revealing our MKAL palettes
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All articles filed in club
ding ding!
All aboard!
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Why Margery Allingham?
Our new book club explores ten tip-top novels of detective fiction’s golden age
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what’s going on (in general)
a wee bit about our plans for coming months
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Allover winners!
congratulations to our amazing Allover knitters!
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forthcoming . . .
not long to wait . . .
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the bluestocking club
all about the Bluestocking club
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two new projects
News about Inkling, and The Bluestocking Club
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Sterntaucher
Designing hand-knit garments (and clear instructions for others to follow) can involve a lot of compromising, a lot of accepting that, for a multitude of reasons the finished thing won’t turn out quite as you initially envisaged. But sometimes you design something that looks and feels exactly as you expected. This design started with a…
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planning / spontaneity
I’ve found that perhaps the most difficult thing about the experience of the past few months has been having to change our business plans – often at incredibly short notice. Like all businesses, we’ve found ourselves continually having to alter our arrangements in response to circumstances, guidelines and restrictions that are continually changing. Our position…
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one week to go!
Well, there’s just one week to go until the start of our 10 Years in the Making Club, and we are all geared up and ready for three months of knitting fun! This is the fifth club we’ve run at KDD, and each one has been a little different. Our first – the Seven Skeins…
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10 years in the making club
Hello! We have a busy week ahead here at KDD – and the whole team is still hard at work preparing everything behind the scenes for three almost-simultaneous big launches: our People MAKE Glasgow book; our beautiful new Schiehallion yarn, and our new club. I’ll tell you all about Schiehallion later in the week, but…
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my journal and me
Do you use a bullet journal? I do – somewhat obsessively. I am not in the least ‘organised’ (in the way that word is generally understood anyway), and have never used a journal for organisational purposes (that role is fulfilled by the scrap of paper beside my desk that is repeatedly scrawled on, discarded, and…
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November
It has been a busy start to November. We’ve been working really hard finishing our new Milarrochy Heids book, and I have been preparing for a special event taking place later this week. It is a huge honour to be invited to speak at this event by the Federation of Small Business (from whom we…
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Craigallian hat
Hello! We’ve a bit of fun to share with you today . . . so without further ado, here is the Craigallian hat That’s me in the owl sweater, and you also see Mel (who manages the operational side of everything here), Claire (who moderates our Ravelry group with warmth and aplomb) and Tom (the…
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in progress
1. I’m now over half way through writing my new book. I’ve been enjoying the project immensely. Being able to just explore ideas and try out different ways of putting things across feels like a complete luxury. I genuinely love writing (which is probably the key to being any sort of writer, I think) and…
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