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© Moray Firth Gansey Project June 2018

This project was part-financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and by the Scottish Government and The European Community Rural Aberdeenshire, Highland and Moray LEADER 2007 – 2013 Programmes.

Whitehills - road to Duffus and mini cables

Pattern detail
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NB this pattern draft is an approximation.  It is difficult to see how the stitches have been made.

Donated by: Lena Brown

Colour: cream

Pattern: all over body pattern; road to Duffus and mini snake cables - both created with interlocked stitches - no purl except in ribbed areas; road to Duffus centred front and back; not knitted in the round

Welt: single rib: 6.5 cm (2.5 inches)

Chest: 96.5 cm (38 inches)

Gusset: no gusset; 14 underarm stitches contnue into sleeve

Shoulders: approximately 5 cm (2 inches) of cable pattern knitted each side of neck as extensions to front chest, stitched at back

Sleeves: plain, knitted flat downwards - stitches picked up from armhole; cuff: single rib; 6.5 cm (2.5 inches); total sleeve length: 48.25 cm (19 inches)

Neck: single rib 12.5 cm (5 inches)