Keyword: Knitting

Here we go with a new round "On the needles", because March is here! In the past month there was a lot to browse, I'm always happy about every single link and hop excited to you over, one or the other project or the corresponding tutorial has already landed on my walls. Also on Instagram there was much to see under the hashtag #aufdennadelnfebruar!

Knitting sweaters for children

I've been knitting kind of crazy in the past month. After the diamond scarf, I wanted to get rid of one of my UFOs and decided to use the freestyle raglan-from-the-top that I had cast on for the prince last winter. Without further ado, I ribbed everything up and by now the gathering stripes is now finished except for the sleeve ends. A second one will be knitted directly afterwards, because this model is wonderfully simple, plain, but beautiful and the absolutely perfect in-between project when you don't want to think much. The wool is called Zara by Filatura the Crosa, I bought it last winter at mylys in Hamburg and now reordered. Is suitable with the superwash finish very well for a princess sweater and knits quite wonderfully.

And what do you have on the needles in March? What has become of your projects? Will you tell me? I'm looking forward to it! You can link up all month long! Attention: You have to put a backlink to this post or blog in your post, otherwise it won't work with the link tool. A backlink is nothing more than a link to this blog :)!

On Instagram I use the hashtag #aufdennadelnmärz. Join in there too!

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Recently I came across the hashtag #knittertools on Instagram, I love it always to look at what others have so for tools and stuff for knitting. Since has accumulated with me now of course so much. I'll show you a few things, without de I now no longer like to knit.

Accessories knitting

Prominent in the middle and always there, my needle and gaugefrom Lana Grossa. Of course, I use this very often, because the marking of the needle sizes on my wooden needles disappears after two rows at the latest, so I have to constantly check the strengths of my many needle tips. This needle gauge is at the same time a ruler and gauge for counting out the stitches in my swatches. Very practical and therefore constantly in use.

I use the stitch holders(this safety pin in the upper left corner) from time to time, but mostly I put stitches on a piece of yarn of a different color. But for shorter stitches these holders are very useful. The purple discs are the end pieces to my needlepoint setand they are extremely important when knits are paused and I need the appropriate needle size for other projects (for this reason I also bought a few extra ropes to be able to leave a project sometimes).Under the needle gauge are three rope connectors, so that several ropes can be connected together, for example, to try on larger projects once and to be able to distribute the stitches evenly over several ropes.

Wool needlesare, of course, indispensable for sewing the threads. No question about it. The crochet hook is needed to fix mistakes in the middle of a row, so I like to drop a stitch a few rows down to fix mistakes.

Ialready reported about my enthusiasm for my new pompom makerthe other day in the context of my new lift-it hat. Really great, the things! Below the tape measure, also pretty much always with me. My stitch markersaren't the prettiest, but they serve their purpose. I often just use different colored yarn scraps for that too, but having a few markers in the bag doesn't hurt.

At the bottom a few T-needles from KnitPro, I have a pack of 50, they don't rust (that's important!) and are great for blocking (stretching) the knits. By the way, I do that on these play mats, it doesn't have to be the expensive mats from KnitPro, you should just check beforehand if the mats rub off, mine don't.

And now tell me which tools you can't do without anymore. What are your favorite accessories? Maybe you also have some tips for nicer variants of knitting tools?

Have you seen that in November already thirty people have diligently linked their projects at Auf-den-Nadeln to browse? What I was pleased. Since I'm curious how it looks in December with you on the needles so! I show you my projects, I had in November unfortunately relatively little time to knit:

Single thread knitted scarf Superior yarn

My never-ending-will scarf is finished. Single-thread knit from gauzy cashmere-silk-merino blend from Filatura di Crosa (the yarn is called superior). Now the threads need to be sewn up. Favorite activity, #malsogarnicht. Before I can show it to you in all its glory, though, I'm thinking about blocking the scarf. Because of the pattern, it curls a lot. I am still unsure and so he must still lie a little, wait and let my thoughts mature.

Triangle scarf knitting Walker

The Tosh cloth takes shape, in the beginning I was still busy writing, but now it develops rather spontaneously. But I explain the pattern to you sometime. Have patience!

Lana Grossa Silkhair

I like the never-ending scarf so much that I will repeat the pattern in a slightly modified form and with different yarn and write a tutorial! Maybe that works out in December in time for the holidays. I show you the days more of it, the new scarf is namely also already on the needles.

How does it look with you? What happened to your projects and what do you have new or old things on the needles in December? You can link up all month long! Attention: You have to put a backlink to this post or blog in your post, otherwise it won't work with the link tool. A backlink is nothing more than a link to this blog :)!

From Instagram I use the hashtag #aufdennadelndezember. Join in there too!

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Today I show you a triangle scarf that I knitted a year ago. However, it never made it onto the blog until now. Back then I tried the Garter Tab Cast-On for the first time. If you don't know it yet: you don't start the triangle in the middle of the long side with a normal cast-on (it would bulge), but with a special little "twist", which you can find well explained by Stephen West.

