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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.

using the Twisted Stitch Sourcebook

By: KDD November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

creativity, design, knitting, twisted stitchesdesign, fabric, hand-knit, hand-knitting, knitting, Norah Gaughan, texture, twisted stitch sourcebook, twisted stitches, twists18 Comments

how to get the most out of this generous, accessible, and inspiring book

“you’d never know”

By: KDD November 9, 2021November 9, 2021

disability, strokeableism, disability, judgment, stroke87 Comments

what not to say to someone who has had a stroke

jinkies

high jinks!

flow

swatching is a bridge to somewhere else

twisted stitch disambiguation

What are “twisted stitches?”

Gruggle

angles, corners, cowls

kaleidoscope

By: KDD October 26, 2021October 26, 2021

design, History, Kate Davies Designs, knitting6 point crown, david brewster, hexagon, kaleidoscope, reflection, reflective symmetry, star, symmetry12 Comments

playing with reflective symmetry

blocking Easwas

thinking in three dimensions

Claire in Easwas

By: KDD October 23, 2021

textilesClaire, design, easwas, hat, horkel, ooskit, size, yarn9 Comments

sorry Claire, the hat is mine!

easwas

A hat of beams and rafters

structure / form

By: KDD October 21, 2021

textilesdesign, form, lines, origami, paper, photography, pylons, structure, trees5 Comments

converging lines

Claire’s sarkle

By: KDD October 17, 2021October 17, 2021

amazing knitters, design, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, YOKES!Claire, grey, grey hair, horkel, knitting, ooskit, sarkle, twisted stitches, yarn, yoke20 Comments

We popped over to Edinburgh to photograph Claire in her new Sarkle

sarkle

a foundational pullover

ooskit!

By: KDD October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

textilesbritish wool, circular economy, Kate Davies designs, KDD, manufacturing, new yarn, ooskit, recycled, sustainability, wool, yarn20 Comments

it’s yarn-launch day!

ooskit is coming

By: KDD October 14, 2021October 14, 2021

manufacturing, wool, yarn, yarnBritish manufacturing, british wool, Kate Davies designs, KDD, KDD and co, manufacturing, new yarn, ooskit, sheep, wool, yarn1 Comment

new yarn! tomorrow!

2×2

By: KDD October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

10 Years in the making, amazing knitters, design, knitting, writing10 Years in the making, 2x2, cables, capecho, crosses, design, Norah Gaughan, owls, tree tram tro13 Comments

when less is more in knitting