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.

Rocky Mountain National Park, located in the Front Range of Colorado, was established in 1915. The park contains amazing and unique ecosystems; from grasslands to alpine tundra to the 14, 000+ ft Longs Peak. Rocky Mountain National Park is the designer’s favorite national park and where she developed a love of wildflowers. Hundreds of species of wildflowers are found within the borders of Rocky Mountain National Park. The Colorado Blue Columbine, also known as “Rocky Mountain Columbine”, is one of the first flowers the designer learned to identify while visiting Rocky Mountain National Park. There is a waterfall in the park called Columbine Falls that is found along the designer’s favorite hike to Chasm Lake. This square features a Colorado Blue Columbine on a rich green background.

This Pattern:

If you purchase this pattern, you will receive only the pattern for the Rocky Mountain 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.