It's amazing that I have actually finished two whole projects since beginning anything new!
But, this week I succumbed to the temptation of starting a new project. I really need a change from the constant diet of chocolate brown yarn in the simple lace shawl. Sumptuous as it is, a little variety now and then is a good thing. You know, like making sure you include all the food groups. Chocolate, even dark chocolate, can be too much of a good thing.
This week I started Bettna. I needed to tweak my yarn taste buds with something tangy and savory. Bettna is a Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton design. The pattern is featured on the cover of Noro Revisited. It's classic CTH and I've wanted to knit one for a couple of years. So why not NOW! So what if I have all those other projects that could use a little attention. No willpower whatsoever...
You may have already knit the popular Klaralund from CTH's Noro Book #2, which is an earlier version of a similar design concept. Klaralund is the pullover version knit in four rectangular pieces also in combinations of garter and stockinette stitches.
This is the finished lower back piece of Bettna, and the beginning of one of the lower fronts.
Here's a close-up of the Silk Garden colorway #234.
And here's what the finished Bettna will look like from the back.
So, wishing you the pause in your knitting (with a new project, of course) that refreshes! And hey it's ok - its all fiber and no calories!
I do love that sweater. I ripped out my Klaralund because I knitted 65% of it in Cascade220. I know! I know! Frogged, of course. I can't wait to see the progress!
Posted by: Gina | March 12, 2007 at 07:36 PM
If you don't do a new blog entry, I am going to kill myself.
Posted by: gina B. | April 07, 2007 at 07:50 PM
Ok, thats it! Goodbye cruel world....
Posted by: Gina | April 10, 2007 at 08:48 AM
I don't like sweater,but that one looks special!
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