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Building Block Blanket – February Review (MKC KAL 23)
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 As I mentioned before, I joined the Machine Knit Community (MKC) in early January. This year, the MKC is hosting a year-long KnitAlong (KAL) called the “2023 Building Blocks KAL.” During this KAL, four to five squares will be knitted each month using the knitting machine. They will be joined at the end of…
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Year long machine knit KAL (MKC KAL 23)
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 As I mentioned in my second to last post, I joined the Machine Knit Community (MKC) in early January. This year, the MKC is hosting a year-long KnitAlong (KAL) called the “2023 Building Blocks KAL.” During this KAL, four to five squares will be knitted each month using the knitting machine. They will be…
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A day at the museum …
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Last week I had the opportunity to visit the “Tuch und Technik, Textilmuseum Neumünster”. The museum shows the production of yarns and fabrics from the Middle Ages to industrialization. At different exhibits you can try out different steps from the wool to the finished cloth by yourself, before you can look at the machines…
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Machine Knitting Progress
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 For this year, I’ve decided to use my knitting machine more. It’s perfect for trying out new color-ways or knitting quick test pieces. I would also love to knit a whole sweater or other garment. Currently, however, I am still a complete beginner. My machine is a bit temperamental and likes to throw the…
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The Bigger (Simple) Thing
🇬🇧 Quick update about “The Simple Thing” Shawl. I knitted a second one with two strands of yarn held together! This one is knitted from one skein of sports weight white-speckled Merino yarn and some lace weight silk-suri-alpaca-blend. It measures 190 x 35 cm. The pattern can be adapted to various sizes, yarn weight, color depending on personal preferences. Finde…
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Westknits HiberKnitAlong ’22
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Yes, I’m late to the party. The HiberKnitAlong from Westknits already started on December 26, 2022, but I didn’t cast on my project until the new year. The KnitAlong is still going all of January, so why should I stress? This year’s Hiberknitting shawl is the “Aurora Cabin Shawl”. It is knitted from five…
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End-of-the-year review 2022
🇬🇧 Especially the end of the year was an emotional roller coaster for Heathland Knits. My followers on Instagram exploded due to a little real, I was attending to my very first (and bitter cold) Christmas Market, and I managed to publish a pattern that got me on the first page of the Ravelry pattern search. I am not used…
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Merry Christmas
🇬🇧 Christmas is the time at the end of the year where many people finally find some time to wind down and spend quality time with families and friends. It is also a time for Christmas traditions, like setting up Christmas tree, preparing elaborate family dinners, and sharing presents – and for knitters maybe finishing those last pair of socks…
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The Simple Thing (Shawl)
🇬🇧 It is not a scarf, it is not a shawl, it is just a simple little knitted thing in-between that can be easily knitted from one to infinite skeins of yarn. This small scarf-like shawl is worked sideways in rows starting and ending at a narrow tip. The shawl is worked in garter stitch. Needed skills are therefore basically…
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Hand-dyed yarn: Stripes and Pooling
🇬🇧 For me, hand-dyed skeins of yarns are fascinating. Each skein is unique because the dyeing is never perfectly reproducible. That’s what makes the yarn so special when you look at it and work with it. But it can also happen that you see a skein of yarn and think it’s just great, but when you actually start knitting with…
