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.

At 400 miles of explored tunnels, Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world. Winding through the limestone below Kentucky, its passages were used for millennia by Native Americans before the cave was taken by European colonists and became a saltpeter reserve during the War of 1812. The caverns are important archeological and biological sites, but what the designers of this square remembers best are the expansive rotunda halls and the amazing staircase leading down into the main cavern mouth. The Mammoth Cave colorwork square represents the cave park entrance, dripping with green vegetation from the forest above.

This Pattern:

If you purchase this pattern, you will receive only the pattern for the Mammoth Cave 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.