I think I would tend to say that something was a polo-neck jumper rather than a polo-neck sweater, and a v-neck jumper rather than a v-neck sweater, if that’s any help? Perhaps having a qualifier makes a difference?
Both your examples are noted as “Pattern Type Jumpers and Sweaters”, just to confound confusion further.
It’s very simple. Both are ganseys.
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I very much doubt that!
I agree with the limpet
My Grandma always bought me a nice gansey to go with a skirt or trousers that she made me
She was an expert seamstress
And was each, unlike the Rowan Moordale and Softyak DK ones TFM showed us, made of Guernsey wool (Ganseys are knitted in a particular wool, known as Guernsey 5-ply, a hard twist worsted spun wool available from specialist suppliers) and without seams? Because if not, it wasn’t a gansey any more than TFM’s ones are.
I think Twellsy will back me up when I observe that geansaí/gansey is often used generically in the sense of sweater/pullover
You and she are welcome to be inaccurate. A bit like calling just any old bead a Swarovski.
When one is the proud owner of a Guernsey made for you with yarn from the island one’s Grandma commissioned and presented to one as as “good warm gansey for your rallying” one can call it a gansey
Blows raspberry at the Fishy one
Indeed. So are garments of other patterns made from any old yarn which may never have seen a sheep “ganseys”? Because I would say not.
An jumper, to me at least, is closer fitting than a sweater. A sweater implies size & length, & if wool is specified, eg Aran, then weight too.
Carinthia.xx
I’ll gainsay yer gansey from Strathspey to Swansea:
T’was ever a jumper (but never a onesie!)
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With steel needles five and five-ply Seamen’s Iron
The Fish attempts The Limpet.
Limpet: (high five!) thanks for tryin’…
I have been too busy knitting to deal with that Limpet.
The balaclava is so that my face won’t freeze too much if I do manage to go and visit the DDD also pictured.
Eeek!
Lovely yarn…
Blimey Fishy
That’s very ‘Heroes of Telemark’…
Practical, &, I imagine, warm.
Did you work out the ombre effect yerself, or did the yarn come like that?
Carinthia.xx
Reminds me of IRA honour guards at funerals in West Belfast…
It’s the yarn: Stylecraft Dream Catcher “Rainbow Dreams”. And it is the yarn colours which make it un-sinister, I feel.
Very warm.
It is lovely yarn
I just have a dislike of balaclavas for historical reasons
I have a potential need for one, for meteorological reasons.
I fully understand Fanta
If you get to her furfle the DDD for me please
