Over on the hello yarn blog I have found the inspiration to make my first sweater from the Norsk Strikkedesign book.
She had a link to some of the sweaters made from the book and I found this
I do think that the colors are a bit more what I want. I love the modern black and cream but the brown & cream really scream out to me. My goal is to have the ribbings all a bit more fitted than in the picture above. I ordered Knitpicks merino style in these colors
Main color
Second main color
All of the highlight colors
I do think it will come out the way I have envisioned.
First I need to finish Brocade,
then I can cast on for the norsk sweater! My progress on brocade is nill since I first cast on & knit about 5 inches on the back. Today is the day it comes out of hiding & gets some new life put into it!