Kate Davies
@katedaviesdesigns.com
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Writing books and designing knitwear in Kintyre. 🧶📚
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My films of 2025
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Ootlier
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Rubha nan Sasan #13
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#Landscape
#seascape
#Scotland
#Highlands
#WesterRoss
#LochEwe
#Architecture
#Concrete
#Archaeology
#BlueskyArtShow
#Art
#Infrared
#History
#WW2
#WWII
#Arctic
#ArcticConvoy
#CoastalDefence
#LightAndShadow
#Monochrome
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Ootlier
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Rubha nan Sasan #12
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#Landscape
#seascape
#Scotland
#Highlands
#WesterRoss
#LochEwe
#Architecture
#Concrete
#Archaeology
#BlueskyArtShow
#Art
#Infrared
#History
#WW2
#WWII
#Arctic
#ArcticConvoy
#CoastalDefence
#LightAndShadow
#Monochrome
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3 months ago
Rubha nan Sasan #10
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#Landscape
#seascape
#Scotland
#Highlands
#WesterRoss
#LochEwe
#Architecture
#Concrete
#Archaeology
#BlueskyArtShow
#Art
#Infrared
#History
#WW2
#WWII
#Arctic
#ArcticConvoy
#CoastalDefence
#LightAndShadow
#Monochrome
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My films of 2025
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4 months ago
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Ootlier
4 months ago
Rubha nan Sasan #7
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#Landscape
#seascape
#sea
#Scotland
#Highlands
#WesterRoss
#LochEwe
#Architecture
#Concrete
#Archaeology
#BlueskyArtShow
#Art
#Infrared
#History
#WW2
#WWII
#Arctic
#ArcticConvoy
#CoastalDefence
#LightAndShadow
#Monochrome
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Ootlier
5 months ago
Rubha nan Sasan #4
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#Landscape
#Coast
#Scotland
#Highlands
#WesterRoss
#LochEwe
#Architecture
#Concrete
#Archaeology
#BlueskyArtShow
#Art
#Infrared
#History
#WW2
#WWII
#Arctic
#ArcticConvoy
#CoastalDefence
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Ootlier
5 months ago
Rubha nan Sasan #1
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#LandscapePhotography
#Landscape
#Coast
#Scotland
#Highlands
#WesterRoss
#LochEwe
#Architecture
#Concrete
#Archaeology
#BlueskyArtShow
#Art
#Infrared
#History
#WW2
#WWII
#Arctic
#ArcticConvoy
#CoastalDefence
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Ootlier
5 months ago
Ootlier 6 is published today. Issue 6 explores the legacy of military remains at Rubha nan Sasan ("the point of difficulty") where a hastily-constructed coastal defence battery at Loch Ewe was abandoned 80 years ago.
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#photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#history
#WW2
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Will you join us for “Knitting Wester Ross”?
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6 months ago
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Ootlier
9 months ago
Bealach an t-Suidhe // Bellochantuy
#beach
#coast
#sea
#blue
#kintyre
#argyll
#landscape
#seascape
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Ootlier
9 months ago
Inverse Converse Reverse
#blackandwhite
#blackandwhitephoto
#monochrome
#classicmono
#photography
#skygazing
#clouds
#birds
#photography
#birdphotography
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Ootlier
9 months ago
a clattering of jackdaws
#BlueSkyMonday
#photography
#ArtYear
#skygazing
#clouds
#birds
#photography
#birdphotography
#wildlife
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Would you like to join our summer knitalong, and make a Tonnach cardigan?
katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/07/06/i...
10 months ago
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Would you like to be stranded with me?
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Stranded with Kate Davies đź§¶
https://mailchi.mp/katedaviesdesigns/stranded?e=9f2e79360e
10 months ago
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Becoming a joyful gardener
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becoming a joyful gardener
learning to adapt
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/05/25/becoming-a-joyful-gardener/
11 months ago
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Ootlier
11 months ago
Calm at Carskey
#photography
#photo
#seascape
#waves
#sea
#coast
#calm
#swans
#kintyre
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Ootlier
11 months ago
Skalva
#photography
#photo
#abstract
#seascape
#waves
#sea
#coast
#kintyre
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A gardening success!
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Meconopsis betonicifolia
excitement in the mill garden
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/05/18/meconopsis-betonicifolia/
11 months ago
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Ootlier
11 months ago
Dorchas / Solas Chordal drift
#photography
#blueskyphoto
#photo
#ocean
#seascape
#waves
#coast
#dark
#light
#kintyre
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Ootlier
12 months ago
Gliding no. 2 // Gliding no. 1
#photography
#seascape
#waves
#surf
#kintyre
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My favourite tulip (this year)
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peak tulip?
my favourite variety, and some garden birds
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/05/05/peak-tulip/
12 months ago
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Ootlier
12 months ago
Wave Dancer Big clet / Little clet
#photography
#seascape
#landscape
#waves
#surf
#surfing
#kintyre
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Ootlier
12 months ago
The edge of silence Peaks / Troughs
#photography
#seascape
#waves
#surf
#kintyre
#jura
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Who knew tulip colours could be so divisive?
