This pattern is exclusively available as a free download only to advance ticket holders for the North West Winter Wool Festival in Blackpool, held in February 2025. It will become publicly available to all in mid-March 2025.

The texture of this stitch pattern gives a truly cosy finished fabric, perfect for a winter cowl and it also echoes the windows on the front of The Imperial Hotel in Blackpool, for which it is named.

The pattern includes options for DK and aran weight yarns and for knitting flat or in the round.

Yarn – 100g of any DK or Aran weight yarn

For DK yarn
Needles
4mm, straight needles 30cm long if working flat, or 40-60cm circular if working in the round, or size to obtain desired tension.

Tension
10cm = 18 sts x 40 rows/rnds over Stitch Patt, on 4mm needles after washing and drying flat

Finished Measurements
55cm (72.5cm) circumference x 16cm high

For Aran yarn
Needles
5mm, straight needles 30cm long if working flat, or 50-60cm circular if working in the round, or size to obtain desired tension.

Tension
10cm = 15.5 sts x 32 rows/rnds over Stitch Patt, on 5mm needles after washing and drying flat

Finished Measurements
57cm (73cm) circumference x 20cm high