Kate davies designs

Ravelry: Carbeth Cardigan by Kate Davies Designs

One thing I’ve really enjoyed about designing my West Highland Way collection has been playing with new shapes. The Strathendrick jumper is an oversized garment with dropped, skinny sleeves, …

Kate Davies is a writer, researcher and knitter based in Scotland. At the age of 36, her life changed forever when she suffered a stroke. Polly Leonard sat down with Kate to find out when knitting helped her to regain her strength, and discover a newfound creative life... Tell us about when you first became interested

While we were in the Highlands, we took the opportunity to photograph a design I’ve had ready for a while: the Sixareen Cape. I started knitting this Fair Isle wrap last October. You may reme…

I seem to have published a lot of designs in 2018, including thirteen different sweaters. This fairly large number is due to the fact that, in the past year or so, I’ve found my energy for my…

some of the thinking behind the making

Allover is OUT!

Back in 2015, when Tom left academia and began working with me, I took a decision to only design with my own yarns. The reasons for this should be obvious: I’d taken a huge risk developing an…

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I’m not sure whether my approach to design is not a bit . . . unusual? Because rather than thinking about texture or pattern or shape or colour first, I often begin with a finished look in mi…