Tag: tour de france

  • All dressed in yellow

    All dressed in yellow

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    how our attitudes to colour are bound up with the stories we tell ourselves

  • le tour

    le tour

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    One thing we were really looking forward to on our trip was the opportunity to catch a stage of the Tour de France in person. Like many of you, the Tour has long formed the backdrop to my summer knitting and Tom, who is a keen cyclist, relishes it even more. I love the grand…

  • Allez! yarn success. . .design fail

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    Warning! Lengthy post, probably only of interest to knitters! One day in March, when I was still in residential rehab, I returned to my bed from a hard morning’s physio to find two packages. Both were promisingly squishy and clearly contained yarn. How exciting! I opened the first package. It came from one of my…

  • home straight

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    I know that some knitters hate finishing, but for me, it really is one of the great pleasures of producing a garment. How I enjoy trimming a steek. . . . . . grafting a shoulder seam so that it matches in pattern . . . . . . finding a nifty way to create…