Hi, I am currently knitting the Carbeth cardigan (It is the cropped cardigan) and have come to a block in the pattern. It is #3 Join Body and Sleeves into Yolk. I am at Commence yoke shaping; it is here I have encountered the problem . The pattern says to repeat steps C and D until 2sts rem etc…. but then I read on and do not understand the section that says Follow instructions for your size etc…… and I am supposed to end up with 70 stitches.
I hope I have been able to make myself clear. I would really love some help.
Thanks,
Angie Robinson
I have just started the Betty Mouat cowl and fallen at the very start! Is there a trick to joining in the round with so many stitches? I have never had a problem before but I have never had so many stitches at cast on. Also, what cast on method do you suggest? Sorry to sound so dim but I really am in a muddle with this.
Hi Kate. I have finally purchased wool to make your ‘sheep head’ hat. The pattern is dated 2011. In the pattern it mentions a website to go to to see your online tutorial on crown shaping. When I type in the details as per your pattern it says that the site address is for sale. Is the tutorial anywhere else that I can access please. Many thanks Kay
Hi Kate
a friend of my daughters sold me some yarn for Dathan Pullover Love the yarn but was wondering if i could make the Strodie Pullover (i like the shape better) with this yarn i would like to purchase this pattern
Cheers
Marie Smith
I am just starting to knit A Hap for Harriet. And wondering if anyone has added beads. If yes, where were they added? And any recommendations for me in terms of bead size or technique? Thank you! Barbara
I have questions rather than comments. I just got my kit to knit Strathendrick. I am anxious to start. I am an experienced knitter and have done some complicated color work. However, the color work was a tam. I didn’t do a swatch. For the sweater, I will swatch. How do I go about it? Should I do it in the round, and to what measurements? Do I then cut it to get an accurate measurement? I assume there is enough yarn in the kit to allow for switching. Thanks for any help you can provide. Mary Lundberg
Hi Kate
I do not speak English, I do it through a translator. A few months ago I bought the pattern A Hap for Harriet, and I have many doubts, is there any way you can help me? Could you give me an email address to write my questions? thank you.
I am working on my very first of your patterns the perrie floores hat .i am on row 4 the decrease row and I am sorta lost. I think my problem is after doing the first decrease I don’t know exactly where I am. After 1st dec. I was 10 stitches in slid two whites over a red. Now is that red the first red of the two reds one blue two reds
I would love to make a cardigan like yours for my daughter who’s going to get married next year.
Is it possible to buy the pattern. If not, can you recommend something like it?
Sorry I never replied your answer…I didn’t reed it until today. Maybe the pattern will be on time. I hope so for I still think it to be really beautiful. I love to read your blog. I makes me feel happy and wanting to make more lovely things.
I adore your work, your patterns are awesome and I will knit the Blue Bells Sweater for my little daughter’s birthday. I’d also love to make the bag that unfortunately has been removed from this site. Could you please, please send it to me, I promise not to copy or sell it!
I’m glad I came across your work, thank you so much, it makes me wanting to make progress with my knitting.
Manu(ela)
Help! I’m to be a grandma for the first time in December. My daughter -who loves fair isle patterns wants me to make the baby a crib/pram blanket in subdued neutral colours. My concerns are: What wool to use for baby softness
Always use Jamieson Spindthrift but feels a bit coarse for baby
Because of reverse having lots if loops will I need to back it with something
How do I knit something a metre square. What sort of needles will take that many stitches?
Hi Kate
I made a ‘Two Kates’ project bag a while back, and came back here looking for the pattern to pass on to some admirers. I can’t find it! Is it no longer available, or has it been relocated?
Hi Judith – the patterns have only just been released – I have written a post about the release today, and will be posting the tutorial tomorrow. You’ll be able to find it on the home page, and via a link from this page also
I JUST landed from a whirlwind tour of Ireland, and a length of fantastic Donegal tweed landed with me….I am planning a shoulder bag with it! but I am wondering if it’s necessary to bind the tweed to some sort of backing to stop unravelling? Sounds silly, but I am in no way a seamstress! Thanks!
No purl garter stitch in the round: thank you so much for making this video. It is kind of life changing for my knitting, I usually hold off doing in the round garter stitch projects because, while I love knitting in the round, I feel that unnecessary purling puts a damper on the whole thing.
I really love your work and how it inspires other people to knit and be creative. Thank you so much for including the historical content in your patterns, as I feel it is a crucial part of each design you make. Well done Kate, keep up the good work.
Is there any way you can compress the bag tutorial? It’s 32mb for four pages and my browser and printer want to explode downloading that much. I think you need to compress the photos before sending it to the document.
