The idea of a temperature blanket is to knit or crochet a row (or a number of rows) on a blanket each day for a full calendar year. The colors used each day correspond with the temperature outside. The more colours you use to represent temperatures and the more varied the temperatures, the more colourful the blanket.
To be consistent, I chose to use the temperature at noon. I debated whether to use Toronto's temperatures (regardless of where I am) or the temperatures of where I am (so it's a Teena ~ temperature blanket). I decided to make a Teena ~ temperature blanket. In theory, it would have been interesting to see how it turned out as I traveled often for work plus went on vacation during the year but with COVID, I haven't done as much travelling as I usually would in a y
I'm using nine colours from Red Heart Comfort and Bernat Cozy Style yarn.
- Blue: -6C or colder
- Green: -1C to -5C
- Light purple: 0C to 4C
- Teal: 5C to 9C
- Red: 10C to 14C
- Dark purple: 15C to 19C
- Yellow: 20C to 24C
- