Temperature Blanket – Part 3

Temperature Blankets

Last year, I created my first temperature blanket. I got the idea from a local yarn store’s monthly newsletter, and it seemed like the perfect project for me to take on.  The idea of documenting the daily high temperature for an entire year was appealing.  The best part is that there is no right or wrong way to do this, and for my personal sanity I kept the pattern simple. I cast on the number of stitches needed to make the blanket the width I wanted, and knit two rows for each day, so that I had the striped look I wanted when the high temperature would change day to day.

The end result was a beautiful blanket that I LOVE.

The basic idea is that you would create temperature ranges, and pick colors to ues for each range. Since Minnesota has a wide range in temperatures, I went with a wide band and each color was 10 degrees give or take, with 90+ and -0 taking on everything below.

Dark Blue Under 10 degrees
Medium Blue 1-9 Degrees
Light Blue 10-19 Degrees
Light Purple 20-29 Degrees
Dark Purple 30-39 Degrees
Dark Green 40-49 Degrees
Medium Green 50-59 Degrees
Light Green 60-69 Degrees
Cream 70-79 Degrees
Light Gray 80-89 Degrees
Dark Gray – 90 Degrees and above

The beauty of a project like this is it can really be anything you want it to be. Want to group everything by month, do one row for each day that you were at that high temperature, and create wide bands? You can. Want to do a scarf instead, go right ahead.

You can document anything, the daily high temp, the daily low temp, if it rained/snowed.  The options are endless, and only limited by how and what you want to document.

I plan to do another blanket. I loved how this one turned out.  Perhaps, this time I will start in June and go through May that way the middle showcases the coldest temperatures.