Edda Sweater

Description

fOTOS © isager + © Hanne Rimmen, design and knitting instructions © Hanne Rimmen

The distinctive vertical lines of the Edda Sweater are inspired by Marianne Isager’s Krydser design from the eighties. The sweater pays tribute to the original’s iconic style.
The Edda Sweater embodies classical aesthetics and is the result of a harmonious fusion of two epochs and the shared love of two designers for the graphic and timeless.
Designed for the Isager Archives 2 collection 2025

Konstruktion

The Edda Sweater is a smooth right knitted sweater, which is worked in the Jacquard pattern according to diagram. The sweater is worked from top to bottom with a European shoulder. First, the upper fit of the back part is worked back and forth. Then, stitches for shoulders and fore-ends are grasped along the shoulder lines of the back part. When the upper part of the foreheads are finished, and the neckline is formed, these parts are collected, and the work is knitted back and forth until the specified depth of the armline is reached. Now the front and back parts are collected, and from here work is done in rounds according to diagram. The body is worked until it reaches the desired length. The lower fret is knitted and the stitches are chained off in Italian. After that, stitches are grasped along the arm cutout, and the sleeves are worked from top to bottom in rounds. Finally, stitches are grasped along the neck cutout.
This guide works in such a way that a thread is the dominant thread. This achieves a beautiful, similar expression.

Sizes

1 (2) 3 (4)

Maße
Brustumfang 104 (122) 139 (156) cm.
Länge 53 (58) 62 (62) cm, measured below the bee on the back.

MATERIAL

Hauptfarbe
200 (200) 250 (300) g Isager Tweed col Charcoal together with
150 (150) 200 (250) g Highland Wool col Charcoal

Contrast colour (dominant)
150 (200) 200 (250) g Isager Tweed Color Oak together with
100 (150) 200 (250) g Highland Wool Color Stone

The wine red Edda Sweater was knitted in the following colour:
Main color: Isager Tweed Fb. Wine, Highland Wool Fb. Wine
Contrast color (dominant) Isager Tweed Fb. Oak, Highland Wool Stone

Recommended needles
Circular knitting needle 3,5 mm – 80-100 cm + 4.0 mm – 80-100 cm + 4,5 mm – 80-100 cm
double-pointed needles 3.5 mm + 4.0 mm

Gauge
23 M and 23 Rd on Nd 4.5 mm = 10×10 cm The gauge is knitted in the sample. Knitting stress shall be measured after washing and tensioning

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.