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A wonderful good and Easter morning to the Saturday coffee & net whisper.

I'm a little excited because the photos of the first scarves for my book are already in the box and have become really great! I can tell you that the designs will be very versatile and different. The many stitch tests and countless pattern tests have already paid off. I can't wait to show you my first impressions, but you'll have to be patient a little longer. I have only finished about half of the designs. Thanks to great test and model knitters they are already knitted, but there is still a lot of work ahead of me. The catalog of the publisher will be published in May, then you may catch a first glimpse!

In the Loveknitting Blog I have put together the most important dates in terms of wool and Co. for this year. On Facebook there were some great tips, I added them in the comments! Feel free to do so if you know of an important event that should not be missed.

At Craftsy is by the way once again sale! That's just the thing for the cozy days over Easter. I save myself courses that could interest me in principle, always in the favorites and then strike at the sale. Maybe there is something for you again.

In my circle of friends and acquaintances is just once again baby boom and I plan two more baby blankets. Or even three, because once there's a double pack babies. So I'm on the lookout again for beautiful baby blanket yarns. Would like to try something new. Do you have any ideas?

At Auf den Nadeln is this month again neatly what's going on! 95 projects are already there. Kathi is with freshly hatched offspring of course just in baby knitting fever. At Lockenfuchs I discovered the Forager's Scarf, the combination of garter stitch and lace pattern I find very nice. There are many great projects, browsing is worth it.

Are you also sometimes annoyed by a rolled edge in the stockinette stitch knitting? Carina discovered a great video yesterday, in which Rita Maassen shows a trick how to prevent the curling! From minute 4:12 it gets exciting!

Have a great Easter Sunday tomorrow!

A wonderful good morning to your Saturday coffee! Actually, I wanted to show you some impressions from the first day of the h&h today. Unfortunately, I had to cancel my trip to Cologne due to flu-stricken children. Instead, we cuddle up, play memory up and down, puzzles and now and then a few more rows on my new domino cloth in patchwork style, the beginnings of which I had already shown on Instagram.

I knitted again a few square bunnies. So simple and always different! This year I used the Woohoo 8 wool from Nina, which I also use for our Easymützen and of which so many scraps are lying around here.

Square bunnies are the perfect use of scraps. Over at the Loveknitting Blog I also show you how to knit them (if you don't know them yet). So quickly get on the needles and knit bunnies!

Last Thursday was again knitting meeting in the DaWanda Snuggery! There were also some other bloggers there! Carina of course, Andrea, Katha, and Maria. Kerstin told me that she found my blog through the Maschenfein app that used to exist. I thought that was crazy amazing! The associated plugin I deleted a long time ago, because I thought that no one uses it anyway and the effort was then somehow too great to maintain. I'll think about activating it again.

Have you seen that you can now subscribe to new blog posts here as an email? If you click on "Subscribe Now" here (you should see it at the bottom of the page), you can sign up for my newsletter as well as for the regular blog post subscription. The newsletter comes in irregular intervals. You will be informed about new blog posts every saturday. So you can sign up for both lists, they contain different content.

Also, Maria and Kerstin asked for my hashtag mug. YES! There is of course still and over in my Maschenfein spreadshirt store. There you can also find the flip flops in more colors now, it's spring after all! I treat the Spreadshirt store a little stepmotherly, because the store design there can not be adapted nicely. But at some point I'll have to come up with something and somehow better integrate the mugs and accessories here, so you can always find them. It's on the to-do list. Somewhere behind book, pattern, courses, text orders and so on. And when the kids are healthy again for more than three days at a time, nech?

In May, I'm shooting another video with Makerist, this time on patchwork knitting. You can already get the course at the early bird discount! I will show you the classic knitting of different geometric shapes and how to sew them together. Then we'll go one step further, skip the sewing together and start by knitting patches together in the classic Horst Schulz way. Thereby we pick up stitches like in my patchwork shawl. And finally, I'll show you how you can knit modular elements together - with short rows. This is also used in my new Domino shawl, which contains both patchwork with stitch pick-up and modular knitting with short rows.

