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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?

Woolly Originals

place, pattern and colour combine in beautiful, original design

Knitting an anti-surveillance jumper

A brilliantly innovative combination of the material and the digital

Operculum

By: Kate Davies Designs September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

My Placecolourwork, design, designers, designing, knitting, Lucy Razzall, makers, making, material culture, Milarrochy Tweed, My Place, Operculum, pattern, stranded colourwork, tam27 Comments

Lucy Razzall’s hat celebrates everyday design and the thing-ness of place

Serkinet

By: Kate Davies Designs September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

creativity, design, making, processcardigan, creativity, design, knitting, making, process, sark, Serkinet24 Comments

on the additional labour of cardigans

Garden hat

a beautiful garden-inspired hat that seems as much grown as it is made

Monk’s Belt Hat

Hand-knitting and hand-weaving speak eloquently to one another in the beautiful work of Janet Bowen

Pollphail

a ghost village, a cardigan, embroidery

collaborative graft and being daft

By: Kate Davies Designs February 12, 2022February 25, 2022

art, creativity, making, workbilly preston, collaboration, creativity, interdependence, Louise Bourgeois, making, music, scottee, sesame street, the beatles, work13 Comments

making work together

talking twisted stitches

A conversation with inspiring Thea Colman

flow

swatching is a bridge to somewhere else

twisted stitch disambiguation

What are “twisted stitches?”

Gruggle

angles, corners, cowls

blocking Easwas

thinking in three dimensions

sarkle

a foundational pullover

reflective

By: Kate Davies Designs October 3, 2021October 3, 2021

knitting, mental health, photography, seasonalAutumn, bipolar, knitting, landscape, making, mental health, photography, productivity, seasonal, work27 Comments

in-between things