What an inspiration you are! Discovered this site whilst searching family history – my great-great grandmother was Sarah Morphew (nee Standen) and have sometimes wondered whether my love of textiles came from her. A business woman, yes, but caring also, I believe.
Thank you for this lovely website. I’m not very good at all things electronic – but shall try to re-visit often.
Sarah Langworthy
My Grandfather was Robert Mouet Fothergill. His mother was the sister of James Jamieson of the Columbine. Mate I think was Bobby Smith. Have camped from South to North. Have mothers pre1939 photos and other much older familly one including the Columbine. Thank for such a wonderful presentation. Now 81 and may not get north again so have to put up with the Lake District!
Regards,
Michael Jones… (Not Welsh!)
I’ve just watched your tutorial on making the cockleshell – that is so neat!! /What a great wee technique. Very clever – I haven’t come across this before. Did you invent it?
Those tutorial videos are great. I like how clearly Mel speaks, and the fact that I feel I can can hear either rain on the window or the sea and some seagulls very slightly in the background. Did you add those sounds in or are they just a happy coincidence of where you filmed? The videos are really helpful and the techniques well explained.
I love that you have put these tutorials up, and that I could start with the cowl pattern if I was a bit intimidated by trying out the sweater first! Genius.
You inspire me. Your eye for detail is wonderful.
My daughter is getting married and I am suggesting she/we make your bag
and give as a gift to her bridesmaids.
Thank you for sharing your talent!
Thank you for the pattern! It was serendipity that following the links from Rav about rams and yowes(and wanting to read Textisles, for some months, too), that I finally hit your blog. Just this past week my sister (a new knitter and pink ribbon survivor) asked me for a project bag so your tutorial was and will be a gift! Good reading, great patterns. Again, my thanks. Another Kate
I have just found your blog because you have been “freshly pressed”, congratulations! I haven’t looked at everything yet, but your patterns that I have seen are beautiful. I don’t have much experience knitting with different colours, but now I am inspired to try. And I love this pattern for the bag, I am definitely going to give it a try.
Last year I was in the UK with my family, helping my mother care for my grandmother who had been suffering from transient ischemic strokes for the past 5 years. It was very hard to see a woman who had been so strong and healthy, barely surviving, and knowing that she never would have wanted to live in such a way. She died at home, which is what my mother wanted, but caring for her took a lot out of my mother. As you said in your post, at some point we will all have to deal with this, as carers or being cared for. However as families live more separate lives, taking on this type of care becomes harder, and shouldn’t be done alone.
My grandmother suffered from migraines, so does my mother, and so do I. I am fortunate that my husband is very understanding when I am sick, and sometimes knows before I do that a migraine is coming. But the connections between strokes and migraines scares me.
I know I am far away, but I hope you don’t mind me putting a link to your blog in mine, your knitting is “hermoso”!
KDD & Co 
Hi Kate, could you possibly do a tutorial for the wrapping cast on method. Having trouble getting old brain around it. Thank you
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Hi – I was interested in your covered button tutorial but there doesn’t seem to be a working link. Thanks
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It’s here:
https://kddandco.com/2014/02/20/covered-button-tutorial/
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Thanks! Great tutorial
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Hi, I am currently knitting the Carbeth cardigan (It is the cropped cardigan) and have come to a block in the pattern. It is #3 Join Body and Sleeves into Yolk. I am at Commence yoke shaping; it is here I have encountered the problem . The pattern says to repeat steps C and D until 2sts rem etc…. but then I read on and do not understand the section that says Follow instructions for your size etc…… and I am supposed to end up with 70 stitches.
I hope I have been able to make myself clear. I would really love some help.
Thanks,
Angie Robinson
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Hi Angie – I am at the same stage and am also confused – did you find a resolution? Arohanui, Julie
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Are there any tutorials regarding the Bieldy socks particularly with regards to the heel?
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Hi
You absolutely rock!
I have been following you since the beginning.
Have had a hiatus from social media for sometime now, and have been greatly disappointed by some since returning.
Stay strong Kate, I adore your designs and life principles.
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I have just started the Betty Mouat cowl and fallen at the very start! Is there a trick to joining in the round with so many stitches? I have never had a problem before but I have never had so many stitches at cast on. Also, what cast on method do you suggest? Sorry to sound so dim but I really am in a muddle with this.
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Hi Gwendoline, just send us an email at info@katedaviesdesigns.com and we can help
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Doh, I don’t know why I was panicking but took a deep breath and got the stitches joined. Really enjoying the rhythm of the pattern.
