Hand dyed Yarn
News of the original Heathland Knits yarns
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This years HiberKnitting colors: Cozy Valentine
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 The Hiberknitting is usually starting at 26th December, the second day of Christmas and it is running throughout January. That means it’s ending just before Valentine’s Day. That’s why I chose the day as inspiration for my color combination called “Cozy Valentine”. At the time I was dying the yarn, the roses in my…
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A glimpse behind the scenes
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Let me show you how many separate steps are needed to create Heathland Knits high quality, beautiful speckled and variegated yarn. 🇩🇪 Ich möchte Ihnen zeigen, wie viele einzelne Schritte erforderlich sind, um das hochwertige, schön gesprenkelte und bunt gemusterte Garn von Heathland Knits herzustellen. 🇳🇱 Ik zal je laten zien hoeveel afzonderlijke stappen…
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Frolicking Field – Spring Colors
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Inspired by the name and the view of the early spring fields during a morning walk last year, I dyed a special yarn set for Stephen Wests Pattern “Frolicking Field Shawl”. The result were three new colors called: Near the Forest, Wheatgrass, and Purple Wild Flowers that I want to show here. With the…
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New colors coming – Glaciers Fade
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 It was about time to do some brewing in the dye pot. The result is a wonderful cool fade color set that will be dropped to the shop later this year. Not all colors have names, yet. But I am very much in love with them. 🇩🇪 Es war an der Zeit, mal wieder…
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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…
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The Secret Garden
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 gardens – and one is…
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First summer colors
🇬🇧 The first summer colors are dyed! The colors are dyed on the Pure Merino Sport base. A pure merino yarn with a length of 310m per 100g – light and yet strong enough for summer T-shirts, sweaters, or shawls. The first four colors form a gradient from peachy orange to cool lilac. The last color is a beautiful yarn…
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Spring Shop Update, Etsy, and more
🇬🇧 Somehow everything is overshadowed by the events in Ukraine and many things seem unimportant to me. Over the winter I worked on a shawl design and dyed wool in spring colors. And now? Now my heart is heavy and the colorful wool seems unimportant. At the same time I am very grateful that I live in a (still) safe…
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Shop Update “Hiberknitting”
🇬🇧 One more month, then the HiberknitAlong by Westknits will start on the 12/26/2021. This year we are knitting together one of two shawls from Stephen’s new book, Hiberknitting 2. The shawls are the Spiraling Cables Triangle and the Cabled Trellis Shawl. Since I already have the first volume and think it’s pretty good, I got the second volume, too.…
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Falling Leaves – an autumn fade set
🇬🇧 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 fingering weight is almost too…
