🇬🇧 It’s October, which is fondly called Socktober among knitters. I’m not sure who exactly used the term for the first time. In the meantime, Socktober is internationally known and October has been declared THE sock month. For this reason, I would like to collect and share a few links, leading to pages where you…
🇬🇧 Françoise from Aroha Knits is every now and then hosting the 5 shawls in 5 days challenge. Françoise is a knitwear designer and design coach living in Texas having Franco-Māori American Australian roots. Independent of the challenge, I would always recommend to check out her page Aroha Knits. The goal of the challenge is…
🇬🇧 The following three colors are “Citrine”, “Milky Amber”, and “Golden Amber”. This series of yellow to brown yarn with brown-orange speckles can be combined to build a fade set. The colors are already inspired by the coming autumn days. The base of the yarn is a butter-soft blend of Merino and Tencel. This yarn…
🇬🇧 In general, I think it’s absolutely fair to ask for payment for a knitting or crochet pattern. Actually, there is always a lot of work and time involved in creating patterns. Of course, you can argue that most patterns “only” reuse certain basic patterns and therefore payment is not justified, because someone else has…
🇬🇧 The time has come: the dyeing of the first yarns for the Molenmarkt has begun. And my first three colors are “Quartz Crystal”, “Blue Lace Agate”, and “Blue Topas”. This series of gray to blue yarn with brown-orange speckles can be combined to build a fade set. The base of the yarn is a…
🇬🇧 Recently, I was asked to participate at the local “Molenmarkt”. The market is taking place from April to October, once a month. At the market local food that is produced in the neighborhood is sold. The last market of this year’s season will be a non-food market. Therefore, I was asked if I would…
🇬🇧 The Pantone colors of the year 2021 are “Ultimate gray” (obviously a grey) and “Illuminating” (a very lemony yellow). The color combination inspired the dyeing process of the next yarn base that I tried. This is a sport weight Corridale held in grey with traces of bright yellow. This yarn has quite some character….
🇬🇧 I got some Bluefaced Leicester (BFL) yarn in DK / Light Worsted from the UK. Since I had more then one skein of that yarn, I decided to do a set that is fading from grey to pink. I discovered the berry pink when I dyed the color “Heathland sunset” and I liked the…
🇬🇧 Maybe I was bitten by a fairy when I dyed this Merino Sport weight yarn. I was up for some speckle fun! And I will do it again. This yarn is currently turned into a shawl with some purple contrast stripes. I will update this post, when the shawl is done. 🇩🇪 Vielleicht wurde…
🇬🇧 Recently, I bought several different yarn bases to try them for dyeing. This is a beautiful Shetland Aran-weight yarn that I dyed in shades of grey and pink with some hints of gold-yellow. I was inspired by a golden sunset over heathland while already the first mist builds up. This yarn will be perfect…
