Combined pattern holder and pattern position indicator

A device for simultaneously holding a pattern to be followed and indicating pattern information, with the pattern to be followed including several rows, with each of the rows including a plurality of instructions for performing various stitches, comprising, in combination:

• a pattern support member including a top edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge, a second side edge, a pattern support face, and a back face, with the pattern support face allowing the support of the pattern to be followed thereon;
• means for holding the pattern to be followed on the pattern support face of the pattern support member;
• and notation means for simultaneously delineating and also for visually summarizing the pattern position in the pattern to be followed at a single visual location, with the notation means comprising, in combination:
• means for visually highlighting the row of the pattern to be followed and means located on the visually highlighting means for indicating the position of the pattern to be followed, with the visually highlighting means being movable upon the pattern support face of the pattern support member in a direction generally parallel to the side edges and between the top and bottom edges, wherein the visually highlighting means comprises an elongated bar member having a first end, a second end, a top edge, a bottom edge, a first face, and a second face, wherein first and second grooves are formed in the back face of the pattern support member adjacent and parallel to but spaced from the side edges of the pattern support member, and wherein the elongated bar member is movably mounted upon the pattern support face of the pattern support member by first and second L-shaped members attached to the first and second ends of the elongated bar member and by first and second springs attached to the first and second L-shaped members, with the L-shaped members including a first leg attached to the end of the bar member which extends adjacent and parallel to the side edge of the pattern support member and include a second leg attached to the first leg which extends adjacent and parallel to but spaced from the back face of the pattern support member;
• and with the spring being attached to the second leg of the L-shaped member for slidable movement within the groove on the back face of the pattern support member.