Grace Sweater

Description

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Designed for the Isager Archives 2 collection 2025

About the Design
The Grace Sweater is inspired by Marianne Isager’s Majs Sweater from the 80s and 90s. The beautiful graphic pattern aroused my curiosity: So how can I develop a new, modern design that still carries this inspiration?

In the design process, I quickly approached a vision that expresses both calm and movement. After many experiments, sketches and even more gauges, the continuous graphic and linear pattern emerged: vertical lines that run like a scenic echo and create a rhythmic calm with timeless power.

The fit is easily oversized and modern, making the sweater versatile to combine – regardless of season or wardrobe.
The Grace Sweater is a tribute to modern Nordic knitting – a design that gracefully carries its history from the past to the present.

Ich freue mich sehr, Teil dieser Kollektion – Isager Archives 2 – zu sein. Die Arbeit am Grace Sweater war lehrreich, spannend und inspirierend. Ich hoffe, dass auch andere Stricker*innen dieselbe Freude, Ruhe und Neugierde empfinden, die mich durch den gesamten Prozess begleitet haben.

Konstruktion
First, stitches for the right shoulder of the back part are struck. This little piece is knitted with increases. Then the left shoulder is knitted in the same way. Subsequently, the two shoulder pieces are connected to each other with newly folded stitches, so that the back part is created. This is knitted up to the specified length.

Stitches for the right and left front parts are then picked up. Both front parts are worked separately with increases along the neck edge, then connected in the middle and knitted to the specified length.

When the front and back parts are connected, the body is knitted in rounds until the fret is worked. Finally, the sleeves are knitted individually and the neckline.
The sweater is seamlessly knitted.

Grössen
XS (S) M (L) XL (2XL) 3XL

Breast circumference (body measure): 80–85 (85–90) 90–95 (95–105) 105–115 (115–125) 120–130 cm

Breast circumference of the sweater: ca. 102 (109) 116 (123) 130 (138) 145 cm

Länge: 56 (57) 58 (60) 61 (62) 63 cm

Ärmellänge: 42 (42) 42 (42) 42 (42) 42 cm

Passform
The Grace Sweater is worn with about 20 cm movement width.

Material

Jensen, Isager Yarn, 100% wool, 100 g / 250 m

Primary colour (GF): 300–350 (300–350) 300–350 (350–400) 400–450 (450–450) 450–500 g, colour 6s

Sample colour (MF): 250–300 (250–300) 250–300 (300–350) 300–350 (350–400) 350–400 g, colour 100

Recommended needle sizees
Rundstricknadel 4.5 mm, 80–100 cm
Rundstricknadel 4 mm, 80–100 cm
Rundstricknadel 3.5 mm, 40 cm

Gauge
22 M x 22 R = 10 x 10 cm on needle 4.5 mm in smooth right after sample (diagram A)

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.