Andrea knitted her patchwork style swirl blanket at the knitting meetup. It looks crazy! She had shown them beautiful often on the needles, but in nature you see times so right how it works!

Oh yes! You can also still get my first course, "The 1×1 of Stitch Samples", which I shot last week, at the early bird discount. It's already in the can, but still needs to be edited. I'm excited to see the results. It's an intensive class on the meaning of stitch samples. We'll knit one, of course, and I'll show you how I wash and stretch them (I get asked about that a lot, too). But we go much further and I tell you what the stitch samples and the underlying material tell you, how you find out if a yarn is suitable for your knitting project and finally I give you a little insight how I organize my stitch samples and how projects have already been created from individual samples.

A wonderful good morning to Saturday coffee with my news of the last week and some nice links from the net.

I had my first shoot with Makerist, which was so insanely exciting! But also insanely more exhausting than I thought it would be. Two full days of shooting. I'm flabbergasted, I've seen many, many courses. But when you stand in front of the camera yourself, you realize how difficult it actually is to put things into simple and meaningful (!) sentences. When you want to tell a million things and while the camera is running you forget half of them and instead you think of a million other exciting things that you then simply tell. It bubbles out of you and suddenly you remember the camera and you get nervous. You think while you're talking Did that make sense now, and at the same time you keep talking and ask yourself Oops, what did I just say? and Huh! Is that how you say it? Working in the team was a lot of fun, it's funny how two days of intensive collaboration can suddenly give you a kind of class trip feeling. Now I can hardly wait for the "cut" result. Of course I'll let you know as soon as more information about my course is online! But until then I can already tell you that it's about many, many stitch samples.

By the way, I ordered the Rolags up there in the picture individually from Kathrin, just like my first hand spindle. You can do that too, if you have a special color wish, just specify it in the order! I even have my first spun ball here already. So... let's put it this way: I'm still practicing.

I have discovered another knitting trip. Wolle und Ideen is organizing a "Wollness Weekend" with many workshops from June 17 to 19 in Kleinwalsertal.

At Wollen Berlin you can now buy the Field Bag from Fringe Association! Strictly speaking, I do not need the yes. After all, I have enough beautiful bags and fabric baskets in which I carry my projects with me. But somehow the inner lemmings tickle me a lot. Do you know this, it is me just so often in all imaginable variations on Instagram run over the way and in fact I have already admired it in the flesh at Sophia.... It's really beautiful!

Carina has been raving about Naima, the cardigan from Ankestrick, for a while now. Maybe I should organize a small Knit Along with her, so that we finally knit us a cardigan! For me, it might be Whippet in long now! Yes! I think I like this one!

By the way, next Thursday we will knit again at the Snuggery in Berlin! From 18.30 until about 21 clock. I look forward to it!

A wonderful good morning to Saturday coffee and webtalk. Thank you for your numerous comments here and by email on my thoughts about Saturday Coffee. That helped me a lot! So the Netzgeflüster will stay exactly as it is. I realize you don't need anything else and I have a few ideas for the coming weeks, which I will let mature a bit at the moment.

While browsing the web, I came across a YouTube channel that I didn't even know existed. Wollefein Ekaterina Arndt shows the most important methods around knitting in a very relaxed way.

At Woolspire, there is currently a fabulous 30% (!) off all in-stock yarns from Lana Grossa and BC Yarn! Perfect to stock up for the Easter vacations.

On September 3-4 the Woolfest will take place in Hamburg and Nancy Marchant will give two workshops on brioche knitting! So you should mark the date already now.

We are going to Yarn Camp in Frankfurt this year on October 1 and 2, did I mention that before?

