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stocking blocking

By: Kate Davies Designs 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

a cowslip hap

By: Kate Davies Designs May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

knitting, yarnblocking, hap, knitting, Lace, Lynsey Walters, Milarrochy Tweed, shawl, Shetland, Shetland Lace, The Observatory, yarn27 Comments

Hello! Friday is project reveal day, and up today is a light and simple knit I’m really enjoying wearing at the moment – The Observatory. I originally created this design for our West Highland Way book, building the pattern around one of my all-time favourite Shetland lace edgings. This edging has a wonderful, intuitive rhythm,…

blocking Carbeth

By: Kate Davies Designs January 9, 2018January 9, 2018

tutorialblocking, carbeth, knitting, tutorial35 Comments

Quite a few knitters seem to be about to finish their Carbeths (yes, it is a quick knit!) , and I wanted to say a quick work about blocking this sweater. This garment requires wet blocking (soak for 20-30 minutes, press dry between towels) and should be blocked flat, as shown in the diagram above.…

hap stretcher tutorial

By: Kate Davies Designs June 8, 2016July 21, 2016

Mel, Shetland, The book of haps, Tom, tutorialblocking, hap, hap board, hap stretcher, haps, Shetland, tutorial78 Comments

As you know, I photographed my Moder Dy design on a beautiful vintage hap stretcher that I borrowed from my friend Anne Eunson. In Shetland, such stretchers have been used for well over a century to block haps and shawls ready for sale, as well as for their knitters’ own domestic use. (washing and dressing…

paperdolls redux

By: Kate Davies Designs July 6, 2010July 7, 2010

design, fairisle, knittingblocking, colourwork, customisation, design, Kate Davies, knitting pattern, paper dolls sweater, paperdolls, pattern, yoked sweater51 Comments

Probably the most rewarding aspect of designing is seeing what knitters actually do with one’s patterns. Ravelry is brilliant for this (as for so many things) and it is sad but true that I regularly peruse the project galleries, and am often to be found in a state of ludicrous excitement over the latest cute…