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3 nbo

By: Kate Davies Designs June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

knitting, writing3 needle bind off, bind off, Carbeth Cardigan, featured, garter stitch, knitting, Let Glasgow Flourish, necklines, shoulders, St Catherines, technique, three needle bind off24 Comments

In praise of the brilliantly simple 3 needle bind off

a chat with Nicole Pohl

Nicole tells us more about her work on the women of the Bluestocking circle

two new projects

News about Inkling, and The Bluestocking Club

black teacher

Celebrating the work of a trailblazing black British woman writer

other people’s stories

On time, memory, and what it means to tell someone else’s story.

on not being sure

A squeaky toy? A rusty gate? How do we begin to learn about birdsong?

mend

We celebrate the new edition of Wheesht with this essay exploring the creative work of mending and Celia Pym’s inspiring practice

We were able to put quite a few things in the KDD shop last week, including our brand new 10 Years in the Making book. The book is now available for wholesale too, so if you are a bookshop or yarn store (or know a bookshop or yarn store) who would like to stock this…

serendipity

By: Kate Davies Designs January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

business, landscape, writingattention economy, featured, happenstance, ideas, privacy, serendipity, Shoshana Zuboff, social media, surveillance capitalism, technology, writing56 Comments

A few of you asked about the changes KDD has made to the way we use big tech and social media – and about where to begin when considering making similar changes. As a starting point, I would suggest reading Shoshana Zuboff’s The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism, which I read back in the middle of…

working through winter

By: Kate Davies Designs October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

landscape, seasonal, writingAutumn, bipolar, depression, featured, mental health, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, winter, writing51 Comments

It is that time of year in Scotland when the clocks are about to “go back” (when our time reverts to GMT, rather than BST). My bipolar has always had seasonal triggers (generally in very early spring, and then following the autumn equinox) and for me, as for so many other people, this time of…

Glasgow’s atelier economy: then and now

By: Kate Davies Designs September 28, 2020September 28, 2020

History, making, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, Politics, writingbook, featured, Glasgow, History, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, Politics, publishing, slavery, writing8 Comments

Today I thought I’d share with you the introductory words I wrote for People MAKE Glasgow . For me – a former eighteenth-century specialist – the connections between Glasgow’s eighteenth-century past and its twenty-first century present have always been apparent, and I really enjoyed having the opportunity to write about those connections here. People MAKE…

four writing tips

By: Kate Davies Designs July 15, 2020July 15, 2020

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I’m in full-on, heads down, focused writing mode right now, completing our People Make Glasgow book. Someone sent me an email a couple of days ago asking about my approach to writing, and it occurred to me just how much I love to write, and that my approach to it was probably pretty simple –…

this oak is

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been really struck by how colourful the oak trees I see on my morning walks are at this time of year, with their wild orangey-red foliage so different to the surrounding trees heavy green. So here’s a poem I wrote in my head about those oaks this morning. The…