WW1 Memorial Quilt – Bill – Milkman

This piece only took 2 days to knit.  I always knew that I wanted to knit a design which included milk churns.  Originally I had intended to include a bit of black and white cow as well – but in the end I decided to keep it simple.

The design is an echo of the design for an office worker.   For those men I knitted a beige filing cabinet outlined in darker brown with red and green.  For this design I used the same shade of beige and used a different colour for each milk churn.

The piece consists of 161 stitches – it is the widest piece of the quilt – which is suitable for rows of milk churns.  I knitted 66 rows.

This piece is named after my third cousin, twice removed: William Carswell who was actually a cowman.  He may not have had anything to do with milk but I don’t know.  He was a private in the 15^th battalion of the Sherwood Foresters who died on 28 March 1918 aged 20.  It is also to remember my third cousin, three times removed: Frederick Henry Clark who was a milkman.  He was a private in the 8^th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment who died on 1 March 1917 aged 32.