Cabled Gansey by Michael Harvey & Rae Compton

Cabled Gansey

Knitting
January 1978
DK (11 wpi) ?
12 stitches and 16 rows = 2 inches
in stocking stitch on 3.25 mm needles
US 2 - 2.75 mm
US 3 - 3.25 mm
40 (42, 44) in / 102 (107, 112) cm
English

Materials: 29 (30, 32) x 26g balls

Measurements:

  • To fit chest - 40 (42, 44) in / 102 (107, 112) cm
  • Length from top of shoulders - 25.25 (25.5, 25.75) in / 64 (65, 65) cm
  • Sleeve seam - 19 (19, 20) in / 48 (48, 51) cm

Cable and diamond patterned gansey with ribbed sleeves apparently based on one worn by James Haylett in an old photograph from the early 1900s

Mr. Haylett’s gansey appears to have banded patterned sleeves and is plain below the chest. The Shire Album 31 pattern has ribbed sleeves and continues the pattern down the body.