Kate Davies Designs » Scottish textiles

a simple hap with undulating waves

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2023/08/06/minke/

place, pattern and colour combine in beautiful, original design

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2022/11/16/woolly-originals/

huge poofy sleeves are optional

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2022/04/08/argyll-argyle/

It's the launch day of our twentieth book!

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/09/15/twenty-titles/

The Carbeth creature takes a trip to Banchory

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/08/18/creature-goes-north/

an inspiring conversation about everyday stuff and big ideas

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/08/08/marina-moskowitz/

The Baird Undersock

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/07/21/sock-of-the-week-no-9/

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/

Kate talks to Flora Collingwood-Norris about mending, Scottish islands, and how colour makes you feel

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/02/06/make-mend-collingwood-norris/

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 writ...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2018/09/21/duntreath/

I am sure, since I have been completely unable to restrain my excitement on all social media channels, that most of you will have already seen the small range of knitted accessories that we’ve ...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2017/09/27/snoods-psneuds/

At the end of last September, I travelled to Shetland for Wool Week. I’d spent several previous months exploring a new-to-me world of yarn development, and the result – Buachaille – was abo...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2016/03/24/the-buachaille-song-by-felicity-ford/

A couple of days ago, we announced the Seven Skeins Club – a venture we’ve been planning for many months, and which we hope will allow everyone who wants to to sample our lovely new Scottish ...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2015/09/13/behind-the-scenes/

Its time to tell you about my yarn colours! I’ve created seven new shades for Buachaille, and all have been inspired by different aspects of the landscape in which I live and love to walk: its ...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2015/09/04/seven-scottish-shades/

It has been an incredibly busy week here! As you might imagine, the imminent arrival of Buachaille means we have a lot to do, and I am hard at work creating a small collection of designs to accom...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2015/08/29/a-busy-week/

Thankyou, all of you, for your lovely comments and congratulations! I thought you might appreciate hearing a little more about the handmade elements of our wedding. A few years ago, Tom decided t...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2015/08/09/a-handmade-wedding/

Hello! Hope you have had a nice weekend! On Saturday Mel and I took a wee trip to Aberdeen, to visit Scottesque. You may remember that I’ve mentioned Scottesque before (in connection with the m...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2015/05/18/at-scottesque/

What’s this? A handknitted hoose? With flowers in the garden . . . . . . and a wee gate . . . . . leading to a horse-shoe adorned front door . . . . . . there are flowers in the windows too . ....

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2015/04/29/a-treasured-gift/

(image courtesy Shetland Museum and Archives) I am a great fan of haps (which form the focus of one of my long-term projects) and I’m very happ-y indeed to see increasing interest in these simp...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2015/04/11/haps/

The other day Brenda, my lovely neighbour, appeared with a piece of paper in her hand, a gift for me. When I unfolded it, the piece of paper turned out to be a rather interesting and very beautif...

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2015/03/20/unravelling-a-wee-textile-mystery/