Pattern Inspiration:

This year, 2016, is the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Smart Knits - a knitting group out of Logan, Utah - thought that a great way to celebrate the National Park Service and the sublime lands that it protects was to design a National Parks blanket. The blanket is made up of 60 blanket squares - one to celebrate each of the 59 National Parks and one square to celebrate the National Park Service itself.

Lassen Volcanic National Park is located just north of the transition from the Sierra Nevada granitic batholith to the intermediate-mafic volcanics of the Cascades in northeastern California. It was established as a National Park in 1916 and is home to every type of volcano that exists on earth! The designer visited this park every summer during her 6 years teaching in Bakersfield, Ca. As a less popular and more difficult to access location, Lassen Volcanic National Park was always peaceful in addition to being gorgeous, rugged and awesome. In the less accessed north of the park is Cinder Cone, Bathtub Lake, and The Painted Dunes. This square represents the view one gets of the red, black and gold dunes from the peak of the black basalt Cinder Cone.

This Pattern:

If you purchase this pattern, you will receive only the pattern for the Lassen Volcanic National Park blanket square. If you would like to purchase a subscription to all of the blanket squares please buy the eBook.

All proceeds from this pattern will be donated to the National Park Foundation in celebration of the National Park Service Centennial.