🇬🇧 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…
🇬🇧 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…
🇬🇧 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….
🇬🇧 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…
EN | DE | NL 🇬🇧 One more week and then the Advent season begins. Time to think about what to give your loved ones for Christmas (or Sinterklaas / St. Nicholas). Time to share a few ideas for knitted gifts that can be done relatively quickly from relatively little yarn. Socks and Slippers Socks…
I lately discovered a rather old book and fell in love with it: The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; first published in 1911. It is about a little girl that has to move to her Uncle in Yorkshire. He is living in a big house beside the moor with a thousand rooms and many…
🇬🇧 For the 13th time, Stephen West of Westknits / Stephen & Penelope organized his autumnal Mystery Knit Along. This year is the third time I will participate. As last year, I will take it a bit slower. The sign-up is open since the 3rd of September ’22 and the first clue was published at…
🇬🇧 As the last years, I was very much looking forward to the autumn knit along from Joji Locatelli, the Joji Fall KAL. It started on the 1th of September and is still ongoing till 30th of November. I decided to participate with two shawl designs and one cowl. Yes, that is a lot, but…
🇬🇧 During summer, I knitted a light, one-skein shawl in fresh, vibrant colors. For fall, I knitted a version of the shawl using two skeins in muted colors. It’s perfectly representing the current transition from summer to fall. For the upcoming MolenMarkt, 1st October ’22, I prepared the pattern. It’s a modular design that lets…
EN | DE | NL 🇬🇧 The yo-yo heel (also known as jo-jo or boomerang heel) is a technique to work sock heels using short rows. Since it is the least bulky heel this is definitely my favorite sock heel variant. Also nice, the heel is symmetric and can be used in top-down as well…
