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ooskit!

By: Kate Davies Designs October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

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it’s yarn-launch day!

ooskit is coming

By: Kate Davies Designs October 14, 2021October 14, 2021

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new yarn! tomorrow!

twenty titles

It’s the launch day of our twentieth book!

the breaking up of the bluestocking club

the club is over, but there’s the book to come!

Hello! I’m happy to say we’ve just about completed all our behind-the-scenes admin, and have been able to reopen the KDD online shop today. Among the new things you’ll find there is our just-published 10 Years in the Making book (beautifully produced for us by Glasgow’s Bell & Bain), plus two brand new shades of…

warm thanks

By: Kate Davies Designs January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

Warm HandsFenella Pole, Frauke Urban, Jane Hunter, Jeanette sloan, Kate Davies, KDD, Melanie Patton, Mimi Onyekwere, Sam Kilday, Samiratu Kargbo, team, Tom Barr, Warm Hands20 Comments

Well, the book is out, and today Warm Hands is being shipped to knitters all over the world. I do hope you’ve enjoyed our introduction to the project and each of its talented designers in the posts we’ve put together over the past couple of weeks. In a project like this, which involves so many…

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…

Coracle

I’m really excited to reveal something which has been a long time in development and of which all of us at KDD are really proud – Coracle. Before I became a manufacturer of yarn and knitwear I was a consumer of both these things. And, as a consumer, I often found myself deeply troubled by…

looking forward

Hello! Kate here. August is the month at KDD when we all start to look forward to what’s coming in the autumn. This season we are busier than ever, with a wide range of different projects and new releases. Next month, for example, we will finally be able to begin to release the new knitwear…

the working year

By: Kate Davies Designs December 14, 2018December 14, 2018

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We’ve had a lot going on in 2018! We began the year with West Highland Way. (Myrtle) I created twelve designs for this book, and I also enjoyed the writing I produced for it. Together amounting to the same length as a novella, the West Highland Way essays cover a series of topics that you…