Since the beginning of 2023, we have collectively crocheted, knitted, and woven 372,820 yards of yarn. Way to go, everyone!
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Since our last update in mid-May, we have crocheted, knitted, and woven 385,876 yards of yarn. This is a big improvement from last summer when yarn use slowed down a lot, so this is very exciting!
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Since our last update at the beginning of February, we have crocheted, knitted, and woven 270,975 yards of yarn. Great work, everyone! Let’s try to keep up the pace during the summer. Fiber arts are great projects for long road trips!
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Since our last update at the beginning of October, we have crocheted, knitted, and woven 593,542 yards of yarn, which means we are making it through almost 150,000 yards in a month. That’s excellent!
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We slowed down just a touch this month but still logged 122,223 yards in September! We are deliciously close to our first million, and we have officially exited the Thermosphere! Let’s keep ramping up, logging yardage, inviting friends, and keeping those fingers busy so we can make it out of Earth’s atmosphere.
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Woo! We definitely picked up speed in August and crocheted (and knitted) a whopping 132,513 yards. Great work everyone! Thank you to all our new astronauts who joined this month. We need your rocket fuel (I mean, yarn)!
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Probably because summer is in full swing here, we entered a little bit of a lull both with yardage added and will new people joining. Thank you to those of you who are holding strong. We crocheted about 92,000 yards as a collective this past month, which is still nothing to sneeze at!
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So exciting to see our little group of astronauts growing! We have lots of new people joining us this month as we continue reaching toward the Thermosphere.
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Thank you to everyone who counted up their yardage and posted it in the last week; that made all the difference! We blew our goal of making it to the space station this month out of the water. In May, we logged 96,501 yards as a collective. We are definitely gaining momentum, and we’ll make it to our next milestone before you know it.
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While you might think making yarn would be easy—isn’t it just, like, twisting some threads together?—there are so many steps that go into processing fiber from start to finish, not to mention the care for the animals that many natural fibers come from.
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Good news! If we use as much yarn as we did last month, we’ll make it to the space station! This month, we collectively logged 78,120 yards, and we have lots of new astroknitters and crocheters!
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This month, we collectively logged almost 100,000 yards, which is more than three times our monthly record!
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Our yardage for this month was steady with last month’s amazing push as we logged almost 30,000 yards! That’s over 17 miles in yarn!
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Only 313,555 yards to go until we reach the space station!
With new crocheters and knitters joining daily, we are gathering momentum and rocket fuel as we continue our otherworldly journey. Thank you to everyone who sent in photos! We have made sure to populate them on the webpage and on our Instagram account.
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It’s official! We are now crocheting through the Thermosphere!
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The year is 2020. George Floyd has been murdered, and there are massive protests in Portland where I live, and I have become an outspoken activist and protester for the cause. Other than that, I am stuck inside due to a pandemic, and I source comfort from the blanket my mom made just before my parents divorced. I tell several people that it is the one thing I would save out of a fire, and one day, I realize: I could make one for myself.
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