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Operculum

By: KDD 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

Forêts Paisibles

By: KDD August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

My Placedesign, forest, forests, forets paisibles, Justyna Haberkowa, knitting, My Place, pattern, peaceable forests, slipped stitches11 Comments

Peaceable forests inspire an innovative hat

gorse / Glenan

By: KDD May 6, 2022May 6, 2022

design, knitting, landscape, patternsdesign, glenan, gorse, knitting, landscape, pattern, Scotland, spring, vest6 Comments

a jolly yellow vest, for Spring

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…