{"id":117942,"date":"2024-06-27T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/27\/ireland-creates-custom-cardigan-for-taylor-swift-and-you-can-knit-one-yourself\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:03:00","slug":"ireland-creates-custom-cardigan-for-taylor-swift-and-you-can-knit-one-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/27\/ireland-creates-custom-cardigan-for-taylor-swift-and-you-can-knit-one-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland creates custom cardigan for Taylor Swift \u2014 and you can knit one yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-26\/M_TaylorSwiftSweater_062624.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Courtesy F\u00e1ilte Ireland <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> has visited Ireland multiple times, and she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/assets.teenvogue.com\/photos\/5fd376c4311bfbf5a8a58110\/16:9\/w_1600,c_limit\/P1_000066350004_r.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wore<\/a> a traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aran.com\/history-of-aran-sweaters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Irish Aran sweater<\/a> for the photoshoot promoting her album <em>evermore<\/em>. So, as the Eras Tour prepares to invade Dublin, the Emerald Isle has created a custom cardigan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20240625659132\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just for her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabrielle Malone<\/strong>, a young Irish designer, was been tapped to create <a href=\"https:\/\/images.ireland.com\/media\/Images\/magazine\/culture\/taylor-swift\/48ac6aa8200f401c8835f380a2cb1096.webp?w=1934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the custom cardigan<\/a>, which includes various traditional stitches, each inspired by a part of Ireland that Taylor has visited over the years. Those locations include County Wicklow, which she references in the song &#8220;Sweet Nothings,&#8221; County Cavan and Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The cardigan also includes &#8220;1989&#8221; stitched on <a href=\"https:\/\/images.ireland.com\/media\/Images\/magazine\/culture\/taylor-swift\/78b4a1a84379418e909aeeeb54bd64af.webp?w=1934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the collar<\/a>, with &#8220;13&#8221; on one cuff and &#8220;T.S.&#8221; on the other.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, you can&#8217;t buy the sweater\u00a0because only two were made. One was given away in a contest, and the other will be presented to Taylor when she arrives in Ireland for her shows. However, if you&#8217;ve got some mad knitting skillz, you can create your own version of the sweater: the pattern is <a href=\"https:\/\/images.ireland.com\/media\/Project\/Website\/BrochuresPDFFiles\/0809008b0730451785560c45f2ae9919.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And in other Irish Taylor news, the Irish Family History Centre and Dublin&#8217;s Irish Emigration Museum have researched her family&#8217;s ties to the country. It turns out <a href=\"https:\/\/epicchq.com\/taylor-swift-the-love-story-before-love-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she&#8217;s a descendant<\/a> of<strong> Susan Davis<\/strong> and <strong>Francis Gwynn<\/strong>, a couple who met while crossing the Atlantic on a ship\u00a0that left from Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1836.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a whole exhibit on it \u2014 called <em>The Love Story before Love Story<\/em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epicchq.com\/event\/the-love-story-before-love-story-swiftie-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running now<\/a>\u00a0at the Irish Emigration Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy F\u00e1ilte Ireland Taylor Swift has visited Ireland multiple times, and she\u00a0wore a traditional Irish Aran sweater for the photoshoot promoting her album evermore. So, as the Eras Tour prepares to invade Dublin, the Emerald Isle has created a custom cardigan just for her. Gabrielle Malone, a young Irish designer,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/27\/ireland-creates-custom-cardigan-for-taylor-swift-and-you-can-knit-one-yourself\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}