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By: Kate Davies Designs January 23, 2026 knitting, Knitting Wester Rossblanket, design, featured, Gairloch, Gairloch Blanket, Kate Davies designs, knitting, Knitting Wester Ross, pattern, Wester Ross12 Comments

Gairloch blanket

a playful experiment with scale and proportion

By: Kate Davies Designs January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 dogs, flowers, gardening, photographyamaryllis, bulbs, dogs, featured, flowers, gardening, hippeastrum, January, photography91 Comments

two dogs and an amaryllis

what we need more of this January

Samhla

a beautiful wrap by Lucy Hague, inspired by a Pictish symbol stone

By: Kate Davies Designs January 13, 2026 knitting, teachingArgyll, Argyll and Isles, charts, Cultural Heritage and Arts Assembly, featured, History, keeping it creel, knitting, knitting history, teaching, textile history20 Comments

Keeping it Creel

upcoming in person workshops in Campbeltown!

By: Kate Davies Designs January 8, 2026January 9, 2026 design, History, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, Knitting Wester Ross, Wester RossAchtercairn, Achtercairn Archaeology trail, archaeology, design, featured, Gairloch, Gairloch Museum, Jeremy Fenton, knitting1 Comment

Achtercairn

a circular yoke pullover inspired by a well-cared for ancient landscape

By: Kate Davies Designs January 2, 2026January 2, 2026 Kate Davies Designs, knitting, Knitting Wester Ross, Wester Rossallover, An Ceàrdach, colourwork, featured, knitting, Knitting Wester Ross, pullover, stranded colourwork, The smithy, Wester Ross14 Comments

An Ceàrdach

An Ceàrdach, or The Smithy: a Wester Ross new-year pullover

shop

Step on over to the KDD shop to find our exclusive own-brand wool yarns, beautifully produced books, patterns for hand-knitting, walking socks, and photographic prints

about KDD

Founded by Kate Davies, we are a small creative company, publishing beautiful books, manufacturing our own yarns, and creating gorgeous, wearable designs for hand-knitters. We are based in Kintyre, Scotland.

Tutorials

Need help with a technique? We have handy tutorials to assist you with everything from cutting your first steek to constructing a hap stretcher.

Ooskit 4 ply

By: Kate Davies Designs January 30, 2026January 30, 2026

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our brand new yarn!

Recuperation

By: Kate Davies Designs January 29, 2026

Kate Davies Designs

Hello all, it’s Tom here and I’m writing to let you know that Kate is very unwell at the moment. She will be taking time away from her work in order to rest and focus on her health and recuperation. I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing her well in her recovery. For those in…

Gairloch blanket

By: Kate Davies Designs January 23, 2026

knitting, Knitting Wester Rossblanket, design, featured, Gairloch, Gairloch Blanket, Kate Davies designs, knitting, Knitting Wester Ross, pattern, Wester Ross12 Comments

a playful experiment with scale and proportion

two dogs and an amaryllis

By: Kate Davies Designs January 19, 2026January 19, 2026

dogs, flowers, gardening, photographyamaryllis, bulbs, dogs, featured, flowers, gardening, hippeastrum, January, photography91 Comments

what we need more of this January

Samhla

a beautiful wrap by Lucy Hague, inspired by a Pictish symbol stone

Keeping it Creel

By: Kate Davies Designs January 13, 2026

knitting, teachingArgyll, Argyll and Isles, charts, Cultural Heritage and Arts Assembly, featured, History, keeping it creel, knitting, knitting history, teaching, textile history20 Comments

upcoming in person workshops in Campbeltown!

Achtercairn

By: Kate Davies Designs January 8, 2026January 9, 2026

design, History, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, Knitting Wester Ross, Wester RossAchtercairn, Achtercairn Archaeology trail, archaeology, design, featured, Gairloch, Gairloch Museum, Jeremy Fenton, knitting1 Comment

a circular yoke pullover inspired by a well-cared for ancient landscape

An Ceàrdach

By: Kate Davies Designs January 2, 2026January 2, 2026

Kate Davies Designs, knitting, Knitting Wester Ross, Wester Rossallover, An Ceàrdach, colourwork, featured, knitting, Knitting Wester Ross, pullover, stranded colourwork, The smithy, Wester Ross14 Comments

An Ceàrdach, or The Smithy: a Wester Ross new-year pullover

rearview

a look back at the past year

Rebecca’s book

Celebrating Rebecca Osborn’s brilliant, brand-new design collection

in the winter garden

By: Kate Davies Designs December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

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birds in the dogwood tree

films of 2025

my best and worst watches of the year

five (alternative) festive films

seasonal cinema without the schmaltz

Red Smiddy

cosy socks, inspired by Scotland’s first blast furnaces

Taigh Mòr Fain

a design inspired by human hands and human labour

Denys Martin – reversey

light on dark, or dark on light?