publishing – KDD & Co

thank you

By: KDD September 29, 2022

design, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, publishingbook, design, knitting, ooskit, publishing, sark, second edition5 Comments

Sark second edition in the offing

forthcoming . . .

By: KDD September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

books, photography, publishingallover, aurora, book, club, design, knitting, publishing, sark, West Highland Way16 Comments

not long to wait . . .

historical memory

what do we call to mind about a place? Which local narratives deserve commemoration?

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!

Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

contemporary bluestockings, Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

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!

two new projects

News about Inkling, and The Bluestocking Club

mend

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

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…

the closing year

By: KDD December 18, 2020December 18, 2020

books, design, Kate Davies Designs, publishing, review, seasonal10 Years in the making, colour moves, design, Glasgow, knitting, publishing, Warm Hands, writing33 Comments

As the first copies of our 10 Years in the Making book arrived in the KDD warehouse yesterday, I thought (not for the first time) about what a very weird year it has been. We published four brand new titles . . . . . .and created 23 new patterns – the majority of which…

a whole lot of yokes

By: KDD October 29, 2020October 29, 2020

design, Kate Davies, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, publishing, textiles, YOKES!business, design, publishing, sweaters, yoke sweaters, yokes23 Comments

We’ve been waiting for the new edition of YOKES to arrive from our printer, and I thought I’d go back through my records and check exactly how many copies we’d sold, in total, since the book was first published in December, 2014. I discovered that the total number of YOKES we’ve printed and sold is…

a chat with Misa Hay

There is no getting away from the fact that, whatever business you are in, this year has been a very weird one. Having to change the nature and direction of what you are doing – often very rapidly – is never an easy thing, and this year there have been so many of those changes.…