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.

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.

Have fun watching!