{"id":545,"date":"2013-08-27T20:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2013-08-27T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:12:08","slug":"jills-beautiful-bohus-sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2013\/08\/jills-beautiful-bohus-sweater\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill&#8217;s beautiful Bohus sweater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard from a knitter, Jill Weber, that I met when she took my class on Bohus knitting at the 2011 IK Knitting Lab in San Mateo, California.\u00a0 I am a shameless enabler at these things, and really love it when students have the confidence to order a Bohus kit and make a sweater for themselves.\u00a0 Jill not only obtained a kit for the Red Edge from Solveig Gustafsson, but knit it up and won both the Best of Show, and the Sweepstakes ribbon at the Indiana State Fair.<a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jill-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-547\" alt=\"Jill front\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jill-front-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jill-front-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jill-front-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jill-front-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-548\" alt=\"photo(4)\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo4-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-549\" alt=\"photo(3)\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo31-e1377633317805-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo31-e1377633317805-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo31-e1377633317805-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solveig&#8217;s kits always contain a generous amount of yarn, and Jill did something really interesting with hers.\u00a0 The original sweater has a plain color back, but Jill put a design on the back, as well as the front.\u00a0 I think she did a beautiful job, and Bohus knitters everywhere will appreciate her stunning work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so happy that the Fair judges did, too!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a few things, but about to travel a bit over the Labor Day weekend, so have been wondering what my travel project should be.\u00a0 My first choice was Brooke Nico&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lush-and-lacy-trapeze\">Lush and Lazy Trapeze<\/a>, from the current Knitter&#8217;s magazine. (I saw the sample at Stitches Midwest, and it is gorgeous).\u00a0 But the yarn I want to use, Dye For Me&#8217;s Suri alpaca Merino Glow (purchased at Stitches), swatched up too thin for the pattern.\u00a0 Then I looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/26-boatneck-top\">#26 Boatneck<\/a> top, from VK Early Fall 2011.\u00a0 I really love this, and will knit it someday, but it calls for 2 colors, and more yarn than I have.\u00a0 Then I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/roseleaves-tunic\">Roseleaves Tunic<\/a>, from &#8220;A gathering of Lace&#8221;.\u00a0 Designed by Meg Swansen, it is a lovely sweater that will be fun to knit and wear.\u00a0 My swatch came out beautifully, and I am set to go.\u00a0 That one ball of yarn is going to be a sweater!\u00a0 Is that perfect for traveling, or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard from a knitter, Jill Weber, that I met when she took my class on Bohus knitting at the 2011 IK Knitting Lab in San Mateo, California.\u00a0 I am a shameless enabler at these things, and really love it when students have the confidence to order a Bohus kit and make a sweater [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}