Strickmich! Sommer Camp Week 1: Summer-Knitting in the City
Strickmich! Sommer Camp starts today! For our German knitters, I am recording a podcast about my favorite audiobooks to listen to while knitting. I am starting with Till Raether’s book „Treue Seelen“ („Faithful Souls“) that is set in… Read More
Strickmich! Bowl
New in Strickmich! Shop: An accessory bag that opens up to a bowl in which it is easy to find your knitting tools. Strickmich! Bowl is quite voluminous, everything fits from your dpns to long pencils. The bowl… Read More
Join Strickmich! Sommer Camp now!
A virtual knitting summer camp: Every knitter chooses a project to work on during 6 weeks from July 23rd to September 3rd. You choose which yarn and which pattern – it does not have to be by Martina…. Read More
Panoramic Cowl
A warm little cowl, worked in garter stitch out of a spectacularly hand dyed yarn – that’s a perfect project for your summer vacation! “Panoramic Cowl” was the fourth pattern of Strickmich! Club 2020, and now it’s being released… Read More
Wrap & Warm
It’s a cardigan! Wrap & Warm is knit seamlessly in the round, so there are no long rows of purl stitches. Also: very few stitches to cast on, no special cast-on techniques, no short rows, no seaming. A… Read More
Coming up: Strickmich! Sommer Camp 2021
Last year we had a ton of fun with Strickmich! Sommer Camp: A virtual knitting camp to bring us all together! Every participant picked their own project to work on during the six weeks between mid-July and the… Read More
Virtual Cast-on Event 2-2021
Here’s the link to the cast-on video (link to Youtube) for the second project of Strickmich! Club 2021. Enjoy!
Lintilla
Garter stitch is fun – and even more so with ruffles! For my book “The Hitchhiker Collection” we have knit a new sample of this shawl, using a yarn with fun and pretty color changes. As with the… Read More
Hortensien
Hydrangeas (German: Hortensien) just look amazing when fall comes: The colors spectacularly change from white, pink and baby blue to purple and gray. A perfect inspiration for this shawl and its colorway! Two asymmetrical triangles are connected by… Read More
Poppy Project
It’s both a versatile cowl and a shrug: Poppy Project! If you love relaxed knitting with an interesting construction, this project is for you. The sample for Strickmich! Club 2020 was knit out of 150 g of “Big… Read More
Jasminde
A beautiful big lace shawl in an amazingly soft and warm yarn in amazing colors: “Jasminde” is a great project for everyone who wants to start their first lace project, as there are only two different rows of… Read More
Easter Special in Strickmich! Shop
All Strickmich! Shop orders above 40 Euros (excluding shipping) will earn a free pink organic cotton project bag (retails for € 11,90) from March 26th through April 5th! Just place your order as usual, we will add the… Read More
Magrathea
Can’t wait for spring? Here’s the shawl for you: Magrathea was the fourth pattern I created using the Hitchhiker shape, this time with an intricate lace border that grows during the knitting on one side and extends across… Read More
Strickmich! Club 2021 Cast-on Event No. 1
Our first virtual cast-on event for the first project from Strickmich! Club 2021 starts on Saturday, 27th February at 1 pm CET (Berlin time) here on my Youtube Channel (external link to Youtube). Happy casting on!
Circle & Square
Squaring the circle with an extra warm hat, perfect for these super cold days: The fabric is doubled at the forehead and the ears. “Circle & Square” is worked in one piece without any purl stitches or seams… Read More
Neu: Online-Kurse!
Um neue Stricktechniken zu lernen, sind Online-Kurse ideal: Ich kann alles genau in Nahaufnahme zeigen und erklären. Du kannst jedes Detail auf deinem Bildschirm mitverfolgen – das geht im Klassenraum meistens nicht! Kommende Woche starte ich mit den… Read More
Leftie
Leftie – a shawl originally designed to make use of those pretty little leftovers we all keep hoarding, is a also a perfect project for those cute mini-skeins or mini-balls we keep seeing everywhere. “Zauberperlen” (“magic pearls”) by Schoppel… Read More
Treehiker
A fun shawl with an intricate ribbed stitch pattern, knit up in the Hitchhiker shape: “Treehiker” is a shawl for knitters who love a (sort of) challenge, like to work from charts or long line of instructions and… Read More
Strickmich! Club 4-2020
Es war ein aufregendes Strickmich! Club-Jahr, und ich freue mich sehr, dass es jetzt mit dem wunderschönen Garn von Susanne Walther alias Tieke Garne seinen krönenden Abschluss findet! Das Video ist ab dem 21. November um 13 Uhr… Read More
Bunny & Claire
If you have always loved the idea of learning how to do intarsia, this project is for you! Bunny & Claire is a simple triangle with an intriguing geometric pattern that requires no counting of stitches, no chart… Read More