2018 Temperature Blanket

Jan 3, 2018
2 min read

I've been wanting to make a temperature blanket for 6 or 7 years now, but keep forgetting to start one! By the time I remember, it's usually February or later and I'm just like Meh...I'll do it next year. This year I finally remembered! Only 2 days late to start looking at colors, but that's ok. Yesterday it was 7F, and today it was 5F. Easy enough to catch up. I'm thinking of doing the 24 hour low for the winter temps instead of the daily average, and the 24 hour high temp for summer. That would basically put it at below zero every day right now though, so maybe not.

On to the colors!

As much as I love getting new yarn, I settled for using what I have stashed. What? Actually use my stash? Seriously? Woah.

Here's some of my yarn in my really messy craft room that I can't use because it's overflowing with stuff from all over the rest of the house. I have a lot of Red Heart in here, so I'm gonna use some of that up.

I don't really like the boring "one line per day" blankets, so i'm making a block a day. I want to put the weather in it somehow too. Basically, the temp plus what I see when I wake up. Maybe a grey center for fog, sparkly white for snow, I don't know...stuff like that. I'm just gonna make it up as I go along. As long as all the blocks come out the same size, I'm gonna have fun with it!

So, here's the colors I grabbed to use. I tried to make sure they're all current colors so I can buy more if needed. I have wayyyy too many skeins of older, discontinued Red Heart from the 80's. People are always giving me yarn they find when cleaning out the attic or whatever haha.

And here's how I'll apply them.

I chose the burn your eyeballs out shade of red for over 100 F as kind of a joke. I don't see myself actually using it. This is Maine after all. I'm anticipating a blanket that leans heavily toward the blues with a lovely yellow and orange summer speckled with red.

Yay! time to start crocheting! I might even throw in some knit blocks for the hell of it too! I think I'll keep them on the smallish side, using an F hook instead of my preferred G for this yarn. With 365 blocks, I don't want a GIANT blanket that only fits a big bed! I kind of want something to toss on the back of the couch.

Tonight, I make the first and second blocks....Tomorrow, I'll figure out how to put them all together.

Are you making a temperature blanket? Share pics with me! I'd love to see!