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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…

Duntreath

I’m so pleased to be able to introduce you to Duntreath! After we successfully launched our lambswool snoods last year, I really wanted to develop a line of garments. Having researched and written a book all about the history of yoke sweaters, I knew I wanted to make yokes, and I also knew who I…

YOKES! Have your say

By: KDD August 19, 2014August 19, 2014

YOKES!Bohus, history of yokes, Iceland, Lopapeysa, seamless yokes, Shetland, Sweden, yoke jumpers, yoke sweaters, yoked sweaters, yokes!144 Comments

As you know, I’ve been working on a new book / design collection for most of this year. My work has involved . . . . . . examining a huge amount of yoke patterns . . . . . . thinking about the differences in styles, proportion, shaping, and fit of yokes over the…

today’s inspiration

Kerstin Olsson in Karen Invarsson’s Bohus design “The Swan”. Twiggy iconic in Fairisle The McCartneys in Shetland Yoke design by Unn Søiland (1951) Yokes, knitted & crocheted pre-1950 Can you guess what my next book is going to be about?