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.

Otherwise, we have also packed a wool package to the Humulus Sweater from Isabell Krämer in the last week. And Sandra and Kerstin have published their two new tutorials, the Kuscheltweedding and the sweater/dress Ruth, for which there is once the package from Cumbria Fingering and once the package for the cozy ITO version.

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!