{"id":10654,"date":"2017-05-03T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillsyarn.wpengine.com\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2017-05-02T20:43:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T00:43:57","slug":"show-and-tell-sweaters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/projects\/show-and-tell-sweaters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Show and tell: sweaters."},"content":{"rendered":"

“What are you thinking about making?”<\/em> If you’ve visited our shop, you’ve likely been asked this question by myself, Anne, Rosi, or whoever else may be helping out that day. We ask this not just to help connect you\u00a0with the right yarn, pattern, or tools, but also because we’re genuinely interested. We love hearing your ideas and helping realize them, and even more, we love seeing them realized in a finished product. When I’m able, I\u00a0photograph these finished projects and share them here on the blog. Here are some of the sweaters our community of knitters have recently completed!<\/p>\n

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Here Tom models his “Basic Men’s Pullover,”<\/a> his first-ever sweater for himself. With guidance from Marsha’s Start Your First Sweater class here at the shop, Tom made this perfectly-fitting sweater using Swans Island All American Worsted<\/a>. This kind of sweater success can only mean more sweaters – I can’t wait to see what Tom knits next!<\/p>\n

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Katherine has been knitting Kate Davies’ “Owlet”<\/a> sweaters for each of her children. She brought the latest in some weeks ago for button selection, and I couldn’t resist snapping a picture, even though it’s not technically finished. This one was knit with Malabrigo Rios<\/a> held doubled for a bulky gauge and the bonus feature of not having to alternate skeins.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another little sweater, a top-down cabled baby cardigan that you may have seen on display here at the shop. Robin knit it with Rowan Pure Wool Worsted<\/a> in preparation for her upcoming class on the subject – a good opportunity to get an introduction to top-down sweater-knitting on a small scale. Read more about the class on our Classes page<\/a>, where you can sign up, too!<\/p>\n

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Sue is passionate about sweater-making, as we’ve seen on previous<\/a> show-and-tell posts, so you might not be surprised to learn that she’s visited us\u00a0with no less than four finished sweaters in the past couple of months. She made the sweater above with Mirasol Hacho out of our sale trunk, then embellished it with bits and pieces from her stash. The pattern is from Anna Zillboorg’s inspiring Splendid Apparel<\/a><\/em>, a book of embroidered knits.<\/p>\n

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Sue is also interested in variations, and how a single pattern may differ\u00a0from garment to garment by changing the fiber or color. Above is Sue’s “Equinox,”<\/a> knit with Shibui Linen<\/a>. Below is “Equinox” again, this time with Shibui Twig<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This last one is a bit of a mystery, a textured short-sleeved cardigan Sue knit with a now-discontinued yarn called Rock Cotton from our shop’s early days. She wasn’t sure the source of the pattern, and though I’ve scoured Ravelry, I haven’t turned it up – still and all, it’s a great-looking knit that Sue loves to wear, and that is exactly what we hope for all sweater-knitters!<\/p>\n

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Thanks to all who begin their projects with a trip to the Hillsborough Yarn Shop!\u00a0Keep an eye out\u00a0for more show and tell here on the blog in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“What are you thinking about making?” If you’ve visited our shop, you’ve likely been asked this question by myself, Anne, Rosi, or whoever else may be helping out that day. We ask this not just to help connect you\u00a0with the right yarn, pattern, or tools, but also because we’re genuinely interested. We love hearing your … [more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[111,247,212,63,40,93],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}