New Year Sale! 1974 Original Tempestry KNIT Kit

***Please note: New Year Sale Tempestry Kits will start shipping in January. Thank you for your patience and support!***

Welcome to our Annual New Year Sale! All 2024 and 1974 kits are 10% off!

Order a 1974 kit for your location of choice and see what the weather was up to 50 years ago.

Order a companion 2024 Original Tempestry Kit for the same location and see what kind of difference half a century made.

“This is mindfulness knitting, environmental knitting — something to think about with each stitch, each row. Thank you.” — K.

PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WHEN PLACING YOUR ORDER:
1. Location / Year (Please note not all locations and years have full data. We will follow up with you if we have trouble filling your exact request.)
2. Fahrenheit or Celsius (we will assume Fahrenheit unless otherwise noted)
3. Email address to which we can send a digital worksheet, if desired.

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ALL KITS INCLUDE:

—One organza gift bag, 12”x14”
—Individually-wound balls of yarn calculated to match the number of days in each temperature range for your selected year/location
—One color card
—One project label
—One Tempestry project pattern/guidelines
—One Tempestry worksheet (this includes the daily high temperature data for the year and location of your choosing, the corresponding color for each day’s temperature, a progress column, and the weather station from which we retrieved your data)

OPTIONAL ADD-ONS:
—COMMEMORATIVE BEADS: 25 size-5 triangular silver-foil-lined glass beads to commemorate a specific day, to be placed on every other stitch of the day in question (with a few to spare just in case!), with optional 1.00mm crochet hook for beading.
—PRECIPITATION BEADS: get extra data-geeky by adding precipitation beads to your Original Tempestry, with optional 1.00mm crochet hook for beading.
—MAKE IT DELUXE: include wood knitting needles, Size US 7 (for garter stitch version) or US 10 (for linen stitch version); one Original Needle Wrangler; pair of tapestry needles (our favorite kind!) for weaving in ends.

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Original Tempestries are a visual embodiment of a year’s worth of daily high temperatures, January at the bottom and December at the top. A finished Original Tempestry will measure about 10-12” wide and about 4’ long. The size will vary depending on whether the piece is knitted in the linen stitch or the garter stitch, either of which are possible with this kit, as well as on the gauge of the knitter (though gauge is not important).

A single Original Tempestry makes for a beautiful personalized wall hanging, perfect for commemorating a particular year — perhaps of a birth, a graduation, or a wedding, etc. Multiple Original Tempestries together can create a life tapestry of events and places.

We of course used an old-fashioned metal knitting needle to hang ours, but a simple wooden dowel or driftwood or lots of other things would work just as well.

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All our work is done in a smoke-free but cat-friendly home. While this particular cat is not prone to playing with yarn, her hair (as any pet owner knows) does occasionally stray.