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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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Frolicking Field Shawl – Westknits Yarn Along 2023
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 With the end of June the annual Yarn Along (YAL) hosted by Stephen and Penelope, a local yarn store in Amsterdam, and Stephen West came to an end, too. Every year, knitters from all over the world can sign up to the special yarn club, which will provide them with beautiful hand-dyed yarn in…
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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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Shop Update “First Frost”
Meanwhile, the first snow has fallen and the frost bites your nose, early morning. Matching, the next shop update will contain the set “First Frost”. The shop update is the last for the year 2021 and is scheduled for Wednesday, 08.12.2021 at 4pm, Amsterdam time. This update is all about the beautiful colors of winter, ice, and snow. Check out…
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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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Shop Update “Falling Leaves”
When I’m standing in the garden, the trees currently show all colors of yellows, orange, and brown 🍁 And here is a sneak-Peak of next Saturday’s (20.11.2021) shop update at four Amsterdam time. This update is all about the beautiful colors of the falling leaves. Check out the shop! 🇩🇪 Wenn ich im Garten stehe, zeigen die Bäume derzeit alle…
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Shop Launch!
🇬🇧 Sinterklaas is arriving today in the Netherlands and he is bringing a bag full of yarn! Heathland Knits finally launched the shop on Etsy, starting with beautiful sock yarn, sock minis, and sock sets. 🇩🇪 Sinterklaas kommt heute in den Niederlanden an und bringt einen Sack voller Garn mit! Heathland Knits hat endlich den Shop auf Etsy eröffnet, beginnend…
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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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How it started
🇬🇧 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 like to offer some of…
