felix ford – KDD & Co

The problematic race to the POP

Is it a kind of quick-fix magic? or a concept that has got too big for its boots?

Knitsonik – and friends

chatting about colour, joy, and collaboration with the inimitable KNITSONIK

Oxford Bluestockings

By: Kate Davies Designs July 11, 2021July 11, 2021

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contemporary bluestockings sharing their knitting, their learning and their feminism

International Women’s Day best practice award

By: Kate Davies Designs November 13, 2019November 13, 2019

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We are thrilled and honoured to announce that our collaborative blanket celebrating 30 diverse creative women has received a “best practice award” from International Women’s Day. We are especially proud, because such awards are usually conferred on much larger companies, groups and organisations. We’ve always felt that, however small we are as a business, it’s…

Square Share

A little over a year ago I travelled to Reading for a confab with my friend Felix. We’d had an idea to work on a project together with our mutual friend and colleague, Mel, and wanted to thrash things out. By the time I was heading north again, we’d come up with a plan: to…

en-able

I was recently having a chat with an academic pal of mine, who is working on a project looking at changes in the hand-knitting industry over the past few decades. She asked me about how I thought the industry had changed, and what I felt the major differences might be in establishing and running a…

illustrating knitting

By: Kate Davies Designs March 22, 2014March 22, 2014

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While I am ironing and packing up Tea Towels this morning, I thought you might be interested to read more about how they were created. I interviewed the amazing Felicity Ford about the process she goes through when producing illustrations of my designs. 1. I know you have many artistic skillz in all kinds of…

Layter – a celebration of sheep and wool

In case you haden’t noticed, today is the first of WOVEMBER! I thought I’d begin the month by showing you a garment that, like no other I can think of, truly celebrates the glorious variety of British sheep and wool. It was designed by my good friend and fellow WOVEMBERIST, Felicity Ford, AKA, Felix. This…

experiments

By: Kate Davies Designs August 13, 2009August 14, 2009

food, History, knitting, landscape, textiles, yarnAlice Starmore, baking, felix ford, hebridean 2ply, jam, Shetland knitting, ysolda17 Comments

#1. Jam. I blame Sarah. She brought a jar of her homemade jam round for lunch, and it was so damn fine I had to try my hand. These jars combine the last of our allotment raspberries with some extra from the farmer’s market. Jamtastic! It set, and everything. We have already guzzled our way…