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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.

Colour and feeling

Designing from the heart with brilliant Janine Bajus

Magenta matters

the shade that soaks up meaning

a year in knitting

By: Kate Davies Designs December 23, 2022December 23, 2022

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Celebrating the colourful, creative labour of the KDD knitting team

A creative year

thank you for being there through 2022

Carrot

a tale of palate and palette

The colours of Norwegian knitting

Eli Leistad introduces us to colourful combinations, old and new

Wilson green

Colour at work

Colour at the woolbrokers

a symphony of Shetland shades

goodbye, dear friend

By: Kate Davies Designs December 1, 2022December 1, 2022

Bruce, Brucebruce332 Comments

We had to say goodbye to Bruce yesterday

Tressa Weidenaar

Tressa’s beautifully balanced work, inspired by her Navajo culture and landscape

the money of colour

What might it mean to own a colour?

The problematic race to the POP

Is it a kind of quick-fix magic? or a concept that has got too big for its boots?

how to see a rainbow

By: Kate Davies Designs November 16, 2022November 18, 2022

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the optical phenomenon with important resonances of joy, hope, and solidarity

Woolly Originals

place, pattern and colour combine in beautiful, original design

Chevreul’s simultaneous contrast

The innovative yarn dyer who changed the world of colour

Terri Laura talks colour

colour personalities and practical steps to plan a pallette