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Kate Davies

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Writing books and designing knitwear in Kintyre. 🧶📚

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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 06/05/2026
Mary Moser’s tulips: capturing a key moment in garden history katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/05/06/m...
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Mary Moser's Tulip Studies: capturing a key moment in art and garden History
Discover the pioneering artist Mary Moser and her stunning tulip studies that celebrate 18th-century floral art and gardening history.
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 04/05/2026
We have a brand new book out! katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/25/k...
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Knitting Wester Ross
Celebrating the release of Knitting Wester Ross
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 03/05/2026
A broken tulip katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/05/03/a...
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A Broken Tulip
Discover the fascinating story of a bizarre, broken tulip and its connection to the Tulip Breaking Virus that changed horticulture forever.
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 02/05/2026
Knitting Bullshit katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/k...
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Unraveling AI's 'Knitting Bullshit'
'Unraveling AI's 'Knitting Bullshit'
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 19/01/2026
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 @ootlier.com · 17/01/2026
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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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 15/01/2026
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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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 18/12/2025
My films of 2025 katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/12/18/f...
Two young black boys gaze upwards into a reflective mirror in a still from RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys”
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 06/12/2025
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 @ootlier.com · 30/11/2025
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 @ootlier.com · 24/11/2025
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 @ootlier.com · 23/11/2025
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. www.shopkdd.com/ootlier-6-ru... #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #history #WW2
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 12/10/2025
Will you join us for “Knitting Wester Ross”? mailchi.mp/katedaviesde...
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 24/07/2025
Bealach an t-Suidhe // Bellochantuy #beach #coast #sea #blue #kintyre #argyll #landscape #seascape
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 23/07/2025
Inverse Converse Reverse #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #monochrome #classicmono #photography #skygazing #clouds #birds #photography #birdphotography
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 21/07/2025
a clattering of jackdaws #BlueSkyMonday #photography #ArtYear #skygazing #clouds #birds #photography #birdphotography #wildlife
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 06/07/2025
Would you like to join our summer knitalong, and make a Tonnach cardigan? katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/07/06/i...
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 08/06/2025
Would you like to be stranded with me? mailchi.mp/katedaviesde...
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Stranded with Kate Davies 🧶
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 25/05/2025
Becoming a joyful gardener katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/05/25/b...
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becoming a joyful gardener
learning to adapt
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 24/05/2025
Calm at Carskey #photography #photo #seascape #waves #sea #coast #calm #swans #kintyre
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 20/05/2025
Skalva #photography #photo #abstract #seascape #waves #sea #coast #kintyre
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 19/05/2025
A gardening success! katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/05/18/m...
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Meconopsis betonicifolia
excitement in the mill garden
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 16/05/2025
Dorchas / Solas Chordal drift #photography #blueskyphoto #photo #ocean #seascape #waves #coast #dark #light #kintyre
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 06/05/2025
Gliding no. 2 // Gliding no. 1 #photography #seascape #waves #surf #kintyre
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 06/05/2025
My favourite tulip (this year) katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/05/05/p...
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peak tulip?
my favourite variety, and some garden birds
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 04/05/2025
Wave Dancer Big clet / Little clet #photography #seascape #landscape #waves #surf #surfing #kintyre
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 01/05/2025
The edge of silence Peaks / Troughs #photography #seascape #waves #surf #kintyre #jura
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 28/04/2025
Who knew tulip colours could be so divisive? katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/28/c...
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“cashmere” and “old corsets”
tulip value judgments
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 28/04/2025
Thalassotheoi // Restless (f)light #photography #seascape #coast #waves #surf #birds #kintyre
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 26/04/2025
"Many white horses" #photography #seascape #waves #kintyre
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 26/04/2025
For Mend in Public day, an essay about the creative work of mending and repair katedaviesdesigns.com/2021/03/14/m...
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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
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 25/04/2025
Fare forward, traveller! #photography #seascape #kintyre #surf
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 24/04/2025
Eowyn #photography #seascape #kintyre #storm
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 22/04/2025
Being able to grow tulips is one of the many delights of my new home katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/22/t...
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tulip fever
here come the blooms!
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 20/04/2025
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? katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/20/e...
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egg-speriment
plant-dyed, plant-decorated eggs
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 18/04/2025
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
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 14/04/2025
enjoying tulips katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/13/n...
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(not) tiptoeing and tulips
the first of (hopefully) many blooms
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 10/04/2025
Carved by Water
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 08/04/2025
I like pebbly faces katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/08/p...
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Pareidolia
pebbly faces
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 07/04/2025
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.
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 02/04/2025
The colours of spring here at the mill garden katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/02/c...
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colours of spring
the mill garden in April
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 01/04/2025
Larking about in Hastings and St Leonard’s @knitsonik.bsky.social katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/01/l...
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Larking about
a special week with a dear friend
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 27/03/2025
Dunaverty: Storm
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Ootlier @ootlier.com · 31/03/2025
Dunaverty: Repose
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 31/03/2025
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 katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/03/31/i...
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In print
pick up an Ootlier print
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 11/03/2025
Sarah Neal wrote this lovely piece about KDD for the last issue of Knitting Magazine katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/03/11/t...
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Thank you, Knitting Magazine
An article from issue 257
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 08/03/2025
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
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Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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 ...
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 01/03/2025
All things counter, original, spare, strange katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/03/01/s...
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Sprung Rhythm
all things counter, original, spare, strange . . .
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 28/02/2025
Smocket: utility, comfort - and pockets katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/02/28/s...
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Smocket
utility, comfort – and pockets
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