Custom US-Sourced Tempestry Yarn!
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The Tempestry Project is personal and collaborative fiber art, environmental awareness, and climate activism via data visualization all rolled into a sprawling community of friends, artists, crafters, teachers, scientists, activists, nature lovers, and more.
For multiple reasons, creating our own US-sourced Tempestry yarn will bring our work more in line with the Tempestry ethos. These include using mulesing-free merino wool, supporting good domestic jobs (many of them union!), shrinking our carbon footprint, and knowing that we will be able to continue this work for years to come. All of these things resonate deeply with us personally, and with many of the thousands of Tempestry participants.
This is a big endeavor (about $1000 per color, 38 colors in total), and we would be so grateful for your help. If you're interested and able, we hope that you will consider contributing to this effort here, or shoot us an email if you'd prefer to contribute via PayPal, Venmo, or check. If you're unable to donate, please consider sharing this GoFundMe link with your knitting, textile, artist, climate, environmental, friend, and family circles.
No contribution is too big or too small! We've had donations ranging from $5 to $1000 and we are so very grateful for each and every one, especially in these times of financial precariousness for so many of us.
We are pleased to offer a limited run of thank-yous at the following donation levels. We will follow up with you about shipping addresses and customizable pieces. These will have quite a long shipping time, as handknitting is a slow and methodical process. Thank you in advance for your generosity and patience!
$50 - Tempestry Tote
$100 - 1 Mini New Normal Tempestry showing global warming 1969-2019 (7 left)
$200 - Pair of Mini Original Tempestries each showing daily high temperatures for one month for one location (8 left)
$300 - Custom Tempestry knitwear (scarf or shawl from locally hand dyed yarn ) (3 left)
$500 - Full sized New Normal Tempestry (Global, United States, or State) showing warming 1895-2019 (1 left)
Read about the Tempestry Project!
New York Times, February 22, 2020, "Knitters Chronicle Climate Change One Stitch at a Time"
Smithsonian Magazine, February 20, 2020, "How Knitting Enthusiasts Are Using Their Craft to Visualize Climate Change "
Huffington Post, February 13, 2020, "Temperature Blankets Are A Clever And Cosy Way To Track Climate Change"
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7th, 2019, "Activist crafters at Philly’s new ‘Tempestry’ knitting group are sounding the alarm on global warming"
Natural Resources Defense Council, onEarth magazine, December 19th, 2018, “Trump is trying to pull the wool over our eyes about climate change — these knitters aren’t having it”
Pictured, L-R: Utqiagvik, Alaska, 2010; Deception Pass, WA, 2016; Global New Normal 1895 (bottom) to 2018 (top); Death Valley, California, 1958.
For multiple reasons, creating our own US-sourced Tempestry yarn will bring our work more in line with the Tempestry ethos. These include using mulesing-free merino wool, supporting good domestic jobs (many of them union!), shrinking our carbon footprint, and knowing that we will be able to continue this work for years to come. All of these things resonate deeply with us personally, and with many of the thousands of Tempestry participants.
This is a big endeavor (about $1000 per color, 38 colors in total), and we would be so grateful for your help. If you're interested and able, we hope that you will consider contributing to this effort here, or shoot us an email if you'd prefer to contribute via PayPal, Venmo, or check. If you're unable to donate, please consider sharing this GoFundMe link with your knitting, textile, artist, climate, environmental, friend, and family circles.
No contribution is too big or too small! We've had donations ranging from $5 to $1000 and we are so very grateful for each and every one, especially in these times of financial precariousness for so many of us.
We are pleased to offer a limited run of thank-yous at the following donation levels. We will follow up with you about shipping addresses and customizable pieces. These will have quite a long shipping time, as handknitting is a slow and methodical process. Thank you in advance for your generosity and patience!
$50 - Tempestry Tote
$100 - 1 Mini New Normal Tempestry showing global warming 1969-2019 (7 left)
$200 - Pair of Mini Original Tempestries each showing daily high temperatures for one month for one location (8 left)
$300 - Custom Tempestry knitwear (scarf or shawl from locally hand dyed yarn ) (3 left)
$500 - Full sized New Normal Tempestry (Global, United States, or State) showing warming 1895-2019 (1 left)
Read about the Tempestry Project!
New York Times, February 22, 2020, "Knitters Chronicle Climate Change One Stitch at a Time"
Smithsonian Magazine, February 20, 2020, "How Knitting Enthusiasts Are Using Their Craft to Visualize Climate Change "
Huffington Post, February 13, 2020, "Temperature Blankets Are A Clever And Cosy Way To Track Climate Change"
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7th, 2019, "Activist crafters at Philly’s new ‘Tempestry’ knitting group are sounding the alarm on global warming"
Natural Resources Defense Council, onEarth magazine, December 19th, 2018, “Trump is trying to pull the wool over our eyes about climate change — these knitters aren’t having it”
Pictured, L-R: Utqiagvik, Alaska, 2010; Deception Pass, WA, 2016; Global New Normal 1895 (bottom) to 2018 (top); Death Valley, California, 1958.
Organizer
Emily McNeil
Organizer
Anacortes, WA
