The First Annual Geek-A-Long

Come with me, my friends. Let’s knit a mysterious, geeky blanket together. 

Each Sunday in 2014, we’ll* post a double sided knitting pattern for a geek themed 10″ x 10″ square. After 48 weeks (and squares), we’ll post how to turn them into a blanket and end 2014 feeling really awesome about ourselves. It will be the greatest mystery knit-along of all time or at least until 2015.

I’m getting tingly just thinking about it.

Now, you might be asking yourself, “What the heck is a knit-along?” A knit-along (or KAL) is an event where people get together to knit for a common purpose. For us, that purpose is to improve our double sided knitting skills, raise awareness for Child’s Play Charity, and donate our Geek-A-Long blanket to their cause.

Child’s Play Charity provides games and toys to kids in hospitals and they recently expanded to include families in domestic violence shelters. Through the use of video games, these hospitals and domestic violence shelters are able to entertain, distract, and interact with children through the power of play. To learn more about the charity and ways to help the cause, please visit their website for more information.

If you join us for Geek-A-Long 2014, we encourage you to make a donation via our official CP Chairity donation widget so we can keep track of how much we’ve helped them earn for this great cause. We only ask that you please refrain from using our patterns for profit. We don’t own any of character licenses and you probably don’t either.

Who’s with us?

UPDATE: You can learn more about the Geek-A-Long (GAL) here and find the answers to frequently asked questions.

~ Jac

*And by we, I mean Megan-Anne. Crochet for life!

If you enjoyed this post, please consider making a donation to Child’s Play Charity. Here is a direct link to our official donation page benefiting the charity. Please help us raise $1,000 this year. No contribution is too small! Wanna make your donation go even further? Lattes & Llamas will donate $1 for every skein of Geek-A-Long Yarn purchased.

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  8. Rebecca says:

    Start now or wait for 2015………….
    Might wait and do a mix of both into a blanket….
    Lovely ideas so many lovely ones to choose from so glad I stumbles upon this page

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