Showcase your creativity and contribute to a great cause!
To mark the 30th Back to Back Wool Challenge, a competition was held to find a beanie pattern that could be shared amongst the woolcraft community for the price of a donation to cancer support and research.
Avid knitter and first-time-pattern-writer, Linda Howie from Melbourne, Australia drew on her love of colourwork and her vocation as an engineer to create an ode to her ancestral connection to wool.
The Lancastrian Rose beanie is knit in 4ply/fingering and should fit an adult with a head circumference of 54 cm.
Tarndwarncoort 100% Polwarth wool 4ply / fingering yarn.
Available in 20gm - 75 metres (82 yards) and 100gm - 384 metres (419 yards) in the Natural, Origins and Homestead Garden Range.
Pattern is written with five (5) colours.
Background colour - 50gm
Colour A - 20gm
Colour B - 20gm
Colour C - 20gm
Colour D - 20gm
All proceeds of this pattern sale are donated to Rare Cancers Australia. See more here - https://give.rarecancers.org.au/fundraisers/tarndwarncoort/back-to-back-wool-challenge-at-tarndwarncoort-2026
Showcase your creativity and contribute to a great cause!
To mark the 30th Back to Back Wool Challenge, a competition was held to find a beanie pattern that could be shared amongst the woolcraft community for the price of a donation to cancer support and research.
Avid knitter and first-time-pattern-writer, Linda Howie from Melbourne, Australia drew on her love of colourwork and her vocation as an engineer to create an ode to her ancestral connection to wool.
The Lancastrian Rose beanie is knit in 4ply/fingering and should fit an adult with a head circumference of 54 cm.
Tarndwarncoort 100% Polwarth wool 4ply / fingering yarn.
Available in 20gm - 75 metres (82 yards) and 100gm - 384 metres (419 yards) in the Natural, Origins and Homestead Garden Range.
Pattern is written with five (5) colours.
Background colour - 50gm
Colour A - 20gm
Colour B - 20gm
Colour C - 20gm
Colour D - 20gm
All proceeds of this pattern sale are donated to Rare Cancers Australia. See more here - https://give.rarecancers.org.au/fundraisers/tarndwarncoort/back-to-back-wool-challenge-at-tarndwarncoort-2026
