Barbara top
Top
Design: Marianne Isager
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A Knitting Life 1 - Back to Tversted
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MATERIALS AND MEASUREMENTS
MATERIALS
150 – 250 g Isager Tweed (Depending on the desired length)
100 – 150 g Isager Spinni
There is the potential to knit with different colors of Spinni and recommended colors are:
– Tweed, Color Autumn with alternating stripes in Spinni, Colors 47
and 42
– Tweed, Color Thunder with alternating stripes in Spinni, Colors 7s and 35s
– Tweed Color Navy with alternating stripes in Spinni, Colors 4s and 13s
– Or, a Main Color in Tweed with the option of lots of different Spinni leftover colors.
MEASUREMENTS
Chest Circumference: 160 cm or 63 inches
Total Length: 50 – 70 cm or 20 – 28 inches
CONSTRUCTION NOTES
The Top is knitted from the bottom up. Over the last 20 cm the sloped shoulders are worked. The Front has neckline shaping, while the Back does not. The Front is worked first and then the Back is worked. The shoulders are knitted together. The side seams are sewn together and then the armhole edges and the neck edge are worked.
RECOMMENDED NEEDLE SIZE
3.5 mm (US 4)
A KNITTING LIFE – BACK TO TVERSTED
The book ‘A Knitting Life – Back to Tversted’ is a book about Marianne Isager’s first 20 years as a knitwear designer and as owner of the yarn company, ISAGER. Marianne tells about her inheritance from Åse Lund Jensen and about her efforts to combine family life and knitting life in the small village of Tversted.
The book contains stories and pictures from the 70s and 80s, and 15 new patterns with knitting instructions using the same techniques seen in designs from the two decades.
The book is available in Danish and English. The Danish title is: ET STRIKKELIV – TILBAGE TIL TVERSTED
Patterns in the book: Barbara, Barbara top, Braids, Chess, Easy, Gaudi, Honeymoon, Horseshoe, Jacquard, Newspaper, Scottish Check, Squares, Triangles, Twisted Cables og Wings to fly.
