pullover – KDD & Co

Carp-beth

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

design, knitting, twisted stitchescarbeth, carp-beth, design, knitting, Norah Gaughan, pullover, Thea Colman, twisted stitches26 Comments

a twist on an old favourite

Good morning, and happy Friday, everyone! I’ve a new design to show to you – Lilias Day I knitted two pullovers over the festive period, featuring the same Selbu motif. In Orchle, I used the motif as an allover pattern around the bottom of the pullover . . . . . . and in Lilias…

Orchle

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…

Coofle

By: Kate Davies Designs March 27, 2020March 27, 2020

color, colour, design, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, yarn, YOKES!colourwork, coofle, jumper, knitting, pullover, stranded colourwork, sweater, weaving, yoke40 Comments

This is a very cheerful sweater And to accompany it, I’m wearing the most cheering pair of shoes I own. . . Yes, even someone with a dropped foot and appalling balance can gad about in these ridiculous ruby slippers! Back to the sweater, whose name is Coofle: an old Scots word for a puzzle,…

Coracle

I’m really excited to reveal something which has been a long time in development and of which all of us at KDD are really proud – Coracle. Before I became a manufacturer of yarn and knitwear I was a consumer of both these things. And, as a consumer, I often found myself deeply troubled by…

Weel Riggit

By: Kate Davies Designs January 26, 2019January 26, 2019

design, knitting, knitting season, yarnÀrd Thìr, jumper, Kate Davies Deisigns, knitting, knitwear, pullover, weel riggit, yarn28 Comments

Like many people, I think, this style of warm, hard-wearing and definitively wintery sweater fills me with a very particular kind of nostalgia. I first saw sweaters of this kind when I was eighteen, and went away to University. There I encountered a very particular kind of student who wore this type of sweater –…

cloudy

The cloud pattern is now ready, and you can find it here! To celebrate its release, I thought I’d show you some pictures (taken in a cloudy Edinburgh yesterday) which suggest the different ways that the sweater might be made and worn. Mel’s storm cloud (warning – rav link) is knit in a yarn (rialto…

owls

Thanks for your well wishes, everyone, which I really have found most cheering. I am starting to feel better (O, the wonder of evil antibiotics) and my OWLS are almost making up for the disappointment of missing Harrogate. Here they come! (note: I do actually have a head. But it looks pretty rotten right now.)…