KDD & co

SHEDS one and two

By: KDD May 26, 2020May 26, 2020

Bruce, gardening, vegetablesbruce, garden, gardening, potatoes, shed, sheds, vegetables38 Comments

Hello, it is I, Bruce. Today I am here to tell you about SHED. If you don’t know the meaning of SHED, I can reveal it is a strange wooden place with a distinctive smell in which humans like to spend a lot of time, particularly at this time of year. Here there are two…

journal pages

By: KDD May 25, 2020May 25, 2020

creativity, design, Felicity Ford, journalingdesign, journal, journaling, process, sketching, stationery, washi tape28 Comments

I’m at that stage of developing a group of designs where I seem to be recording a lot of ideas and sketches in my journal. As I was working on something today, I looked back over a few of the spreads with ideas for the designs I’ve recently published – like the Yorlin one above.…

kodak portra 160

By: KDD May 24, 2020May 24, 2020

color, colour, People MAKE Glasgow, photographycolour, film, kodak, lartigue, making, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, process, Shetland Oo13 Comments

Hello everyone. Tom here with a post about my new favourite colour film, Kodak Portra 160. What I find really exciting about the discipline of photography is that despite the advancement of technologies available, access to old techniques remains, meaning that the rich and complex history of photography continues to be available for us to…

rows 1, 5, 9 or 15

By: KDD May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

collaboration, design, knitting, Melcardigan, collaboration, design, knitting, Lace, pattern, pattern writing, swatching, yorlin25 Comments

There are things involved with developing and writing a knitting pattern which you rarely get to see. This is one of those things. Yorlin is knitted top down. This means you can work your cardigan to exactly the length that you’d like, so that it suits your body. The design features two lace panels, using…

Yorlin

By: KDD May 22, 2020May 22, 2020

color, colour, design, Milarrochy Tweed, yarncardigan, cowslip, design, Lace, Milarrochy Tweed, yarn, yellow, yellowhammer, yorlin62 Comments

Good morning! When I sketched this yellow cardigan in my notebook towards the beginning of the year, it was with the thought that I might get to wear it, with a favourite dress, at the wedding of my friends, Briony and Will. Like many couples in similar situations, Will and Briony have had to change…

Crafting Futures: meaningful collaboration

By: KDD May 21, 2020May 21, 2020

Crafting Futures, creativity, friendsApplied Arts Scotland, collaboration, Crafting Futures, creativity, friendship, making, mexico, practice, process18 Comments

This post is the fourth in my series about my Applied Arts Scotland / Crafting Futures residency, the work I’m developing as a consequence, and the impact of the experience on my practice. Here are links to parts one, two and three. During the Crafting Futures residency, I was paired up with my collaboration partner…

bluebells . . . and buttons

By: KDD May 20, 2020May 20, 2020

buttons, design, wildflowersbluebells, buttons, design, flowers, landscape, photography, rain, Scotland, wildflowers33 Comments

Good morning! Wow! I really enjoyed your myriad button views! It was fascinating to read through all your comments and I really appreciated hearing so many different perspectives! But it was especially intriguing to me that the blue buttons came out so far on top. I kind of agree with the majority view: the blue…

help me choose buttons

By: KDD May 19, 2020May 19, 2020

buttons, design, Milarrochy Tweed, yarn, yarnbuttons, design, Milarrochy Tweed, yellow228 Comments

Hello! Today I’m putting the finishing touches to a new cardigan which (all being well) I’ll be able to show you on Friday. I have spent the past hour or so poking around the button box . . . with some success, and a wee bit of frustration. I fear my button-vision may no longer…

over again

By: KDD May 18, 2020May 18, 2020

books, Politics, reviewcritique, disinformation, History, misinformation, Peter Pomerantsev, Politics, review, This is not Propaganda, writing33 Comments

When do you read something over again? There are crime novels to which I frequently return (those of Josephine Tey and Marjorie Allingham are particular favourites) and, when I’m ill or low, I often pick up books enjoyed in childhood (Paul Gallico, Giovanni Guareschi). My main reading for pleasure now tends to be non-fiction, and…

rainy sunday crumpets

By: KDD May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

baking, food, recipebaking, crumpets, food, recipe, sourdough26 Comments

Hello everyone, Tom here with a quick idea for some Sunday morning baking. Thank you to everyone who commented on my bread post with suggestions on how to use my excess, unfed sourdough starter. I was particularly excited by the prospect of making sourdough crumpets . . . so here’s my take! Kate especially enjoyed…

crafting futures: a residency of things

By: KDD May 16, 2020May 16, 2020

collaboration, Crafting Futures, creativity, making, processbymakersformakers, collaboration, Crafting Futures, creativity, exchange, making, mexico, Oaxaca, process, residency, things18 Comments

Preparing for the Crafting Futures residency reminded me of being a teenager going on “exchange.” One’s bag would always include some representative souvenirs for the family one was visiting: a tin of biscuits or confectionery, a small book about one’s local area. I wanted to bring gifts for my compatriots on the Crafting Futures residency…

all dressed in grellow

By: KDD May 15, 2020May 15, 2020

colour, design, kits, knitting, landscape, West Highland Way, West Highlandsall dressed in yellow, cables, design, fiddler's bid, knitting, Stronachlachar24 Comments

Hello! After some welcome warm weather, there’s been an unusually cold snap over the past few days in Scotland. Though we’ve not seen much of the snow and hail flurries that have been bothering friends further north, the air has turned very cold, we’ve put off planting out our broccoli, and have had to protect…