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A smock and a walk

By: Kate Davies Designs May 3, 2011May 3, 2011

design, knitting, Scotland, walkingdesign, geology, Jamieson and Smith Aran, Kate Davies, knitting, Scotland, smocks, St Abbs, St Abbs Head, walking76 Comments

You may remember some talk about pockets here a few weeks ago. I can now show you the fruits of my labours. Our recent camping trips impressed on me that I was lacking a good outdoor sweater – something that is easy to wear, that one can throw on over layers in the evenings when…

I keep forgetting

By: Kate Davies Designs March 17, 2009

events, knitting, yarnalpacas, angora goats, knitting, St Abbs, St Abbs Wool Festival, wool, Woolfish, yarn4 Comments

To show you a few photos from the St Abbs wool festival on March 9th. It is great to see regional events like this taking off (thanks to Louise). Beasties! Yarn! Spectacular coastal scenery! What more could one want? Tom liked the goats . . . I heart alpacas . . . . . .…

By: Kate Davies Designs January 6, 2008January 6, 2008

beasties, knitting, landscape, walkingBerwickshire Llama Trekking, St Abbs, walking, winter, Woolfish4 Comments

It being a beautiful, bright day, we went walking in the Borders — around the cliffs at St Abbs Head. The first thing we saw, in the thin winter light at the top of the harbour, was Jill Watson’s moving memorial to the Eyemouth fishing disaster. During a terrible storm on October 14th, 1881, over…