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FO Friday – Gansey is Done!

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I cast this gansey on January 3 and finished knitting it July 2, so roughly 6 months on this one sweater – but I feel like it was worthwhile. The pattern is Susan’s Eriskay gansey by Beth Brown-Reinsel (ravelry link). I made this as part of a gansey-related KAL with Alissa of Snakes & Cranes, Liz of Highland Heffalump, and Sara of mildlygranola. We each picked a gansey-related pattern and went for it!

I did make some changes. I changed the diamond and cross patterns up somewhat. Also, the original has a pine tree pattern in there that I replaced with the arrows. Also, I decided to make the cables swirl out from the center on the front, back, and sleeves. The original pattern has them all swirling the same way. And I changed to a square neck rather than the crew neck in the original. And finally (I think) I made the collar and cuffs garter rather than ribbing. But other than that, same sweater!

The yarn is Frangipani 5 ply Guernsey yarn in the Cordova colorway. The yarn color is special, because it is dyed especially for a little shop in Alaska (The Net Loft in Cordova AK) that does a lot around gansey knitting. It is a fishing community, and the shop owner is all-in on ganseys. The color of the yarn is the color of the water in Cordova’s harbor area. When I bought this yarn (2018) I had all kinds of grand plans of designing my own gansey pattern with Alaska symbols and so on. And I do have one half way designed. But eventually, I had to just knit a darn gansey!

I am very happy with how it turned out! I will post modeled pictures someday when it is not 89 F out. It is not gansey weather right now, but gansey weather is coming 🙂

Have you finished any big undertakings lately? How did you celebrate?

19 thoughts on “FO Friday – Gansey is Done!”

  1. Well that looks fabulous. I love how the colour sometimes looks grey, sometimes blue or green. It definitely has the sea colour magic. I’m only at the make a few tweaks to the pattern ability stage but you are becoming a master of alterations and adaptations. It looks very smart too. Sounds like the yarn will last well given its intended use.

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  4. Mirrored cables are as they should be! Nicely done; your sweater looks great. But warm!

    I finished a design, and I can’t decide if the instructions sound too complicated. It’s simple in my head, until I have to write it!

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    1. Thank you! Sadly, I never got to the Net Loft while we lived in AK, but I do love their web store 🙂 They seem to have a lot of wonderful things going on for the community! Right up until I finished my gansey I swore never again. But now there is another one I’m thinking about…

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