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Monk’s Dream

By: Kate Davies Designs February 8, 2025

design, jazz, knitting, Making Light, musiccolourwork, featured, jazz, Jon Hendricks, knit, knitting, mittens, Monk's Dream, music, stranded colourwork, Theolonius Monk3 Comments

prints on the sands of time

Blue Monk

a twelve bar blues and a two-tone pullover

Blue sunday

BOB the dog’s rhapsody in blue

Dizzy’s Business

By: Kate Davies Designs April 7, 2020April 7, 2020

Family, jazz, musicfamily, featured, jazz, Manchester, Wal Davies30 Comments

Good morning! I’m here with a rather different kind of diversion today. If you’ve read Handywoman, you’ll know what a huge influence my creative dad has been on me. Dad grew up in Prestwich, and after teaching himself to play alto and tenor saxophone as a teenager, worked as a bebop musician in 1960s Manchester,…

playing in the New Year

By: Kate Davies Designs January 9, 2015January 9, 2015

jazz, music, recovery, strokejazz, Manchester, music, Prestwich, Wally Davies54 Comments

Hello! I hope you’ve been enjoying the first days of 2015. We travelled down to England to spend some time with my mum and dad — the latter of whom is pictured above, on tenor sax. Its been quite a while since I’ve heard my dad play. One of the worst consequences of my stroke…