stockings which concealed the political message of a lost eighteenth-century cause.