The fifth door of my advent calendar is a continuation of the first door! There I showed you the Italian stitch cast on, which naturally transitions into a 1×1 rib cuff, that is, a cuff that consists of alternating right and purl stitches.
But maybe you would rather have a cuff of alternating two right and two purl stitches? No problem! In this case, you simply "sort" the stitches over after the cast-on and knit normally in your cuff. After a few rows, you won't see any transition and the 2×2 cuff will be perfect, with a nice cast-on edge. Look:
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I hate sewing threads and shall I tell you something horrible? My Nissa still has a trillion threads hanging from the back. It's lying on the sofa waiting for the needle. There's actually a nice easy way to reduce sewing threads by resorting to the Russian thread approach method right as you're knitting!
In this process, the end thread of the old ball and the beginning thread of the new one are simply intertwined and "hooked". Continue knitting and no more sewing necessary. This doesn't always work, but very often it does. You just have to do it! Invest a few seconds and save time later.
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(While watching the video, by the way, I noticed that a higher-contrast thread would probably have been a little better, but I think I understand also so what I mean. I leave it now so :)).
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Behind the 3rd door of my Maschenfeinen video tutorial advent calendar today is the provisional fence, which can be helpful if an edge is later to be joined openly with another edge, for example, or if you simply want to continue working later from this fence side in the opposite direction.
I first crochet stitches onto the working needle with an auxiliary thread, which I then knit off with the actual working thread. The unraveling of the cast on is quite simple, you just have to know from which side you start the unraveling!
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Wow, how happy I was yesterday about so much positive feedback on my video tutorial advent calendar! Thank you so much for your messages (many via Instagram), that was really good and motivates me immensely.
Today hides behind the second door a really simple, but absolutely effective tip. Because do you know the problem that when closing rounds (for example, caps) there is always such a gap right at the beginning, which you then close later when sewing the threads? In today's video I show you how you can prevent this gap with a few very simple movements and knit the cuff even more seamless.
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A wonderful good morning to the Saturday coffee with a little this and that from the knitting world and around Maschenfein.
The past week was a bit hectic and busy and marked by many new insights that I have gained while working for the Maschenfeinen video tutorial Advent calendar here on the blog. Youtube is a world all of its own, and you first have to immerse yourself in it when you start a project like this. Now it all works out great and this morning also opens soon the second door for you.
In the picture you can see the silky soft Road to China Light for a pair of blackbirds. I don't know yet if I'll need more than one skein per pair, but I'll keep you posted. You can knit these cuffs from just one skein, but I think I'd like them to be a little longer so they'll stay securely under the sleeve. Let's see.
By the way, at Janukke there is an Advent Mystery Knit Along again this year. Oh, what am I writing! There are even two! The mystery design "Small and Smaller" and the equally secret design "StriPING". I'm sure something wonderful will come out of it again and if you feel like it, you can join in at any time, I've created the two matching wool packs from ITO Rakuda directly for you for the sake of simplicity: The wool package to Small and Smaller and the wool package to StriPING. I have linked the respective pattern in the wool package. A Mystery Knit Along works like this: You don't know where the journey is going yet, but in this case you will receive the next part ofinstructionsttern on four dates in December. You will reinstructionsll pattern from Janukke in German as well. Small and Small will be a modular triangle shawl whereas StriPING will be a scarf. For both designs there is an extra Advent Ravelry thread at Janukke where you can watch the progress of all participants.
A little I was also on the knitting network just like that. I follow, for example, quite excited the test knitting to "Rakuda Love"(for example, here), the new tutorial from Janukke, which will be released soon. I really like the shawl, so of course we'll pack a matching wool package. Beautiful is the Beat Sweater by Ahribokatrinchen, but this tutorial is also still in-progress. Dreamlike is then also the huge scarf Bough by Janina Kallio.
Incidentally, Sandra Sonnenburg recently knitted a pretty variation on the classic OSAKA scarf and also wrote pattern for it , in which the color transitions run diagonally. She calls it a city scarf, matching the city coat from Crafteln, which she also sewed (I was even able to admire the coat in the flesh recently and of course I already know it from Meike, the woman behind Crafteln, the pattern kiosk).
Have a great weekend and a beautiful first advent!
Hello Advent, hello December! Already in the past month many, many larger and smaller gifts were knitted. Especially many, many caps, look again in November, there are over 150 (!) beautiful projects together.
I have in December still some smaller project among other things arm warmers from Road to China Light, which I might just knit stockinette stitch, because the yarn already looks so beautiful, on the needles. And a somewhat larger, but still small project, namely a shawl (the one on the picture) for Fräuelingeburtstag from Cashmere 6/28 in blue with yellow, embroidered hearts.
What do you have "on the needles" in December?
"On the Needles" is a series from Maschenfein. What are you knitting in December? What has become of your last projects? Will you tell us here? I'm looking forward to it! Just comment here under this post or link up in the link collection. On Instagram I use the hashtag #aufdennadelndezember (and quite deliberately you'll also find projects from the last years of the same month there). Join in there too!
You can link up for the whole month! Attention: You must put a backlink to this post or blog in your post, otherwise it will not work with the link tool. A backlink is nothing more than a link to this blog :)!
For all of you who are visiting here for the first time: Each month I'll collect your knitting projects by linking your respective blog posts to "On the Needles" here. You can find all past collections to browse in the On the Needles section.
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Hach, there it is finally, the December and I can reveal my Advent secret, on which I have been working quite intensively in recent days. With December, the time of anticipation with the good old tradition of the Advent calendar gets a rhythm. I have long thought about what I could do here on the blog, because there are so incredibly many beautiful actions on the net, do you need there also still something from me? But so quite clammy submerge was somehow also out of the question and suddenly came to me my own, very special Advent calendar idea, which took a lot of time last week, but just did not let me go.
Tadaaa! With me there is from today the Maschenfeinen video tutorial Advent calendar. Every day I open a door to a very short or slightly longer video with a special or a very classic technique or a special tip & trick for you. The topics remain my secret until I air them each day individually. Colorful jumbled up, as I just feel like it. So that it remains exciting. All videos I collect then of course also in my Youtube channel, so that you can also access it later at any time and you can also subscribe directly on Youtup.
Behind the first door hides today: The Italian stitch stop.
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The Italian cast-on is one of the most important techniques when it goes beyond the normal "cross stitch", because it makes just wonderfully pretty cuff edges. It is ideal for hats, for example. You can do this stitching in different ways, the simplest method in my eyes, I show you in this video (and by the way, I have illustrated it exactly the same way in my basics book). Only the twisting of the initial stitches must be prevented, but this is then again no problem by the correct "reading" of the stitches.
In the mood for spring? Here you can find spring yarns 
Neu - Sandnes 2407 - Sommerbaby 
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