Hand dyed Yarn
News of the original Heathland Knits yarns
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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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One Skein (Beginners) Ideas
🇬🇧 Sometimes you see that one shawl or cardigan and you decide you’d like to start knitting. But sometimes it’s the other way around. Maybe you just want to start knitting. Maybe because knitting is having a revival, maybe because it’s supposed to be comforting, maybe because your best friend knits and you’ve become curious. As a motivated knitting beginner,…
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New Color Overview
🇬🇧 After receiving more and more questions about Heathland Knits yarns, there is now an overview page of the colorways that are regularly dyed. These can be found here from now on: Color Overview 🇩🇪 Nachdem immer öfter Anfragen zu den Heathland Knits Garnen gekommen sind, gibt es nun eine Übersichtsseite der Farbvarianten, die regelmäßig gefärbt werden. Diese können ab…
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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…
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First Frost – a Blue Fade Set
🇬🇧 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 butter-soft blend of Merino and…
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Ultimate gray and Illuminating
🇬🇧 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. 🇩🇪 Die Pantone-Farben des Jahres…
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Mist over heathland – fade set
🇬🇧 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 interaction with grey. I knitted…
