New sweaters on the needles

I participated in NaKniSweMoDo09 (National Knit a Sweater a Month Dodecathon 2009) this year. Although, I'm only likely to finish 11 within 2009, I'm absolutely ready for a similar challenge next year, IntKniSweMoDo10.

WIPs and UFOs also count in the challenge, and I will have a few of those come January 1st. Granite and Kingscot have been lingering for a while now, but they are both incredibly nice sweaters, so I'm sure they will be done eventually.

Of more recent projects (cast-on and swatched, respectively, within the last week) I have Helga Isager's Sweater i tofarvet patent from the book Strikketøj (see really poor photo above for an idea) and then I discovered a cardigan in an old Knitty called Arietta. It looks like stranded knitting, but it really is a mosaic pattern with only one colour per row - very nice! I swatched with three different beautiful colours of Holst Garn, one from Noda, and one from BC garn. It looks really nice - and washing did wonders to the swatch! The thinner yarn gives more stitches per 10 cm, but I think I can make it work with size M. I'm looking forward to some more knitting in the new year, when all secret gift knitting is done...!