Gawthorpe – pattern release!

By: Kate Davies Designs
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You may remember that, last Autumn, I spent a happy day visiting Gawthorpe Textile Collection with Debbie Bliss, Jane Ellison , Claire Montgomerie, and Emma Varnam We designers had been commissioned to produce designs inspired by items in the collection . . . we worked on them over the Winter . . . and today,…

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a day at Gawthorpe

By: Kate Davies Designs
crewel, design, embroidery, folk art, History, knitting, lace, making, textile history, textiles, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 68 Comments on a day at Gawthorpe

Some days I wake up and I feel massively, incredibly lucky to have somehow landed here, in this curious new life, as a designer of hand-knits. Last Thursday was one of those days. Because I had been invited — along with Debbie Bliss , Jane Ellison, Claire Montgomerie, and Emma Varnam — to visit Gawthorpe…

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