Broad Reach – a Maine Windjammer Blog

There’s always a reason to pick up knitting needles and delicious yarn, and now we have a very good reason to do just that. From now until March 26^th, as a fundraiser for the Ashwood Waldorf School, we will be knitting as many 8” squares as we can and gathering pledges & sponsors per square as we can.

Want to help out? You can sign up to knit your own squares and gather pledges for them or you could sponsor our squares. At the conclusion of the fundraiser one special blanket will be auctioned off, and a trip for two aboard your choice of the J&E Riggin’s knitting cruises (3 days in June or 6 days in September) will be raffled off. All knitters and sponsors will be eligible for entry in the raffle! You will have until March 26th to knit and collect pledges.

As an added bonus Hope Spinnery (a wind powered spinnery making yarn from local sheep) has offered up to 50% off their yarn selection to anyone knitting for Ashwood. (Just mention you are knitting for the Ashwood Knit-A-Thon).

If you’d like to sign up to knit or sponsor us in knitting squares, please send us an email or give us a call.

Here’s how to participate:

To pledge Annie, Chloe & Ella’s squares email us at info@mainewindjammer.com. If you’d like to knit and gather pledges print out the pledge form and start gathering pledges for your knitted squares. Then start knitting.

If you are knitting here’s what you need to know. 

Knitting Instructions:

8-inch square
#9 US needles
Cast on 30 stitches
Knit each row until you have a square*
Bind off
**weave in ends**
* to see if you have a square, lay your knitting on a flat surface with the needle holding the working yarn at the top. Take the bottom, left corner and fold it diagonally up to the top, right of the knitting. This will form a triangle. If you have two, even triangles on top of each other – or if the top and right edges line up with no extra peeking out – then you have a square.

8-inch square
Larger needles and/or larger yarn
Use the same pattern but cast on fewer stitches
Smaller needles or smaller yarn
Use the same pattern but cast on more stitches

- Use only natural fiber yarn
- you are welcome to knit patterns into your squares
- your squares do not have to match each other
- worsted weight to bulky weight is better than really thin or really thick yarn 

We hope that you help make this a successful fundraiser for the school.

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