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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.

Serkinet

By: Kate Davies Designs September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

creativity, design, making, processcardigan, creativity, design, knitting, making, process, sark, Serkinet24 Comments

on the additional labour of cardigans

Smookie

a hand-knitted smock for autumn

Introducing SARK

All about our brand new book!

forthcoming . . .

By: Kate Davies Designs September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

books, photography, publishingallover, aurora, book, club, design, knitting, publishing, sark, West Highland Way17 Comments

not long to wait . . .

migration

By: Kate Davies Designs September 13, 2022September 13, 2022

birds, photographybirds, carbeth, home, housemartin, housemartins, nature, photography17 Comments

a farewell, until next spring

haidd garw girdle cakes

By: Kate Davies Designs September 11, 2022September 11, 2022

baking, food, History, recipebake stone, baking, bere, bere flour, beremeal, food, food history, girdle, griddle, oakden, recipe, welsh cakes13 Comments

Welsh cakes, girdle baked with beremeal

cup of tea and bere loaf

a simple tea loaf, baked with bere

Eilean nan Gobhar

Feral goats at Carradale

the turning year

A productive summer

Forêts Paisibles

By: Kate Davies Designs August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

My Placedesign, forest, forests, forets paisibles, Justyna Haberkowa, knitting, My Place, pattern, peaceable forests, slipped stitches11 Comments

Peaceable forests inspire an innovative hat

All dressed in yellow

how our attitudes to colour are bound up with the stories we tell ourselves

Garden hat

a beautiful garden-inspired hat that seems as much grown as it is made

Islay sights

returning to one of our favourite places

barefoot on Big Strand

By: Kate Davies Designs July 29, 2022

textilesBeach, Big Strand, coast, Islay, landscape, photography, Scotland, walking15 Comments

big skies, bare feet

Monk’s Belt Hat

Hand-knitting and hand-weaving speak eloquently to one another in the beautiful work of Janet Bowen

A swim in Loch Indaal

By: Kate Davies Designs July 26, 2022

dogs, Islay, landscape, photography, Scotland, swimmingBobby, Bran, dogs, Islay, Loch Indaal, Scotland, swim, swimming15 Comments

A refreshing dip on a sunny day