Mossy & Green
“Mossy & Green” wird schräg gestrickt und hat ein sehr attraktives Struktur- und Lochmuster. Extraluxuriös wird es aus einem superweichen Seidenmischgarn (hier: “Scrumptious” von Fyberspates”). Die Anleitung gibt’s auf Ravelry.
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“Mossy & Green” is knit on the bias with a subtle geometric lace and structural pattern. Use a very soft silk blend yarn (here: “Scrumptious” by Fyberspates”). Find the pattern as a single download on Ravelry!
Trickangle
A triangle, but an unusual one: “Trickangle” has several middle axes that have gone astray, which makes the shawl’s structure look interesting if you are using a multicolored or color-changing yarn.
You can also use a set of mini-skeins – the effect will be fun!
With “Trickangle”, you can use up all the yarn you have and make the shawl as large as you like. For this sample, I have used one skein
of “Pure Sock” by German dyer Uschitita in her amazing colorway “TGIF”. Feel free to use several skeins or different colors – there are no limits to your creativity! “Trickangle“ can be a small summery shawlette (like my sample) or a huge shawl to keep you warm when it gets colder (you will need more yarn for that, obviously!). The pattern contains instructions on how to adjust the design to your needs. Ah, and did I mention that the shawl is worked all in relaxing garter stitch that is suitable for happy vacation knitting? Enjoy, and have a great summer!
This pattern is part of Strickmich! Club 2024 – a digital subscription for four new patterns by Martina Behm. Join us anytime here!
Stairs & Stripes
The first pattern of Strickmich! Club 2024 is here!
Let your creativity shine with “Stairs & Stripes” and make a truly unique shawl! Use five or more different colors, like the ones in a set of “Fino Minis” by Manos del Uruguay. You will knit fun stripes that change color at a spot chosen by yourself. You decide which colors to use – and where the color changes happen. Everything holds up nicely as you are using the intarsia technique – I have shot a video to show you how it works (link to Vimeo). It’s fun and easy! Also, there is a simple technique for weaving in theyarn ends as you go (link to Vimeo).
I made my version of “Stairs & Stripes” with the fun color combo “Josephine”. If you would like your shawl to look a little more toned-down, choose the color combinations
“Clarissa” or “Henrietta” – they are all available in Strickmich!
Shop. Happy knitting!
You would like to join Strickmich! Club 2024? You can still get a membership on Ravelry or in Strickmich! Shop!
Leaf me this way
Meet “Leaf me this way”: a seamless cowl with a decorative lace border. Enjoy mindless knitting during the first part and a little bit of excitement when you reach part II, where the lacy border is worked. The leaf pattern makes this cowl so special!
Find the pattern on Ravelry and in Strickmich! Shop.
Double Hitch
The Hitchhiker family has grown: “Double Hitch” has a double zig-zag border instead of the simple one you know from the original pattern. Tiny squares are knit into the zig-zags, of course completely modularly and seamless, it just happens during the knitting while you follow the instructions.
“Double Hitch” was the fourth pattern of Strickmich! Club 2022 and is now available on Ravelry and in Strickmich! Shop. We also have a limited amount of the original yarn, hand-dyed by La Bien Aimée in Paris, in stock.
Literally
A narrow scarf with a good length, knit out of soft and colorful wool, is the best accessory for reading in the park, for browsing the shelves of your favorite bookstore or library or on your way to the book fair. Almost magically, it makes us look sophisticated and well-read – don’t you think?
This pretty scarf is knit on the bias with a pretty zig-zag pattern that is created by working increases and decreases in a color-changing yarn: Use your own handspun or something (almost!) as pretty like “Edition 3” or Zauberball by Schoppel or “Lazy Lion” by Kremke Soul Wool. Depending on how long you would like your scarf, you will use between 100 and 150 g of yarn. You will need four stitch markers in two different colors and a crochet hook of suitable size, as you will crochet cast-on new stitches every now and then (I show you how that works in a video). So: Happy knitting and reading!
The pattern is available as a download on Ravelry and in Strickmich! Shop, where you will also find the matching yarn.
Happy Crowd – a colorful cowl
A happy crowd of people, in colorful clothes, maybe gathering on a lawn, drinks in their hands, maybe listening to a band playing, chatting along – that’s the picture I had in my mind when I first saw the special colorway by Kremke Soul Wool for Strickmich! Club 2022. We then named the color “Happy Crowd”, and of course my design was named accordingly! “Happy Crowd” is a cowl knit on the bias that is made to showcast a yarn with long color changes like “Lazy Lion”.
The pattern uses only 100 g (one skein) of sockyarn and can be modified to yield a longer but narrower cowl if you prefer. If you have more than one skein, you can freely choose how long and wide you would like your cowl to be. The zig-zags become second nature after a while and are so much fun to knit! Can you tell I am in a ziggy-zaggy phase of my life as a knitwear designer? The pattern is now released on Ravelry and in Strickmich! Shop, where we also carry the yarn (shipping is worldwide!)
Half Norwegian
This black rock is the Nord Kapp!
I am back from a fabulous Knitting Cruise to Norway! The Fjords were amazing, and I really loved the days we spent north of the polar circle, when the sun never set. Unforgettable!
To make sure every participant had a nice knitted souvenir to take back home, I designed “Half Norwegian”: My new shawl featuring a Norwegian Star cut in half – it’s a popular pattern for two-colored-knitting in Norway that started in the little town of Selbu, where it was used to make mittens warmer and prettier. Here, you start from the center with the light color and add the dark parts later on. No stranded knitting involved, almost no casting on or binding off, just increases and decreases. No picking up of stitches either. A very relaxing project – maybe yours for Strickmich! Sommer Camp that starts next week? Pattern is available on Ravelry and in Strickmich! Shop.
Sommer Camp 2023
What could be better than knitting outside in the sunshine? Easy: Knitting with others outside in the sunshine – either virtually or in real life! This year, we invite you again to our Strickmich! Sommer Camp: We will knit together from August 7th to September 3rd, and the motto is “Gettin’ Ziggy with it”. Pick a pattern with zig-zags like Hitch on the Move, Rockin’ Rows, Sophiste, Match & Move or the good old Hitchhiker. And – I can tell you this much – there will be another pattern by me being published until then that will also fulfill the critieria! We will have pretty Sommer Camp Goodies that you can earn with your purchases in Strickmich! Shop, we will chat along in Strickmich! Netz and have a raffle in the end: everyone who has uploaded a pic of their finished camp project to Strickmich! Netz will participate. Sounds good? Definitely!
Hitch on the Move
My new knitting pattern “Hitch on the Move” combines the zig-zags of my most popular design, the “Hitchhiker” with the fun construction of “Match & Move”. In this sample, we have used two beautiful summery yarns that you will both find in Strickmich! Shop. Alternatively, pick a set of mini-skeins and a matching bigger one. The possibilities are endless!
Find “Hitch on the Move” in Strickmich! Shop and on Ravelry.