The Machiasport Rail Road Cowl is for all level of knitters from someone just learning to knit to seasoned knitters looking for a quick easy project. You only need to know four stitches which are cast-on, knit, purl and bind-off. It contains line by line instructions and a percentage of completion to encourage you along the way.

This was written for a beginners knitting class.

This cowl is named after the Whitneyville and Machiasport Rail Road from the 1800’s that was used to bring the lumber from the sawmill in Whitneyville, Maine down to the coast in Machiasport, Maine to be loaded on ships and sold around the world.