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…
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…
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…
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…
🇬🇧 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…
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,…
🇬🇧 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…
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,…
🇬🇧 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…
🇬🇧 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…
