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Knitting Wester Ross by Kate Davies
£25.00
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Join Kate, Tom and friends on a magical Highland journey.
Wester Ross is sometimes described as Scotland’s last wilderness, but this extraordinary place of high mountains, dramatic lochs and sweeping coastline has also been profoundly shaped by community and culture. Here, Pictish artists carved their mysterious stones, Bronze Age settlers built innovative roundhouses, and resourceful crofters shaped the landscape through the seasonal rhythms of shoreline and shieling.
Taking inspiration from the objects, places and people of Wester Ross, Kate is joined by local writers Karen Buchanan and Jeremy Fenton to explore the landscape’s important human story. In Kate’s design collection, you’ll find a warm cardigan in memory of the Arctic Convoys, a lace shawl whose edging references an innovative use of shells as tools, and signature stranded colourwork inspired by local industry and Gaelic song.
Kate commemorates the life of teacher and activist Kay Matheson with the iconic Skirt of Destiny, while talented guest designer Lucy Hague contributes a showstopping Pictish wrap featuring reversible travelling cables. Illustrated throughout with Tom’s glorious photography, this book will inspire you to pick up your needles and take a trip to Wester Ross.13 patterns are included in the book
Contributors: Tom Barr, Karen Buchanan, Kate Davies, Jeremy Fenton and Lucy Hague.
136 pp. Designed and printed here in Scotland.
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My name is Kate Davies. I live by Scotland’s West Highland Way where I love writing, knitting walking, and swimming in the wonderful landscapes that surround me. I find that each of these activities has a creative and a critical dimension and the best of possible worlds is one in which I productively combine them all.
Knitting is one of my greatest loves, and in 2010 (when a stroke at the age of 36 ended my academic career) I began Kate Davies Designs (KDD) creating digital patterns for hand knitters. The business lent me a platform to combine my skills in research, writing and design, and rapidly grew into a small publishing company through which I began to produce my own books. In Colours of Shetland (2012), Yokes (2014), Buachaille: At Home in The Highlands (2015), The Book of Haps (2016), Shetland Oo (2016), Inspired by Islay(2017), Happit (2017), West Highland Way (2018) Shore (2018) and Milarrochy Heids (2018) I bring my passions for historical writing and practical creativity together. Nothing makes me happier than seeing knitters all over the world enjoying my books and making and wearing my designs.
Category: Book, Fingering & 4-Ply Pattern, Headwear, Kate Davies Designs, Knitting, Pattern, Shawl/Scarf, Sport Pattern, Top, £20 - £29.99