By the way, I will visit the h&h in Cologne on March 18/19. It is a pure trade fair, but maybe someone of you is there anyway? If so, please let me know! I will definitely meet Rebecca and Sandra. Of course, we would be happy if one or the other blogger (or the one or the other blogger of course) would join us.

Rililie has released a new knitting tutorial for a cardigan. Again crazy great, with lots of different techniques. I like it very much, it goes on the "maybe-in-the-summer-holidays" knitting list!

Have a great weekend!

A wonderful good morning to Saturday coffee.

I've been in fiber and spinning fever the last few days after the great workshop with Kathrin from Back to the Wheel, which I really need to tell you more about next week. I'm trying to keep myself busy with it only theoretically at the moment, because I really don't have time for another hobby. But I couldn't resist and ordered some fibers from Kathrin. I'll be sure to show them to you on Instagram as soon as they get here. I get namely my desired color combination prepared by Kathrin, after I fell in love with these Rolags.

Of course I also immediately devoured the course for spinning on Makerist by Chanti-Manou. Simply great is the!

I'm thinking about changing my format of Saturday Coffee a bit, but somehow have no idea in which direction. My Samstagskaffee & Netzgeflüster was created a long time ago by the beautiful blog of Ninja, who already long long long before regularly drank the Samstagskaffee and built a small link collection, where you could link your Käffchen at will. Ninja then went offline at some point, though. At her regular Saturday coffee, Sonja von Wert-Voll had always shown her favorite links of the week, mixed through all possible areas. I found the Saturday round so cozy and the mandatory regular blogging somehow practical to stay "on the ball". So it came to my Saturday coffee, in which I post my favorite links from the knitting world - my net whisper.

Somehow, though, I now feel like I need a slightly different framework. Maybe a thematic classification or so. Maybe I just pick up weekly your many questions about knitting, which reach me almost daily by mail. Yes! That would be an idea! Or what do you think? What do you wish for?

I still have one date for you to note or register:

In June the Wooly Weekend will take place near Kassel. There are only four places left! Who likes, should hurry up.

By the way, the first reports about self-made charts in KnitCharts have already reached me. I am very happy for Peter, who developed this great app, about the huge positive feedback! I had recently presented KnitCharts in detail here.

Have a wonderful weekend!

A wonderful good morning to Saturday coffee as always with a few links from the net on the subject of knitting & Co.

Just the day before yesterday I told you about the Makerist and Craftsy video courses that I like to watch while knitting and about the fact that Craftsy is always on permanent sale. What a perfect opportunity to watch all the Makerist courses in one go! For 9.90 euros you can now sniff through all the courses for a whole month. Pretty great, I think. Get it quick!

We have knitted on Thursday cozy in the Snuggery, I think it's great to suddenly see faces and real knitting projects behind Instagram and Facebook pictures! The next date you can already mark: March 17, again from 18.30 in the Snuggery. I have created an event for this on Facebook. Please be sure to spread the word.

On my needles right now is the absolutely heavenly Woolfolk yarn Får. It is pure merino, but feels like cashmere. I had already read about it and with Tynd it was already similar to me, but this is really crazy beautiful!

It will soon be spring, but I have in recent days times thoughtfully dealt with the subject of gloves. Here I have found an informative overview. According to Amazon, there is probably no really good book on the subject. Or do you know one? There is the Genial Sockenworkshop from Topp Verlag, but the counterpart on the subject of gloves is rather critically evaluated. Or can someone recommend it to me?

I showed a two-color brioche knit on Instagram the other day and got a few inquiries about the yarn. This is Alder from Dale Yarn, it's even on sale at Woolspire right now.

Have a great weekend!

A wonderful good morning to today's Saturday coffee and net whisper. I have sewn last night felt drölfzigtausend threads and earned my Käffchen today truly.

Carina's version of the patchwork shawl after my knitting pattern, which you like so much this month, still graces the start page of Ravelry. Because there the patchwork week has broken out, so what could fit better? Wonderful! Unfortunately, I do not get to translate at the moment, although even before the start page requests came. But you just can' t knit on all weddings at the same time, right?

