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Cardigan sweaters are great for fall and winter, and a cool breeze. You'll find pullover sweaters for casual wear, dressy sweaters, knit a warm and comfy cardigan.

The cardigan sweater has long been a mainstay of fashionable women everywhere.
Cardigan sweaters are typically manufactured from wool, but faux wool cardigans have witnessed a resurgence over the past 10 years.
There are three types of cardigan sweaters. Cardigans with a zipper down the middle. Button-up cardigans can be fastened by buttons which march down the middle of the sweater.
Finally, twin set cardigan sweaters come with inner shells to wear under the cardigans, which can be mixed and matched as an outfit dictates.
This distinguished wool garment continues to fascinate women's clothes designers, and a number of top-end manufacturers and producers have recently experimented with the cardigan form.

he aran knitting patterns are based on Japanese cable knitting patterns, with knitting chart and knitting pattern.
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At knitting stitches you will find lots of other aran and cable knitting patterns.
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Aran, cable and lace patterns

Free knitting patterns for women's cardigans

cardigan is a type of sweater/jumper with buttons down the front; by contrast, a pullover does not open in front, but forms a solid tube around the torso.
It is usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool or cotton.

Today, Aran knitwear made on or off the Aran Islands either by machine or by hand are standard items in Irish tourist shops. On Inishmaan, the least visited of the three islands and still the repository of the purest Irish spoken in Ireland, the tradition continues in a very special and unique way. Here, sweaters made in cashmere, alpaca, mohair, linen, and silk are dispatched every week on the little nine-seater Aer Arann Islander commuter plane bound for Galway, and then Shannon airport and on to the fashion capitals of the world. These are the desirable luxury knits, the "New Age" Arans from the Inis Meáin Knitwear Company, that make it to the pages of Vogue, Stern, The Financial Times, and Frankfurter Allgemein and which can be found in elegant boutiques in Paris, New York, London, Milan, and Tokyo. More information about Aran Isle knitwear.