Virginia Jakke

Description

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Designed for the Isager Archives 2 collection 2025

About the Design
Virginia Jacket is my re-imagination of Marianne Isager’s classic design Ringe and a part of the Isager Archives Collection 2025. The original design is characterized as a shorter and more fitted jacket and longer sleeves with the beautiful mosaic pattern. I kept the original construction and pattern but gave Virginia a more over-sized and cape-like style. Virginia is worked with tweed, which naturally has a lot of depth to the colors, emphasizing the beautiful contrast between the stripes. Virginia Jacket is my interpretation of a meeting between Marianne’s fantastic design expression and my own design interpretation.

Konstruktion
The jacket starts with casting stitches on at the bottom of the back piece. From here, the piece is worked straight up, where new stitches are cast on for both sleeves, which are worked together with the back. Later, neck stitches are bound off and each shoulder/front piece/sleeve is worked individually. At the end, the jacket is sewn together on the sides and sleeves, after washing and blocking.

Grössen
1 (2) 3

Breast circumference of the sweater: ca. 116 (135) 147 cm

Länge: 50 (58) 62 cm

Ärmellänge: 24 cm

Material

Isager Tweed (200 m / 50 g, 70 % wool and 30 % mohair) und Isager Silk Mohair (212 m / 25 g, 75 % super kid mohair and 25 % silk)

Colour A: 3 (4) 4 Balls Tweed and  3 (4) 4 Balls of mohair

Colour B: 3 (4) 4 balls Tweed and  3 (4) 4 Balls of mohair

Recommended needle sizees
circular knitting needle 4.5 mm, 60, 80 or 100 cm

Gauge
19 M x 34 R = 10 x 10 cm on needle 4.5 mm in the sample

The first Isager Archives collection was inspired by Åse Lund Jensen’s designs from the 60s and 70s. The Source of inspiration for the Isager Archives 2 collectionMarianne Isager’s designs from the 80s and 90s.
15 of Denmark’s most talented knitting designers spent a weekend with us in Tversted, with access to Marianne’s extensive sample collection.
The designers used one or more patterns as inspiration for their respective contributions to the Isager Archives 2 collection.