Knitting Irish Sweaters

Hello,

Has anyone bought or used pattern from these guys - http://www.clanarans.com/

I love the choice of patterns but each one cost like $30 dollars.

  • Any one use one of these patterns when knitting Irish sweaters - are they any good
  • Easy to follow?
  • Anyone know any other good place to get Irish Sweaters Patterns (for free would be great) willing to pay also.

Love to get 3 or 4 patterns at an good price!

Those sweaters look GREAT. I’ve never ordered from them but I’d like to (eventually). You can always look on Ravelry.com for other patterns.

hth,
knitcindy

Hi Knitcandy,

Sometime I feel like in looking for a needle in a haystack on Raverly! There’s so much there ! I haven’t really found anyone with really good Irish sweater patterns. Easy to find some cable knit sweater but I’m looking the proper heavier Aran Sweaters. The ones that take like a few months to make. I like looking at the Clanaran site for ideas haven’t seen other sites with as many sweaters.

If I find any good ones I’ll share I’m going to look around for a hour here and these this week.

I knitted this jumper last year http://www.knittinghelp.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115538. It’s a Drops pattern and I know a lot of people don’t like them but this one was easy enough to work with.

Hi all,

I’m getting it hard to get patterns. I want traditional Aran Sweater patters like they but I’m getting it hard to find anything good.

I haven’t tried these patterns or kits but they look interesting to me:
http://www.aransweatermarket.com/clanaran-patterns-kits

Ravelry (free to join) also has a number of Aran knits in all sizes from dolls to adults:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/search#page=1&query=aran%20knit%20sweaters&sort=best&view=captioned_thumbs

Is there a particular pattern stitch that you’re interested in?

Thanks, I like the Aran Garments but maybe something different than the cable ties. Maybe honeycomb, diamond or basket… Some good ideas here http://www.sweatershop.com/womens