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journey of mind

By: KDD March 10, 2021March 21, 2021

design, health, mental health, My Placedepression, design, health, knitting, location, mental health, Mind, My Place, pattern, place41 Comments

Diana Niedobova writes frankly and courageously about her experience of depression, and her sense of place.

Oa my!

Kate’s favourite outdoor pullover gets an Oa-verhaul

zwiebelmuster

Nicole Wagler tells us about eighteenth-century porcelain and her sense of place in Meissen

YOLK!

Yes, I am standing in a frozen landscape dressed as a fried egg – what of it?

Cas

Eimear Earley introduces a gorgeous shawl inspired by the golden age of Irish art

Green Shoots mittens

By: KDD January 29, 2021March 21, 2021

colour, design, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, patternsdesign, foxglove, free download, Green Shoots Mittens, Green Shoots Tam, Milarrochy Tweed, mittens, pattern, stranded colourwork54 Comments

A jolly design for January

Friday is pattern reveal day, and I have a brand new sweater design to show you! I’m a huge fan of the arched Selbu motifs which are most often traditionally used on gloves and mittens and you’ll see the long-standing influence of these motifs on my design work in hats like Richard the Roundhead, or…

red shawl and yellow belt

By: KDD June 20, 2020June 20, 2020

weavingbelt, inkle weaving, loom, pattern, weaving, woven bands24 Comments

I imagine most of you were looking at the shawl I’m waving about in these pictures yesterday, but today I’m going to talk about the belt I’m wearing too. I wove this belt back at the start of the year, when I’d really got into pick-up weaving In fact, it was one of the first…

beamer

By: KDD June 19, 2020June 19, 2020

design, knittingbeamer, design, knitting, knitting pattern, Lace, pattern, shawl33 Comments

A shawl for midsummer! A shawl red as a June strawberry, light as an evening breeze! The name of the pattern is Beamer Now, in many parts of Scotland, Beamer is not a particular brand of car, but a word for blushing. To “take a beamer” means to blush – most usually with embarassment –…

rows 1, 5, 9 or 15

By: KDD May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

collaboration, design, knitting, Melcardigan, collaboration, design, knitting, Lace, pattern, pattern writing, swatching, yorlin26 Comments

There are things involved with developing and writing a knitting pattern which you rarely get to see. This is one of those things. Yorlin is knitted top down. This means you can work your cardigan to exactly the length that you’d like, so that it suits your body. The design features two lace panels, using…

Con Alma

By: KDD April 10, 2020April 10, 2020

colour, creativity, designasphodel, colour, Con Alma, creativity, design, fit, knitting, Lace, Milarrochy Tweed, pattern, tee, vest34 Comments

Good morning! Time for another pattern release today! I love our new Asphodel shade of Milarrochy Tweed – a light, fresh orange colour with bold tweedy neps. I wanted to really celebrate Apphodel’s interest and complexity by featuring it in a garment – so I designed Con Alma A couple of years ago, I designed…

Pabaigh

By: KDD May 11, 2018May 11, 2018

design, Kate Davies, Kate Davies Designs, patternsdesign, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, Pabaigh, pattern49 Comments

Good morning! This is Pabaigh – my new design in the new Cranachan shade. I spend a lot of time walking in some quite exposed and windswept places. And I’m not sure if this is the case elsewhere in the world, but here in Scotland I find I often need to layer up, especially in…