About Heathland Knits

It all started with a stitch and became a passion in life: Heathland Knits. Heathland Knits is located in the Netherlands in the middle of the beautiful heath landscape of North Brabant, which inspired the name.

My knitting passion started several years ago and I was not aware at that moment how much knitting will influence my life in the future. I am and always have been artistic. Therefore, it was only a matter of time till I started experimenting with dyeing, spinning, weaving, and designing my own pattern. Knitting is calming me down – and as a computer scientist, knitting is to me like an algorithm that I can touch. Knitting is not only knitting. It is math, it is logic, it is harmony. It is fascinating how an increase here and a decrease at another position together forms figures and pattern.

I especially like to create something with value in our throw-away society; value that is generated by the choice of the raw materials and the time invested in the craft of knitting.

End of 2020, I decided to publish my first original pattern, and in July 2021 I started selling my own hand-dyed yarn for selected projects. I want to inspire creativity by providing designs, education, and complementing hand-dyed yarn to the knitting community encouraging slow fashion and promoting “knit-to-last” projects that focus on quality and longevity.

This page will share some additional information about the yarn, pattern, and news. To keep up to date, consider following me on instagram, too.

Heathland Knits is investing a lot of time and love in creating also free instructions and the videos. If you like what you see we would be delighted to receive a donation to the “virtual coffee fund”.

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