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Chloë, not cancer

By: Kate Davies Designs March 15, 2021March 21, 2021

beasties, Bruce, Bruce, health, knittingDana Williams-Johnson, dog sweaters, dogs, health, ill health, knitting, recovery, Seavaiger, sweaters38 Comments

One wee dog, two sweaters, and an inspiring story of recovery

a whole lot of yokes

By: Kate Davies Designs 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…

Rhinebeck and other sweaters

By: Kate Davies Designs October 25, 2018October 25, 2018

design, Kate Davies Designs, knitters, knittingamazing knitters, katedaviesdesigns, knitters, knitting, rhinebeck, sweaters26 Comments

Isn’t one of the best things about Autumn that it’s sweater weather? I always enjoy seeing knitters around the world wearing my designs, and this enjoyment often comes to a kind of peak around this time of year, when a veritable slew of amazing projects begin to appear on Instagram and Ravelry. I’ve never been…

designing & publishing: part 2

Well, I sat down a couple of days ago and thought I’d write a quick post about the great new books I’d come across, all of which had been either produced completely independently, or had been commissioned from an independent designer. As I reflected on recent directions in hand-knit design, and digressed into my own…