Our Christmas shawl 2024

It's crazy how time flies. Or rather, how it races by. We had to count it ourselves in disbelief, but it's true: The Elli stole is already our sixth Christmas shawl! The name was not chosen without reason - this year's Mother's Day shawl Lotti was named after Marisa's grandmother on her mother's side, while Elli represents her father's side. It always touches me when the names of designs are not chosen at random, but have their own story.

The design development of the scarf began back in the summer at our team meeting in the Mecklenburg Lake District. In addition to the basic structure and a pattern idea, we also decided on the yarns at that time.

In keeping with tradition for the Christmas shawls, a yarn from Lamana is also featured this time: Como is - as you probably already know - a pure merino yarn and belongs to the "Superlight family". Despite its considerable meterage (120 meters per 25 grams), it is light and fluffs up wonderfully after bathing.

This year, it is complemented by a new addition: Brushlight from Cardiff Cashmere is a soft, brushed yarn made from cashmere and silk. It is a little fuller than normal brushed yarns - which is just perfect in this case. I need hardly to add that it is particularly luxurious.

As always with our Christmas shawls, this time there is a special technique at the forefront. To be honest, there is no clever plan behind it, but it has actually happened by chance every year that we have focused on a particular knitting technique.

While Margareta's Mama had slip stitches up her sleeve, for example, Lucia was all about crossed stitches and Ruby was all about stitching deeper. Elli 's eye-catcher is clearly the beautiful lace pattern, which is framed by a ribbed pattern in cozy merino. This also makes knitting more challenging, as you work with several balls of yarn within a row.

And of course we want to knit together with you again this year! While the first Christmas shawls were intended as a gift to yourselves, your desire for virtual knitting together was so great that we decided to organize the Christmas shawl in the same way as the Mother's Day shawl.

So if you buy the knitting kit or the individual pattern now, you will initially only receive the cover sheet, the material specifications and all the information about the knitting method. So you can already browse for colors or, of course, make the gauge. At the start of the Knit-Along on Friday, November 15th, you will receive the update of the pattern via your customer account or via Ravelry. Please be patient at this point. Experience has shown that many customers receive an update on this day, so it may take a while. However, everyone should be able to download their complete pattern in the course of the morning.

From then on, it's time to knit! Sweeten up the gloomy November or take some time out during the naturally rather hectic Advent season and knit the Elli stole. If you are on Instagram and Facebook, you are welcome to show your knitting progress. So that we can see your pictures and also show them here, please mark "@maschenfein" in the picture so that I can find you. I look forward to many, many photos!

As you can see, this week we were all about "Christmas shawl". And yet more great new items have been added to the store - as always, we want you to have the full choice!

This slipover from Knitting for Olive is ideal for anyone who still wants to knit Christmas items for children (my optimistic and, as always, knitting-list-confident me wants to do the same). The model complements the snow design series and has no sleeves.

Merino and Soft Silk Mohair are knitted from the bottom up. Snow and trees are knitted on the body using the fair isle method. The brims are worked in a rib pattern.

Of course, I would also like to knit a Christmas sweater for myself. Of course, it's already November, but ... what would the world be without a bold drive?

In the course of the whole Christmas sweater release flurry, I was particularly taken with this model here: Northern Augustins No 6 by Anne-Sophie Velling exudes just the right mix for me. Not too much Christmas vibes, but still clearly Christmassy. I would use the same color combination for this top-down knit. And the yarns from Krea Deluxe - in this case Organic Wool and Deluxe Silk Mohair - inspire me anyway.

The new mug from Minuk also arrived at the warehouse this week. It immediately made me twitch - I simply have a thing for special coffee mugs. And when there's a lot of chaos, some stitching just feels good - we all know that!

The mug has a capacity of approx. 250 ml and the print is a dishwasher-safe screen print. So if you want to make yourself or a knitter friend happy, this mug is a very good choice!