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Everything (!) that is going on at Heathland Knits - from new yarn over KALS to newly discovered machine knitting skills.
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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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An extra collar against the cool chill
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 I knitted myself a small collar for the chilly morning and evening hours. It’s still not washed or blocked, but I already wanted to try it out. I’m rather sensitive to the cold in my neck or on the shoulders when the shirt neckline is too wide.How about you? 🇩🇪 Ich habe mir einen…
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Hybrid Work: The Faroese shawl
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 From January till May, I attended the “Designing & Creating Shawls KAL” with Sarah Etchison at the Machine Knit Community. I just finished the shawl I was working on during the KAL. It is combining rectangular and triangular geometries. I’ve wanted to knit a Faroese shawl with the typical swing shape for a long…
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WIP: New Spring Shawl “Helleborus”
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Inspired by the currently blooming Christmas rose, I am currently working on a new spring shawl in green and purple. It will be an asymmetrically knitted triangular shawl in which a Fair Isle pattern will merge into a light lace pattern. The photo shows a first prototype. I am currently working on the design…
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Winding Yarn Samples
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Last year I took part in a yarn winding workshop by Wallace Sewell Design Studio. Wallace Sewell designs (woven) fabrics with asymmetrical blocks and stripes in different sizes. To try out the interaction of colors and size of elements, they wrap yarns carefully and straight around a solid base. The stripes vary in width.…
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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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How Lace / Eyelet pattern work on a Brother Knitting Machine
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 2024 is still young, so I guess you all still remember the Building Block Blanket KnitAlong from last year. What I missed to tell was, that I had the honor to design one of the squares for the Blanket. I designed the letter “G” block! At the time I was about to design the…
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Westknits HiberKnitAlong ’23
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 In this run, I did the cast on of my HiberKnitAlong project for the HiberKnitAlong by Westknits on time, and so I actually finished in January. The HiberKnitAlong runs every year from 12/26 to the end of January in the following year – this time from 12/26/2023 to the end of January 2024. This…
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Building Block Blanket – A year in a blanket
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 In Germany they say “Gut Ding will Weile haben” (good things take time). That’s why I took the time to knit a worthy edge for my blanket – I have chosen the picot edge which took me at least 24 working hours plus hand seaming of the gaps. I still managed to finish it…
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Building Block Blanket – Sep. / Oct. (MKC KAL 23)
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 The year is almost over and the blanket is almost finished. Only four letter blocks are still missing, which will be knitted in November. December is reserved for joining the blocks into a blanket and working an edge. When I lay out all the blocks next to each other, it’s impressive how many different…
