I recommand to anybody wanting to knit Green Wood to underline the row numbers in the colour chart where increases are made as I inadvertly skipped several of them because they were only signalled in the written pattern and not in the chart! I had to rip out 28 rows of colour work because I had skipped 2 increases by only looking at the chart and not reading again the pattern!

There is a wonderful spring 2011 KAL HERE at the BOHUS Stickning Group for all Bohus knitters! Lots of tutorials and useful tips!

I have written down my modifications and observations as I knit along in the hope that this will help other ravelers planning to knit a BOHUS.

My Green Wood is finished and I LOVE IT! It is simply gorgeous and soooooo soft! It weighs 214g (with 3/4 sleeves) and I have exactly 150g of the MC 258 left over of originally 305g.

GAUGE
As my gauge is slightly off (32st instead of 33 on 2.5mm needles) I am making following modifications:
Gauge 2.5mm needles colour work: 32X44 st.
Gauge 2.25mm needles plain stockinett (in the round): 32X 44.
In the end I knit the whole Bohus on 2.5mm needles and it came out very nicely.

Joining yarns: I am spit-splicing. See discussion about it here

YOKE
May 1st 2011 I have at last the time to unpack the Green Wood kit and to shock the yarn to avoid sheding and pilling, as described by Freeda.
Shocking went well.Yarn is soft and fuzzy. I weighed all the skeins/colours and I have already made mini-balls of all of them with the yarn number stuck in place on the outside. The colours are stunning!
I plan to store them in a small tuperware box as the tiny balls are very delicate.
May 2nd 2011 Cast-on for folded neck Bohus sweater. I plan to knit it in the round.
May 15th I am in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and I have brought my Green Wood Bohus with me. It is so beautiful to see the colours slowly unfold.I am posting my progress pictures taken before leaving Switzerland on May 10th.
June 7th 2011 I am on row 58 out of 68 in the colour work. I have a bit difficulties to make a really good picture of the yoke just now but colours are most true in picture 1.
June 27th 2011 Yoke completed. 408 st. Stopped knitting until I am back from Tanzania to Switzerland and have reflected about which needle size I will take for the Body.
Amount of yarn used for the yoke / leftover

• 65 dark pine 6.7g--> 0.3g
• 111 dark teal 5g --> 2g
• 112 pale emerald 2g --> 1g
• 124 grass green 6g --> 1g
• 203 khaki/moss green 8g --> 3g
• 254 light emerald 5g --> 1g
• 258 Pine green MC 8g --> 298g
• 259 very light turkis 4g --> 1g
• 260 turkis 11g --> 2g
• 261 dark emerald 9g --> 2g

BODY
July 2nd I used Ermabom’s explanations to knit Green Wood’s body in the round and I used these shadow wrap short rows! You can see how the short rows lowered the front neckline in the picture taken from the side.

Modifications:

• knitting XXS in the round to get fitted S

• 408 st. end of yoke divided: 120/84/120/84

• 8x 2 increases: 136/100/136/100 while doing short rows

• CO 5 st.under each arm: 141/141

• Making a faux seam with one purl stitch under each arm. Explanations here and decreases on each side of the faux seam

• Waist decreases: every 6th row 3x then every 5th row X 11 = minus 56 stitches in all (226 st. at narrowest point)

• knit even 10 rows

• Waist increases: every 7th row

• Knitting 3/4 sleeves with a colourwork edge and turned seam (1 purl row)

• Turned seam (1 purl row) also for body: To see better the row above which I wanted to sew the hem in I did a crochet life line but only through every 10th stitch leading the fine cotton thread on the back (wrong side of the body) so that the lifeline was very visible on the inside, then knitted 12 rows then 1 row purl stitches, then knitted 11 rows of the seam with 2mm needles and bounf loosely off with a 3.5mm needle. -Seaming: What I did was to bast (do you say so?) the turned hem with contrasting cotton thread to fix it into place while I sew it. Sew Hem 1 row above the lifeline to avoid flipping.

July 9th Had to rip 30 rows of plain stockinett as I realised that the body was too wide! Now only 5 stitches increase under the arms = 2 inches/ 5cm less in circumference.
August 19th Finished body tonight

SLEEVES
August 20th I am making 3/4 sleeves (I hate long sleeves up to my wrists) with a turned hem with some colour work (I have not much colours left though) just before the turning edge. I also want to knit my 2 sleeves simultanously to avoid 2nd sleeves syndrome and to be able to mirror the sleeves decreases to the spot. So the plan is the following:

• knit both sleeves simultanously in the round and on magic loop (with this I mean knitting alternatingly on each sleeve to the next decrease row) so that they are identical.
• divide my remaining colour yarns evenly in 2 for knitting the colour work on the cuff.
• begin colour work 5 cm before expected sleeve end
• Knit last row in main colour and knit a purl row (for turning point)
• knit 3-4 cm more and sew that in.

Picked up 5 underarm stitches + 100 st. on waste yarn = 105 st. Making a faux seam and knitting with magic loop.
- 1 decrease rnd on every 5th round 3 times as follows:
1-4. rnd: stst
5. rnd: 1 decrease on each side of the middle stitch under the arm.
- 1 decrease rnd on every 8th round 13 times as follows:
1-7. rnd: stst
8. rnd: 1 decrease on each side of the middle stitch under the arm.
I am marking my decreases with a thread of light blue cotton to keep track of them (see picture of the body). 72 stitches left. Begin of colour cuff with remaining colours and knitting my own pattern inspired by Bohus.

Brief history on how it came that I can now knit the Green Wood, my wish Bohus!
October 2010
This blue green Bohus(bottom picture) is my absolute wish Bohus but it is not yet available either as pattern or as kit. May be if many knitters lobby Solveig for it at Solsilke it could be one of the next kits recreated! If you like the pattern of green wood, go to wish list Bohus kits and vote for it:-) Thanks! :-)))))

February 2011
Coming back into cold snowy CH from abroad I had a wonderful surprise: Solveig has recreated the Green Wood (picture 17 is from her site) and it can be admired and bought here on her site (go to Bohus stickning). I ordered it today (February 3rd 2011)!Waiting for the kit to arrive.