My current new project is Baktus. This project was not in my queue, but I know that this is a pattern I've been meaning to make for years. I decided on the classic pattern, but I was tempted by the lacy variation. Funnily enough, I was flipping through my old pattern binder, and I saw that I had printed out the lacy Baktus pattern years ago! Maybe I'll still make that one too : )
The main impetus for knitting Baktus was to finally work with my Schoppel-Wolle Zauberball® Crazy! I acquired this yarn from The Sated Sheep in Dripping Springs years ago at the start of a Fredericksburg Oktoberfest weekend. I figured I would make socks, but then I remembered my sock epiphany: Never knit socks with nice, expensive yarn because you will get holes in the soles and you won't darn them and your broken socks will sit in a closet sad and unworn.
So anyway, I searched around Ravelry for beautiful projects made with Zauberball Crazy, and I found many beautiful Bakti. This is a great pattern: it's easily memorizable, so it makes for carefree, TV-watching knitting. I'm also able to utilize the remainder of my Zealana Luxuria AIR Laceweight: I love this yarn (subject for another entry). It's lightweight but strong and knits up beautifully. I like alternating the two yarns to break up the color changes that occur in the Zauberball.
I'm not loving the left side edge: it's not smooth. That's probably my fault for pairing a laceweight yarn with a fingering yarn. It will be fine in the end: I will be the only one that notices a detail like that. I'm excited about this very light blue portion of the yarn that was not visible before now.
I'm still going to alternate this new project with finishing old projects. I think I'm *this* close to darning an injured sock.
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