Thanks so much
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Hi Kate. I have finally purchased wool to make your ‘sheep head’ hat. The pattern is dated 2011. In the pattern it mentions a website to go to to see your online tutorial on crown shaping. When I type in the details as per your pattern it says that the site address is for sale. Is the tutorial anywhere else that I can access please. Many thanks Kay
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hi Kay – the tutorial is here https://kddandco.com/2011/09/13/colourwork-and-crown-decreases/
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Hi Kate
a friend of my daughters sold me some yarn for Dathan Pullover Love the yarn but was wondering if i could make the Strodie Pullover (i like the shape better) with this yarn i would like to purchase this pattern
Cheers
Marie Smith
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Hi Marie, happy to help – could you email us at info@katedaviesdesigns.com so we can respond in detail?
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I am just starting to knit A Hap for Harriet. And wondering if anyone has added beads. If yes, where were they added? And any recommendations for me in terms of bead size or technique? Thank you! Barbara
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I’m staring the Ram and Yowes blanket and I’d like to know what cast-on method that you would suggest.
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hi Rachel, just drop us an email at info@katedaviesdesigns.com and we can help you out
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I have questions rather than comments. I just got my kit to knit Strathendrick. I am anxious to start. I am an experienced knitter and have done some complicated color work. However, the color work was a tam. I didn’t do a swatch. For the sweater, I will swatch. How do I go about it? Should I do it in the round, and to what measurements? Do I then cut it to get an accurate measurement? I assume there is enough yarn in the kit to allow for switching. Thanks for any help you can provide. Mary Lundberg
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Hi Mary, sure you will be fine – we can give you some help by email – info@katedaviesdesigns.com
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Hi Kate
I do not speak English, I do it through a translator. A few months ago I bought the pattern A Hap for Harriet, and I have many doubts, is there any way you can help me? Could you give me an email address to write my questions? thank you.
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Hi Gladys – you can email us with your questions at: info@katedaviesdesigns.com
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I cannot fond the tutorial dir the oran do chaora
, Special Technikums, WScdd.
Ulrike
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Hi Ulrike – can you email us at info@katedaviesdesigns.com so we can help?
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Thank you for the Ottar hap tutorial. So easy when you are shown how its done in beautiful clear steps.
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I am working on my very first of your patterns the perrie floores hat .i am on row 4 the decrease row and I am sorta lost. I think my problem is after doing the first decrease I don’t know exactly where I am. After 1st dec. I was 10 stitches in slid two whites over a red. Now is that red the first red of the two reds one blue two reds
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Dear Kate,
I love the pictures of your wedding. Such beauty!
I would love to make a cardigan like yours for my daughter who’s going to get married next year.
Is it possible to buy the pattern. If not, can you recommend something like it?
Greetings, Margreet
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Hi Margaret, thanks so much! I’ll be releasing a pattern for the cardigan next year, though this may not be in time for you . . .
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Hello Kate,
Sorry I never replied your answer…I didn’t reed it until today. Maybe the pattern will be on time. I hope so for I still think it to be really beautiful. I love to read your blog. I makes me feel happy and wanting to make more lovely things.
Love, Margreet
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I adore your work, your patterns are awesome and I will knit the Blue Bells Sweater for my little daughter’s birthday. I’d also love to make the bag that unfortunately has been removed from this site. Could you please, please send it to me, I promise not to copy or sell it!
I’m glad I came across your work, thank you so much, it makes me wanting to make progress with my knitting.
Manu(ela)
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Hi, where can I purchase the pattern for the cowl above. thank you
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Help! I’m to be a grandma for the first time in December. My daughter -who loves fair isle patterns wants me to make the baby a crib/pram blanket in subdued neutral colours. My concerns are: What wool to use for baby softness
Always use Jamieson Spindthrift but feels a bit coarse for baby
Because of reverse having lots if loops will I need to back it with something
How do I knit something a metre square. What sort of needles will take that many stitches?
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Hi Kate
I made a ‘Two Kates’ project bag a while back, and came back here looking for the pattern to pass on to some admirers. I can’t find it! Is it no longer available, or has it been relocated?
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Hi Margaret, I’m afraid I had to remove this tutorial as folk were copying the pattern & selling it.
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Thank you for the fantastic tutorials! It makes taking the leap into more complicated patterns much easier – can’t wait to try the BMC
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Thanks for the great tutorials for making Betty Mouat – gonna get started on my cowl as soon as I can!
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I don’t see the covered button tutorial for the Richard The Roundhead Tam. Where is it?
