making – KDD & Co

inkling is out

By: KDD May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

books, creativity, Kate Davies Designs, making, publishing, textilesbooks, creativity, design, inkling, knitting, making, Milarrochy Tweed, publishing, work9 Comments

The Inkling book is published!

behind the mask

accepting that not everything works out is key to the (slow) creative process

work in progress

A creative collaboration celebrating performance, parody and play

mend

We celebrate the new edition of Wheesht with this essay exploring the creative work of mending and Celia Pym’s inspiring practice

make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

Kate talks to Flora Collingwood-Norris about mending, Scottish islands, and how colour makes you feel

re-knitting

By: KDD January 31, 2021March 21, 2021

design, knitting, making, processamazing knitters, baffies, bieldy, design, knitters, knitting, making, peerie flooers, process, reknitting48 Comments

reflections on repeat knitting

destination: sleeve island

By: KDD January 24, 2021March 21, 2021

design, knitting, making, processcircular needles, design, fixed circulars, knitting, knitting styles, making, process, sleeve island, sleeves75 Comments

Sleeve island: the best place to be?

We were able to put quite a few things in the KDD shop last week, including our brand new 10 Years in the Making book. The book is now available for wholesale too, so if you are a bookshop or yarn store (or know a bookshop or yarn store) who would like to stock this…

my McRostie forever bag

By: KDD October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

craft, Kate Davies, knitting, making, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, textilesbag, Clydesdales, craft, Glasgow, handbag, leather, leatherwork, making, McRostie15 Comments

Today we released the Evendoon Cardigan – the third pattern in our 10 Years in the Making Club (come and join us for three months of knitting fun!) I really enjoyed styling this cardigan with my beautiful Mull Bag, which was made for me a wee while ago by Colin Campbell of McRostie: one of…

People MAKE Glasgow

By: KDD September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

People MAKE Glasgowcreativity, making, manufacturing, People MAKE Glasgow, publishing9 Comments

Hurrah! It is People MAKE Glasgow launch day! As well as introducing you to what the book’s about, in this wee film you see one of the Glasgow makers featured in it – talented signwriter Rachel E Millar – creating the book’s cover art on one of the interior walls of the KDD warehouse. In…

the mask’s on you

Jaguar and Tiger, Chilapa, 2017. Phyllis Galembo, Mexico: Masks, Rituals (2019) This is the fourth in my series of posts about my participation in an Applied Arts Scotland / British Council Crafting Futures residency, the work I’m developing as a consequence, and the impact of the project on my own practice. You can read parts…

kodak portra 160

By: KDD May 24, 2020May 24, 2020

color, colour, People MAKE Glasgow, photographycolour, film, kodak, lartigue, making, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, process, Shetland Oo13 Comments

Hello everyone. Tom here with a post about my new favourite colour film, Kodak Portra 160. What I find really exciting about the discipline of photography is that despite the advancement of technologies available, access to old techniques remains, meaning that the rich and complex history of photography continues to be available for us to…

crafting futures: a residency of things

By: KDD May 16, 2020May 16, 2020

collaboration, Crafting Futures, creativity, making, processbymakersformakers, collaboration, Crafting Futures, creativity, exchange, making, mexico, Oaxaca, process, residency, things18 Comments

Preparing for the Crafting Futures residency reminded me of being a teenager going on “exchange.” One’s bag would always include some representative souvenirs for the family one was visiting: a tin of biscuits or confectionery, a small book about one’s local area. I wanted to bring gifts for my compatriots on the Crafting Futures residency…

ends

By: KDD May 14, 2020

color, colour, making, process, textiles, yarnends, knitting, making, process, yarn50 Comments

I sometimes feel that I’m unusual in my love of ends. As a project draws to completion, and especially if it has involved a lot of different shades, I really look forward to sorting all the ends out. I don’t find this process onerous. It’s just a question of setting aside enough time and being…

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