About
Hi! My name is Liz
I hope you will join with me in using the skills that you have to show a blind world the extent of our climate emergency.
My dream is that, in the future, across the western world, whenever someone is intending to buy an energy intensive appliance or vehicle, they see some form of the #Warmingstripes to remind them to reconsider their purchase or, at least, prioritise minimal climate impact.
I've known about increasing carbon levels in the atmosphere since undergraduate studies in the early 1980's but it took An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 to shake me from my complacency.
In 2020 Common Grace, Australia began their Knit for Climate Action project to organise people from across Australia to knit 16 colour climate scarves based on Professor Ed Hawkins Warming Stripes to be gifted to all Australian Federal politicians (see image above). This occurred on #ShowYourStripes day on June 21, 2021. I took part in this project, although, in the end, my local right-wing politician refused to accept the scarf.
Knitting #WarmingStripes for family and friends scarves slowly evolved into my knitting of simpler 6 colour 'footy' climate scarves. The designs then evolved via impressionistic scarves using yarns with a gradient colourway to show the trend, into lacy or textured styles into my current preferred style of 9 colour marled (2 thin strands held together) scarves. At each stage I shared my knitting patterns on Ravelry, hoping that others would use them to spread the message of the #ClimateEmergency in their area.