CRAFT CANDY !!!

Second stall of the year and it has come round oh so quickly..... this weekend Knit and Destroy will be setting up in the Millenium galleries in Sheffield for this sure to be awesome craft fair...



The Craft Candy fairs are always good fun and full of fantastic stalls!

Click on the poster to find out more about the Craft Candy Collective and see photos of previous fairs!

If you are anywhere near Sheffield you should come down and have a gander!


See you there.

KD x

New CAT on the block!!!

Hello there!

Have you heard...there's a new cat on the block?! BANDIT...She's a rebel cat with a cause. The newest member of the cat gang, and she's the leader. Here she is hanging out in the corner of knit and destroy HQ.



Bandit is a tough fun lovin' little kitty, she's always causing some sort of mishchief either on her own or with the gang! BANDIT is now available in the shop.


On the theme of cats and gangs, here is one of my favourite gangs of girls with an awesome song about cats, here are Mika Miko in...business cats!

Do you HEART knitting too?!

Hi there,

As you might know (or have guessed) by now...I love knitting, and until now I have stuck to knitting all my products. Today sees the launch of the new Knit and Destroy logo brooch - available in the online shop now!


I decided that the original 'knit and destroy' logo was too good to not do something with...as it no longer features on the website I thought i would make a brooch with it on so that you can show your love of knitting in all situations by sporting this awesome printed acrylic brooch!

Each brooch comes on a square of knitted fabric, here they are getting pinned on ready to be sent out to my lovely customers!

More soon, KD x

....because I haven't got a cat....

...I make lots of cat related things to fill that furry cat shaped hole in my life. This week has been very cat-centred with a big order for 'smoky' cushions' from Made in the Shade in Glasgow. I took them all downstairs to pack them, and look what they got up to when my back was turned....only a cat pyramid!!!

And I think they might just have been egged on by that cheeky masked cat atop the pyramid, she is a new cat on the block and there will be more about her soon, for now, the tale of Smoky...

Smoky is a friendly boy cat, one of those cats that always seems to be outside.

He belonged to our nextdoor neighbours at my old house and I think he spent more time roaming the back yards and basking on our flat bathroom roof than anywhere else, he just couldn't resist that warm sunny spot.

I would feed him (he was skinny) and we used to give him catnip for a treat and he loved it! This is what his face looked like when basking in that particular place....smoky the contented cat.

More tales of knitting (and possibly of cats too) soon.

KD x

All the....small things....

This month at Knit and Destroy HQ it's been the small things that have been making me happy and making the day-to-day more enjoyable...

Having an order to work to. Big thank you to Hannah Zakari for keeping me busy making things through January. All this lot is now on sale in their lovely shop in Edinburgh.

Home made coconut flapjack, anyone who knows me will know that tea breaks are a very important part of any day for me. For those teas to be accompanied by deeelicious home made flapjack is heaven!

And when I'm not having a tea break, I'm knitting...these knitting machines are fairly noisy things, and I usually amuse myself with music or audio books while I work. These stylin' stereo headphones I got for x-mas drown out the metallic whooshings of the machines leaving me with pure Stephen Fry's voice reading The Deathly Hallows...heaven!!!

Things for 10p...yes that'r right not 25p or 50p...10p! I picked up this awesome knitting pattern from Save The Children in Chestrerfield, it has already assisted in unearthing an amazing 'my mum knitted me a white bikini when I was 14' story from the lovely cynthia who I used to work with at Help The Aged.

Hope you have some 'small things' too

KD x

First stall of 2011....and some roller skating!

THIS WEEKEND...I am venturing out of the studio and taking a small selection of knits to a stall at Pond's Forge in Sheffield.

But this aint yr average craft fair, oh no...there will be other stalls full af awesome stuff to buy but, first and foremost, what's going down at Ponds Forge this Saturday is a Roller Derby Bout, wooooop!

Click the poster to take you to Sheffield Steel Rollergirls website for more information on the event.

So please do come along, buy some crafts and cupcakes and watch some very talented ladies (and men) do their Roller Derby thang!!!

Be there or I'll set the rollergrrls on you.

KD x

2010...my year in knit (and other things)...

There were a lot of firsts for me and Knit and Destroy last year, here are some of the highlights from 2010...

Making a new website, all real stuff like...

And making the catalogue

First ever festival, and first go at hand-screen printed tote-bags, first Sugar Paper craft event at a festival.

First trip to Shetland, which involved my first ever knitting conference, solo holiday and meeting of one of my favourite Harry Potter actors.

Proper camping holiday...just 2 layers of fabric between us and the elements!

Visited a Ye olde Theme Park on the top of a hill in Barcelona accessed by funicular railway!!!

First Solo Exhibition

First stand at the big ass Knitting and Stitching show.

And to top all of that I met John Waters!!!

I hope you all had a good 2010, and have an even better 2011.

KD x