Semilla Superior Yarn Two Thread

This scarf I have knitted quasi "free will". Stockinette stitch with alternating patterns. It was my first triangle shawl with a cast on in the middle of the long side. I was inspired by the Textures Shawl by Orlane. I don't know why I didn't knit it directly, maybe I was too "lazy" to follow a tutorial, hehe.

Triangle Scarf Garter Tab Cast-On

It turned out very nice, I gave it to one of my dearest friends. In retrospect, he could have used a tad more length.

I knitted it in two strands, inspired by Naima from mylys with her version of Mara. She also knitted it with BC yarn Semilla and Superior from Filatura di Crosa and it looked so wonderfully cozy.

By the way, I liked the combination of these two yarns so much that I also used them for my XXL scarf .

I am now so much in love with the Superior yarn that I am currently knitting the never-ending scarf from it, which is here on the needles in November. It is incredibly soft and cozy. However, also insanely delicate. Maybe I should just knit the Superior yarn two-threaded.... ohja! Lands immediately on the list!

And I join the RUMS again today.

The beanie days are getting closer. Last fall I hosted the beanie weather knit along. That was a lot of fun and out came a purple beanie hat with cable knit!

Knit beanie with cable stitch

I wrote down the pattern at the time, you can find them in the eBooks. However, the pattern is something for advanced, you should already be good and happy to handle the cable needle. Ours is now so worn out that a new cap must come. Let's see what color is desired here this year!

Knitting beanie with pom pom

It must definitely be a hat with pom-pom again! Do you have favorite hat designs that you want to knit this fall? I am happy about links that I can then collect on my beanie weather pinboard!

My goodness, such a blog launch is not for the faint of heart. When I gave yesterday on all channels the starting signal for maschenfein, I was crazy excited. And then so many visits in the first hour and also my new Facebook page have already discovered some *freu*. Now it goes on here of course. I hardly know where to start, so there is a little late the September "On the needles" post.

"On the Needles" is a monthly series I started over on Engelenchen and some of you have even joined in. I would like to continue this monthly (actually, of course, always at the beginning of the month). I find it super exciting to click through the other blogs and see what is knitted there. Maybe you'll even join in now in September and show what you're knitting this month and then we will certainly gradually a nice round!

I have in any case accumulated as a hopeless parallel knitter some unfinished objects and show you what I would like to continue knitting finished in September. A little pressure never hurts, after all! Maybe in a year we'll make a new series "Things that have been lying around here for a year" or something. Or we'll make a "UFO month" in which we knit all UFOs, i.e. unfinished objects, finished.

But now first to September.

Brioche knit pattern

So first of all there is a blanket in brioche pattern in blue and bright orange from Lana Grossa Cashcot and Nobile. Brioche knits itself wonderfully fast. However, the Cashcot is certainly not knitted again here, the thread is permanently twisted, knitting with it I feel a bit bumpy.

Beanie knit

I'm also busy knitting a new hat from Mia by Debbie Bliss, which I've been working on and calculating over the last few days. I'll tell you the story behind this hat when the time comes. It has something to do with Carolin and Martina. On Instagram I have already shown a little more.

What about you guys? Are you also hopeless or gifted parallel knitters like me? What's on your needles and what will be finished next? If you feel like it, you can link here or just comment.

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Help, I am excited. Already last winter the idea germinated very slowly in my head to start a new blog. A knitting blog. So one besides the old already four year old blog over there, which I don't intend to close, but which should just not be exclusively about knitting. And that's what I wanted. Just a pure knitting blog.

Here it is now! Hello and welcome to Maschenfein! A new blog with a wonderful new logo, developed by my friend Martina the formgeberin. I am attached to the knitting needle and do not want to give it away and here I can get rid of everything that comes to mind and much more. Now I am of course terribly excited if you come to visit me here. So I just start and wait and see.

New knitting blog

There were also over on the old blog already many beautiful things that I will show you here bit by bit again. For example, the cable pattern beanies for my Miss and me, or a super great triangle scarf for the friend P. two-thread knitted from Filatura di Crosa Superior and BC yarn Semilla, which I have to show you here soon times in full glory. There was a very simple hat with pattern for the tubular cast-on for the DaWanda blog, a huge XXL scarf for grandma, a pretty cardigan for's Fräulein and some more that never ended up on the blog.

So, because I realized over time that I would like to report so much and so much about wool & co., but somehow it got such a weight in terms of content that it found no place in my old blog, here is a new place.

Maschenfein is a blog for knitting lovers or those who want to be. For beginners and experienced hobby knitters. By the way, you can also crochet, I do that sometimes. I'm happy about every reader and hope of course very much that you participate and diligently comment and above all also ask and tell what you would like to see and read.

In addition to the blog, there is now finally my small e-book store on this page, where my tutorials are ready for download, I will also sort the free books there and who knows what will be added in the future so everything. My e-books got a completely new layout, of course also by Martina, they look great and are even more fun! I have many ideas on which I already werkle, there will soon be more pattern, I will report.

You see, I have a lot planned, that will be fine! All the way Maschenfein! Are you with me?