Temperature Blanket – Part 1
Have you ever created a temperature blacknet? I haven’t and that’s going to be this years big project. I am excited, as I think it will be the perfect way to unwind and destress after running the kids around and working each day.
I started by figuring out the time period (January through December), and that it would be two rows for each day. The temperature ranges here for the daily high can range from -20 to 100 degrees C. So doing narrow ranges really wasn’t an option unless I wanted 100 different colors. I went with the following colors/temperatures.
Zero and Below – Dark Blue
1-10 Degrees – Medium Blue
11-19 Degrees – LIght Blue
20-29 Degrees – LIght Purple
30-39 Degrees – Dark Purple
40-49 Degrees – Dark Green
50-59 Degrees – Medium Green
60-69 Degrees – Light Green
70-79 Degrees – Ivory
80-89 Degrees – Light Grey
90 and Above – Dark Grey
Once you select the yarn and the ranges. The next step is to decide if you are going to use historical data (ie do one for last year) or do it in real time. I decided to do this in real time. I have been tracking the temperatures in a small notebook, and knitting each day or sometimes waiting to see if I can knit up a block of days at a time.
