palette – KDD & Co

brand new shades

the last day of advent – and a brand new palette!

Chromatic icons 2: Patrick Syme

a nineteenth-century Scot who shaped the world of colour

“where our brains and the universe meet”

By: Kate Davies Designs January 18, 2023

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Donna Smith talks about colour

Terri Laura talks colour

colour personalities and practical steps to plan a pallette

When we are working on a collection, Mel and I often knit several samples of a single design. This not only allows us to test and hone the pattern instructions (for maximum knit-ability, and knitterly-ness) but means we get to see how a design appears in alternate colourways. For Sterntaucher, we thought it would be…

schiehallion

By: Kate Davies Designs September 9, 2020September 9, 2020

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Morning, everyone! First up, I should let you know that the KDD shop is once more up and running, and subscriptions to the 10 Years in the Making club are now open! Next, I can finally tell you about our new flagship yarn, Schiehallion This is a yarn that’s been a long time in the…

kinds of blue

I’ve recently been enjoying designing blue things. This is my new shawl – Traigh – which works so well with Tarbet, one of our new shades of Milarrochy Tweed. Tarbet is a glorious mid blue with lots of colourful tweed neps, which make it really interesting. This rich, complex, maritime blue is my new obsession.…

Milarrochy Tweed: developing a palette

By: Kate Davies Designs November 10, 2017November 10, 2017

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There are many things to think about when putting together a palette of shades for hand knitting. Some schools of thought tend toward the representative: that there should always be, for example, a red or yellow. Others, meanwhile, might urge the wisdom of considering particular colour trends and preferences, of including “the colour of the moment”,…