Yurt Alert

As many of you are aware, this past Saturday was the International Day of Climate Action organized by the group 350.org. I’ve been familiar with the group for a little while as a friend of mine from high school, who lives in San Francisco, is involved as an organizer there and his Facebook keeps me [...]

And yurts too I should say! I feel like there’s a song in there somewhere…anyways, since the launch of this project I’ve been getting sent photos from friends and strangers around the world of awesome sheep and yurts that I wanted to share! The above is from Mt. Vernon — they’re George Washington’s sheep! And [...]

…but keep the old! That was the favorite saying at my elementary school in Back Bay, The Learning Project. From there I went to BB&N and both schools have been so supportive of the yurt I had to post a special thanks! BB&N has posted the Yurt in their Alumni News section — woohoo! Hopefully [...]

I’m so thrilled to report that with everyone’s extreme generosity we’ve already raised over $1,100 for the yurt! This puts us at just over 20% funded on Kickstarter — if we keep this up we’ll be able to raise more than enough and the yurt will be even more awesome than I imagined! So team, [...]

I’ve been getting some requests, especially while at Crafts in Chelsea yesterday for Yurt-related collateral. Sticker, bags, the usual! So I went on Zazzle this morning and have made a few products, bumper stickers and regular stickers so far, so that people can, if they so choose, spread the love of the yurt. I’ve posted [...]

I’m hearing some feedback that people can’t visualize what the yurt will look like when it’s finally complete — totally understandable. When I went to my friend’s new wool importing and knitwear trunk show last Thursday I was expressing this concern to her and she kindly introduced me to her friend Thyra Heder, who is [...]

Another piece of yurt love to share from Molly Made! Molly is a performer with a yarn habit as well and via friends and family she was introduced to the yurt project yesterday — and boy am I glad! Not only has she brought newfound attention to the Yurt Alert but she’s also fun to [...]

Thanks to Christina DesVaux, founder of the coolest new Uruguian knitwear company, Textura for posting about the yurt today! Yay for kickstarting my project — you guys have raised $475 so far!!! More than I ever could have hoped for!

Today the beginnings of the yurt were covered online at the Garden Club of Back Bay’s website! My mom’s the former president of the club and they’ve always been a big supporter of my family and our creative antics – the yurt proves to be no different. Thanks so much, Francine!