Maude Cowl Kit - The Knitting Salon Yarn and Pattern Club

Maude Cowl Yarn Kit - 

Your kit contains all the yarn you need to knit the elegant Maud cowl, inspired by the decorative end papers found in the book, No Surrender by Constance Maud and which used the colours of the British suffragette movement. This book follows the story of its heroine Jenny Clegg, a Lancashire textile worker and her part in the women's suffrage movement of the early 1910s. From this inspiration I have designed two intricate Stranded Colourwork motifs which traverse the surface of this tubular, moebius cowl. Maud is knitted in the round to create a tubular cowl. Work commences with a provisional cast-on and is completed by grafting the two ends together to create a continuous loop. A 180 degree twist is added prior to the graft being worked to add the modern, moebius element to the design.

The Maud cowl uses four colours of our beautiful Excelana North DK weight yarn, spun from 100% British wool at a nearby Yorkshire mill and hand-dyed here at our Lake District studio, in colours inspired by the Suffragette movement. Emmeline - a rich, vibrant purple, Atonement - a bold, leaft green, Snowdrop the natural undyed shade of Excelana North, plus Colne, a soft, stone shade to represent the Lancashire mills of the Victorian age, where the story of No Surrender begins.

The pattern also includes instructions for an alternative vintage-esque neck warmer using the same beautiful colourwork pattern. The muffler is knitted in the round but is not joined into a loop but is finished with tassels at each end of its length.

No Surrender by Constance Maud:

Published in the 1910s, this choice takes a close, dramatic look at the struggle for women's suffrage in Britain in the first decade of the twentieth century.