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“cashmere” and “old corsets”
tulip value judgments
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/28/cashmere-and-old-corsets/
12 months ago
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Ootlier
12 months ago
Thalassotheoi // Restless (f)light
#photography
#seascape
#coast
#waves
#surf
#birds
#kintyre
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Ootlier
12 months ago
"Many white horses"
#photography
#seascape
#waves
#kintyre
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For Mend in Public day, an essay about the creative work of mending and repair
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mend
We celebrate the new edition of Wheesht with this essay exploring the creative work of mending and Celia Pym’s inspiring practice
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/03/14/mend/
12 months ago
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Ootlier
12 months ago
Fare forward, traveller!
#photography
#seascape
#kintyre
#surf
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Ootlier
12 months ago
Eowyn
#photography
#seascape
#kintyre
#storm
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Being able to grow tulips is one of the many delights of my new home
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tulip fever
here come the blooms!
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/22/tulip-fever/
12 months ago
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Seriously, what could be more fun than creating a beautifully decorated Easter egg using a cabbage, an onion, some golden syrup, a few foraged leaves and an old pair of tights?
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egg-speriment
plant-dyed, plant-decorated eggs
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/20/egg-speriment/
12 months ago
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Do you love decorated eggs as much as I do? Feast your eyes on Venetia Newall’s amazing collection
katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/18/a...
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An egg at Easter
The inspiring work of Venetia Newall
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/18/an-egg-at-easter/
about 1 year ago
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enjoying tulips
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(not) tiptoeing and tulips
the first of (hopefully) many blooms
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/13/not-tiptoeing-and-tulips/
about 1 year ago
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Ootlier
about 1 year ago
Carved by Water
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I like pebbly faces
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Pareidolia
pebbly faces
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/08/paradeloia/
about 1 year ago
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I contributed an introduction to some newly-edited letters of Phillis Wheatley Peters, the first woman of African descent to publish poetry in Britain & the United States.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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The colours of spring here at the mill garden
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colours of spring
the mill garden in April
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/02/colours-of-spring/
about 1 year ago
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Larking about in Hastings and St Leonard’s
@knitsonik.bsky.social
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Larking about
a special week with a dear friend
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/01/larking-about/
about 1 year ago
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Kate Davies
Ootlier
about 1 year ago
Dunaverty: Storm
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Ootlier
about 1 year ago
Dunaverty: Repose
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Making Light members: today’s the last day to use your club discount, valid on everything in our shop, including Tom’s recently published book and prints
@ootlier.bsky.social
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In print
pick up an Ootlier print
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/03/31/in-print/
about 1 year ago
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Sarah Neal wrote this lovely piece about KDD for the last issue of Knitting Magazine
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Thank you, Knitting Magazine
An article from issue 257
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/03/11/thank-you-knitting-magazine/
about 1 year ago
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Happy international women’s day, sisters! Here’s the blanket I created with
@knitsonik.bsky.social
to celebrate the lives of 30 diverse creative women from Britain’s first Black head teacher, Beryl Gilroy to composer Daphne Oram
www.balanceforbetterblanket.com/the-blanket
about 1 year ago
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Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet)
about 1 year ago
In Edinburgh or Glasgow? Have excess art and craft supplies? Donate them to Scottish Design Exchange's Art Bank which passes them on so disadvantaged children can get access to art
www.scottishdesignexchange.com/pages/art-ba...
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SDX Art Bank
Do you have unwanted Art Supplies that you would like to donate? The Scottish Design Exchange launch Scotland’s first art bank to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds reach their potential as ...
https://www.scottishdesignexchange.com/pages/art-bank?_pos=3&_sid=f055a7118&_ss=r
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All things counter, original, spare, strange
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Sprung Rhythm
all things counter, original, spare, strange . . .
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/03/01/sprung-rhythm/
about 1 year ago
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Smocket: utility, comfort - and pockets
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Smocket
utility, comfort – and pockets
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/02/28/smocket/
about 1 year ago
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Lilias Day
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Lilias Day
a making light bonus
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/02/26/lilias-day-2/
about 1 year ago
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snowstorm: steam-boat
a winter maelstrom
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/02/25/snowstorm-steam-boat/
about 1 year ago
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Dirken
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Dirken
four fold symmetry and pine-cone structure
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/02/23/dirken/
about 1 year ago
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