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Firth o’ Forth

By: Kate Davies Designs November 12, 2013November 12, 2013

design, Edinburgh, textilesEdinburgh, Edinburgh History, Edinburgh series, Firth o' Forth, History, Kate Davies, Kate Davies designs, Oysters, Robert Fergusson75 Comments

Ahoy from the Firth o’ Forth! This cardigan is the second in my series of my Edinburgh-inspired designs, and it is named after the important estuary that marks the city’s northern boundary. The Firth was a major feature of the decade we spent in Edinburgh: we lived in sight of it – just up the…

pockets

By: Kate Davies Designs March 31, 2011March 5, 2018

Edinburgh, History, Scotland, textilesEdinburgh, Edinburgh History, fishwives, Hill and Adamson, History, knitting, Newhaven, Newhaven fishwives, pockets, textile history, tie-on pockets84 Comments

I have been knitting pockets. I am designing something which requires a pocket of a certain kind and I spent most of yesterday testing out several. By mid-afternoon, after creating a curious sampler composed of several different kinds of mini-pocket, I had a mild eureka moment, and devised what I reckon is the the perfect…