Not dancing, but knitting, we do next Thursday again in the Snuggery. Do not forget, this time it is called "Open knitting with Maschenfein" and I look forward to you!

I just browsed again at Auf den Nadeln. Bine has knitted an easy triangle scarf from glitter yarn and embellished it with tassels, that looks great! Sandy knits a snow-white blanket, I also find very inspiring. Apart from the colorful glittering, but otherwise white scarf for Miss, I have never knitted anything white! This cape - knitted by Mrs. Wollwesen - I also find totally beautiful. It is very suitable for spring.

I missed Valentine's Day again this time. I know - it is only tomorrow - but knitted hearts you will not find with me. If you want to quickly crochet some tonight, you can quickly look at my old crochet tutorial in the archive. But I can't do it today.

Actually, tomorrow is already Easter anyway. At least in the supermarket. Santas out. Easter bunnies in. At Anette you will find two beautiful copies including super simple pattern. Easter Bunny 1 and Easter Bunny 2.

By the way, the Grüffelo is just once again highly topical for us. At Ravelry you can find the matching knitting pattern for all protagonists.

Have a great weekend!

A wonderful good morning to Saturday coffee with some nice links from the knitting world.

Katha was one of my test knitters for the arm warmers with braid and has shown them on her blog. They look so beautiful!

On February 18th there will be another knitting evening with Maschenfein::Berlin at DaWanda Snuggery here in Berlin. This time it is a knitting meeting, where you simply bring your current projects and we knit together in a cozy round. In addition, beginners are also very welcome to bring your material and suitable needles and then cast on the first stitches. Details will follow, I'm looking forward to it!

Then on February 21 is the workshop "Learn to spin" at Knit Knit. I'm really looking forward to it! There are still a few places available.

For the exciting project, the first Maschenfein book, I am sinking into many, many color cards at the moment and was able to get great sponsors. I love this feeling when the skeins and skeins arrive here and they are still lying on my desk, completely untouched. It's almost like a wool store here right now! Maybe in the coming weeks I'll tell you more about the individual yarns I picked out. The selection of the qualities themselves, is actually not so difficult for me. At least I always know exactly what I don 't like. Only the many colors... yes, they do not make it easy for me.

Which is actually your absolute favorite yarn? Will you tell me one? Or two? Or even three?

Jule from Hey Mama Wolf has long been working on her new project and needle bags. You can now find them in her Etsy store. Of course, these products are also dyed with self-collected plants or GOTS certified plant extracts. You can read about Jules philosophy and her dyeing processes in detail in her interview that was posted here on the blog some time ago.

I've already told you a few times about my current love for the two-color brioche. Susan has just knitted the Askew me Shawl by Stephen West and tells you a little more about it.

I've been asked for a tutorial for the so-called "Garter Tab Cast On" quite a few times. It's about starting a cloth from the top center. Here you can find a well illustrated tutorial.

Super nice I find the Lace pattern on the edge to this cloth! I'm not really a Lace knitter and actually like it on myself not too holey. But in combination with garter stitch stripes knitted I also like many, many holes well!

Have a great weekend!

A wonderful good morning to Saturday coffee!

My week was dominated by my workshop at Snuggery, where I got to knit a headband with the participants. Look, I spent some time winding to get the beautiful little yarn portières ready for everyone. There was love in it! I'll tell you more about it next week, then you'll find the pattern for the headband here on the blog for free. Unbelievably, more than 50 people signed up, so many of them unfortunately ended up on the waiting list. Don't be sad! Maybe we will see each other very soon in the Snuggery again.... we have such an idea...

I've already told you last week about my brioche pattern fever and now here is already an absolutely super great book that I can recommend full of enthusiasm. It contains so incredibly great patterns, two-color brioche is quite high school!

