Oolong knits

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 I have to turn the work all the time. 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 buying new. A warning: I absolutely cannot recommend this yar...

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...

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...

I just love the strinking geometric design of Oxford by Sanastrik. And it is a free pattern.

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.