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April 2026

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For April, I wanted a small project, that would let me keep focus on my March project: the beautiful Purpurea Sweater by Teti Lutsak and, after finishing the sweater, still leave me some time to continue my February project (a self-drafted blanket). I decided to do a mosaic dishcloth, fun and quick!, I thought. But, that felt extremely underwhelming when I finished it in less than one day; maybe too much fun, I really couldn't put it down, and too quick for sure. It felt good to go back to work on the sweater already on the 1st of April, but, let's say I was feeling like I had fallen for an April's fool prank. To add insult to injury, I ran out of yarn for the sweater! So, that gorgeous sweater is currently in hibernation. Now, I was really thinking that April had taken away my mojo. I tried to look at the bright side: plenty of time to work on the blanket, maybe even enough to finish it, but... I couldn't keep my motivation. So, I decided on converting my April p...
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March 2026

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My project for March 2026 is a gorgeous all-over cable sweater by Teti Lutsak, one of my favourite designers (at the very top of the list!). This is the Purpurea Sweater. I casted on for this project on March 1st, as planned, and I'm going to try to not neglect my February blanket, which is far from finished. I managed to do about one fourth of the bind-off last month, but this is not a simple bind-off, it's a lace border. Not too complicated, but it's still a lot of work and slow going because, even though the rows are very short, I have to turn the work twice for every stitch I bind off! I'm enjoying both these projects immensely, so: no complains at all. Addendum: remember that in January I couldn't find a sweater quantity of yarn in my stash? Well, I still can't. I frogged a sweater my husband no longer used (because I knitted him a handful of better ones in the meantime) and I'm reusing that yarn instead of buyi...
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February 2026

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Note: I'm using a photo of Jared Flood's Quill as a placeholder until I finish this month's project and take a decent photo of it. My project is not identical to this one, but similar enough, I guess. I'm continuing my challenge for 2026 this month, but I chose to do something slightly different in February. It all started the month before, when I was planning to start a new sweater, even though I hadn't finished my January project yet (far from it). In principle, I have enough yarn in my stash to knit for over 2 years (based on my yarn consumption of last year), but, in practice, I realized I didn't have a single sweater amount, even if I joined different yarns in order to do some colourwork (at least, not if I wanted to like the final piece). After close inspection, I discovered that a large portion of my stash consisted of Drops Alpaca yarn. However, most of this yarn was effectively in use in 2 projects, my January s...
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January 2026

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Note: I'm using a photo of PetiteKnit's Cumulus blouse as a placeholder, until I take a decent photo of my January project. My self-drafted pattern is quite different from this sweater, but I couldn't be bothered to find a better picture. I finished almost all the projects I'd started in 2025 before the end of the year and ended up unexpectedly casting on a new project on the 1st day of 2026. Throughout January, as I knitted this project, I found that I rather enjoyed knowing exactly (and without having to do any calculations) when I had started the project and for how long I'd been knitting it. This is how it occurred to me that I could challenge myself to start a new project on the 1st day of every month in 2026. My January project is a simple v-neck worked using a self-drafted contiguous recipe. The neck and cuffs are made of a double-knitted band and the hem in half-twisted rib. This is a very simple recipe, completely seamle...
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Candy: Oxford by Sanastrik

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I just love the strinking geometric design of Oxford by Sanastrik. And it is a free pattern.
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Candy: tee | 23 by Deborah Doherty

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Deborah Doherty generously provides most of her patterns for free. tee | 23 is my favourite design of her, but she has other designs that are absolutely beautiful.
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Candy: Louise pullover by Sari Nordlund

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Sari Nordlund is one of the most popular designers at the moment and her popularity is undoubtedly deserved. Louise pullover is not one of her most outstanding patterns, but it is still gorgeous and, moreover, it is free *wink, wink* and thus a great opportunity to get to know Sari's pattern writing style without having to pay for it.
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