After my crazy major project this year, of which I must probably tell soon times, I would like to knit again so a real relaxation project. My cardigan from the last Auf den Nadeln post is already chained, only the sleeves do not like me yet, but that can be fixed quickly. So now I'd like for soon some no-brain project where I just don't have to think at all. A tutorial where I don't have to do the math myself.

Do you have any ideas? It may still be a cardigan, but please nice and big, short jackets I do not wear. Are there perhaps somewhere pattern for light spring ponchos?

Or something like this cozy oversize sweater I would also love, with a really big stand-up collar. How do I knit the collar without it always collapsing?

At Initiative Handarbeit you can also find beautiful pattern, such as this cape, with turtleneck and beads. I like the yarn already very much! Maybe it will someday, when I have a few needles free again.

Oh! Where I just told about On the needles, have you seen that we have reached the 100 this month? You can browse through one hundred projects, I'm so happy, a thousand thanks for participating and showing!

By the way, Meike has drawn my attention to the Summer Shawl Knit Along, which starts tomorrow. Maybe you still want to join quickly!

Have a great weekend!

A wonderful good morning to today's Saturday coffee and net whisper.

At the moment I miss blogging a little. That sounds strange, after all, there is a lot going on here. But I have so many topics in mind, about which I would like to write, which I would like to write from my knitting heart, so to speak, to which I do not really come before loud background large project work and afternoon occupation of the little dwarfs.

For example, I would really like to write in detail about my preference for stitch samples. At the moment, I'm knitting small and larger squares like crazy. I am a self-confessed gauge junkie and have gotten into the habit of labeling them neatly. Meanwhile I really keep all of them. Well, at least the pretty ones. How do you do it? Do you like knitting samples and if so, how do you archive them?

While browsing the net last week I also found some nice things. On Craftsy you can find five nice variations for rib patterns. It doesn't always have to be right and purl stitches.

There is already the first almost finished patchwork cloth to admire in the blogger world, among other things with a quite dreamlike yarn from Wollfaktor.

Via Pinterest I came across a totally beautiful cape, a free tutorial from Schachenmayr. Right behind it, this beautiful poncho from Sabrina popped up on my wall, also a free tutorial.

Also, I found a great photo tutorial for sewing a totally beautiful knitting project storage bag.

In the context of my large-scale project mania, I am just among many other things also in the brioche pattern fever. I came across a great video tutorial that shows us how to easily fix mistakes in the brioche pattern (it's not that trivial in knitting, maybe this has happened to you before). If you've never really knitted brioche patterns, you might be interested in this video course on Makerist about the brioche pattern, where all variations are explained in detail. You can knit the brioche pattern in two ways, and the course also teaches you about increases and decreases and more. I found it super. Alternatively, you can take a look at the course of the absolute brioche pattern expert Nancy Marchant on Craftsy (I only know this one, but she even made a second one). However, the Craftsy course is firstly in English and secondly Nancy also knits "English", i.e. with the yarn in her right hand. That takes a bit of getting used to when watching.

I still have two date announcements for you:

• Next Thursday (January 28) you can knit with me in the Snuggery here in Berlin a cozy headband. I will bring wool and needles (many, many thanks to Lamana and Addi for the super spontaneous and quick support). The number of participants is limited though, please register via DaWanda Snuggery.
• On February 21, Knit Knit's Wool Heaven is hosting a beginner's workshop on "Learning to Spin" with Kathrin from Back to the Wheel. You remember my interview with her, here on the blog? With her heartfelt enthusiasm for fibers, she really charmed me then and I'm really looking forward to meeting her at Knit Knit.

Hui, that was a long net whisper, is your caffeine already cold? Because you always like to ask: the knitted hashtag mug in the picture is available in my little Spreadshirt store, where you can find, by the way, totally appropriate to the current temperatures also FlipFlops for knitting fans.

Have a great weekend!