Selbu Modern Progress and Orion mitts

My biggest passion these last couple of months has been stranded colour work. And not just any kind of colour work, but going back to my roots and knitting traditional Norwegian mittens (generically known as Selbu mittens, even though most of my patterns are not in fact, from Selbu, just Norwegian) and socks.
What I love [...]

Swatching

Sometimes, I actually do it. Promise.
This time it’s not actually to check gauge, but to see what colour should be the contrast colour, and which should be the main one on the Selbu Modern I’m about to make.

So what I did was to cast on two repeats and on my 3mm DPN’s knit in the [...]