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Aran, lace and cable free knitting patterns for women ; knit a cardigan 

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.
If your gauge is different, choose another knitting pattern from this page or go to basic knitting patterns, for an other knitting pattern.

At knitting stitches you will find lots of other aran and cable knitting patterns.
Design your own knitting pattern, with these charts and a basic knitting pattern of your choice.

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.

knitting stitches  with illustrations

cable stitches symbols long legend  and knitting stitches lace symbols long legend

The Japanese knitting patterns are not a translation of the free knitting patterns from Gosyo Co Japan,
because I cannot read Japanese.
They are my interpretation of these patterns, but they are based on these free patterns.

I have tried to understand the Japanese knitting charts and I have made the knitting charts in symbols,
and if possible, in text patterns too.

The aran knitting patterns are based on Japanese cable knitting patterns, with knitting chart and knitting pattern.
You can knit these beautiful Japanese knitting patterns now too.
I personally think the Japanese have a very high standard of knitting. Enjoy.

omens cardigan patterns with aran, cable or lace knitting stitches

big tutorial about knitting swatches before starting to knit

KNIT YOUR TENSION SWATCH FIRST, IF YOU USE A STITCH PATTERN, KNIT SWATCH IN THIS
PATTERN, THEN CHOOSE YOUR PATTERN WITH THE RIGHT GAUGE

first a picture of clothes model click and see what your pattern will look like

the numbers; for instance 8 x 12 = your gauge

so you have to knit a tension swatch first

then choose your pattern with the right gauge

The images here are (C) Pierrot Yarns, for the original Japanese patterns go to Gosyo.shop.

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40

In some South American countries, particularly Chile, a woman's cardigan is known as "chaqueta rebeca."
The name derives from the film Rebecca (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which the character played by Joan Fontaine wore this type of sweater.

Women around the world benefit from a wide array of women's cardigan sweaters from the casual woman cardigan in a light cotton to a classic cashmere cardigan wrap for dressy occasions (men on the other hand typically wear cardigans solely as casual wear).

While the Irish fishermen's cardigan sweater for women is popular with women and men alike, women can find lighter cardigans in wool, cotton or cashmere with lace, pearl or jewel accenting on the collar or buttons.

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40

KNIT YOUR TENSION SWATCH FIRST, IF YOU USE A STITCH PATTERN, KNIT SWATCH IN THIS
PATTERN, THEN CHOOSE YOUR PATTERN WITH THE RIGHT GAUGE

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40

woman's clothes

stitch / gauge

knitting pattern
size 32-40