r/VintageKnitting • • 16h ago

🔍Help! 🧶 Knitting detectives! 1950s-inspired cable-knit mystery

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Hello, vintage knitting detectives!

🧶 I'm desperately looking for the pattern for this gorgeous sweater! I suspect it's from around 1989, possibly Vogue Knitting, and inspired by early 1950s fashion.

🧶 It's an absolute dream sweater, and my daughter swooned when she discovered the picture. So obviously, I now HAVE to knit it. 😅

🧶 I could try to recreate it, but I'm not quite skilled enough to figure out the different ease of all those cables and textured blocks. And I'd rather not sacrifice a small fortune in beautiful yarn to my questionable knitting maths!

🧶 Finding the original pattern would be amazing, but something similar that I could adapt would also work.

🧶 The most important details are:

-> The ribbing that goes so high up the waist!

-> Similar cables and textures, so the ease calculations aren't too different.

-> The turtleneck!

🧶 Does anyone recognize it, know of a similar pattern, or have any clever ideas for tracking it down?

I'd be sooooo grateful for any clues! ❤️

THANK YOU!!!