Tag: SpillyJane

  • Cross-Country Knitting: Volume 3

    Cross-Country Knitting: Volume 3

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    Bank Swallows by Charley Harper I have a great fondness for birds, and bird-inspired design. Like many designers, I adore the work of Charley Harper, because of the way that he manages to capture the bird-ness of a bird with such admirable economy of line. Harper somehow really got how birds – with their simple…

  • A conversation with SpillyJane

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    (SpillyJane’s Isidora Mittens.) Playing with pattern and colour are probably what I like most about designing. Over the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking about this a lot, and considering the different ways that pattern is put to use in the colourwork of the designers I admire. At the top of my list has…