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Hi Judith – the patterns have only just been released – I have written a post about the release today, and will be posting the tutorial tomorrow. You’ll be able to find it on the home page, and via a link from this page also
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I JUST landed from a whirlwind tour of Ireland, and a length of fantastic Donegal tweed landed with me….I am planning a shoulder bag with it! but I am wondering if it’s necessary to bind the tweed to some sort of backing to stop unravelling? Sounds silly, but I am in no way a seamstress! Thanks!
LikeLike
No purl garter stitch in the round: thank you so much for making this video. It is kind of life changing for my knitting, I usually hold off doing in the round garter stitch projects because, while I love knitting in the round, I feel that unnecessary purling puts a damper on the whole thing.
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I found this on my birthday and feel like you gave me a present! Thank You!
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Fabulous. Thanks for sharing.
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I really love your work and how it inspires other people to knit and be creative. Thank you so much for including the historical content in your patterns, as I feel it is a crucial part of each design you make. Well done Kate, keep up the good work.
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I love your designs, your blog and your beautiful sweaters! So inspirational.
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Is there any way you can compress the bag tutorial? It’s 32mb for four pages and my browser and printer want to explode downloading that much. I think you need to compress the photos before sending it to the document.
Thanks!
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Thanks for sharing.
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Very helpful to have a demonstration.
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I cannot seem to purchase your patterns on revelry???
It seems as if my bank does not like the paypal or something please advise
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What an inspiration you are! Discovered this site whilst searching family history – my great-great grandmother was Sarah Morphew (nee Standen) and have sometimes wondered whether my love of textiles came from her. A business woman, yes, but caring also, I believe.
Thank you for this lovely website. I’m not very good at all things electronic – but shall try to re-visit often.
Sarah Langworthy
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My Grandfather was Robert Mouet Fothergill. His mother was the sister of James Jamieson of the Columbine. Mate I think was Bobby Smith. Have camped from South to North. Have mothers pre1939 photos and other much older familly one including the Columbine. Thank for such a wonderful presentation. Now 81 and may not get north again so have to put up with the Lake District!
Regards,
Michael Jones… (Not Welsh!)
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I’ve just watched your tutorial on making the cockleshell – that is so neat!! /What a great wee technique. Very clever – I haven’t come across this before. Did you invent it?
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Those tutorial videos are great. I like how clearly Mel speaks, and the fact that I feel I can can hear either rain on the window or the sea and some seagulls very slightly in the background. Did you add those sounds in or are they just a happy coincidence of where you filmed? The videos are really helpful and the techniques well explained.
I love that you have put these tutorials up, and that I could start with the cowl pattern if I was a bit intimidated by trying out the sweater first! Genius.
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You inspire me. Your eye for detail is wonderful.
My daughter is getting married and I am suggesting she/we make your bag
and give as a gift to her bridesmaids.
Thank you for sharing your talent!
LikeLike
Thank you for the pattern! It was serendipity that following the links from Rav about rams and yowes(and wanting to read Textisles, for some months, too), that I finally hit your blog. Just this past week my sister (a new knitter and pink ribbon survivor) asked me for a project bag so your tutorial was and will be a gift! Good reading, great patterns. Again, my thanks. Another Kate
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Thank you for the pattern. Your fabric is very cute!
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Thanks a lot for this tutorial. It is a very good idea for a Christmas present!
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Love the bag
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I just made this bag, what a great pattern, so simple I was finished in no time. Thanks for sharing!
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awesome!
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what a wonderful blog. I love to knit and sew : )
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I have just found your blog because you have been “freshly pressed”, congratulations! I haven’t looked at everything yet, but your patterns that I have seen are beautiful. I don’t have much experience knitting with different colours, but now I am inspired to try. And I love this pattern for the bag, I am definitely going to give it a try.
Last year I was in the UK with my family, helping my mother care for my grandmother who had been suffering from transient ischemic strokes for the past 5 years. It was very hard to see a woman who had been so strong and healthy, barely surviving, and knowing that she never would have wanted to live in such a way. She died at home, which is what my mother wanted, but caring for her took a lot out of my mother. As you said in your post, at some point we will all have to deal with this, as carers or being cared for. However as families live more separate lives, taking on this type of care becomes harder, and shouldn’t be done alone.
My grandmother suffered from migraines, so does my mother, and so do I. I am fortunate that my husband is very understanding when I am sick, and sometimes knows before I do that a migraine is coming. But the connections between strokes and migraines scares me.
I know I am far away, but I hope you don’t mind me putting a link to your blog in mine, your knitting is “hermoso”!
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Love the retro bold print fabrics! Super bag too! x
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