Elizabeth's prize-winning sweater
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2024/08/30/smookie-at-the-state-fair/
revealing our MKAL palettes
a documentary, an exhibition, an EP, and 49,000 pairs of early nineteenth-century stockings
the shifting fortunes of a changeable colour
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2023/01/20/lady-in-a-green-dress/
the shade that soaks up meaning
Eli Leistad introduces us to colourful combinations, old and new
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2022/12/14/the-colours-of-norwegian-knitting/
place, pattern and colour combine in beautiful, original design
chatting about colour, joy, and collaboration with the inimitable KNITSONIK
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2022/09/30/knitsonik-and-friends/
a hand-knitted smock for autumn
how our attitudes to colour are bound up with the stories we tell ourselves
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2022/08/06/all-dressed-in-yellow/
big skies, bare feet
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2022/07/29/barefoot-on-big-strand/
the costumes of Station Eleven
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2022/05/20/after-the-apocalypse-well-make-stuff/
huge poofy sleeves are optional
what do we call to mind about a place? Which local narratives deserve commemoration?
sorry Claire, the hat is mine!
converging lines
it's yarn-launch day!
the club is over, but there's the book to come!
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/08/16/the-breaking-up-of-the-bluestocking-club/
an inspiring conversation about everyday stuff and big ideas
the "everlasting stocking knitters" of Wales
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/07/28/sock-of-the-week-no-10/
what might a pair of seventeenth-century stockings say about the body that once wore them?
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/07/07/sock-of-the-week-no-7/
an image connecting the histories of eighteenth-century intimate apparel, government taxation, and the democratisation of timekeeping
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/06/30/sock-of-the-week-no-6-socks-and-clocks/
Introducing a talented designer and her fascinating professional journey
Stockings which concealed the political message of a lost eighteenth-century cause.
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/06/23/sock-of-the-week-no-5-jacobite-garters/
Gairloch stockings: A Highland design success story
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/06/16/sock-of-the-week-no-4/
Celebrating the world's first sock knitting book, and its bluestocking author
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/06/09/sock-of-the-week-no-3/
Eighteenth-century stockings in miniature
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/06/02/sock-of-the-week-no-2/
Introducing talented Scottish-Pakistani weaver, Mariam Syed
Philippe Mercier's popular portrait of an eighteenth-century stocking knitter
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/05/26/sock-of-the-week-no-1/
Nicole tells us more about her work on the women of the Bluestocking circle
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/05/19/a-chat-with-nicole-pohl/
The Inkling book is published!
all about the Bluestocking club
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/05/14/the-bluestocking-club/
News about Inkling, and The Bluestocking Club
Celebrating the work of a trailblazing black British woman writer
A creative collaboration celebrating performance, parody and play
The My Place project illustrates how a challenge might turn into a creative opportunity
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/04/04/reflections-on-my-place/
Bonnie Sennot finds inspiration at Winter's End.
Outi Kater introduces a wonderful design inspired by Finnish childhood winters and restorative woodland spaces
A new colourway of a favourite 10 Years in the Making design, together with some good news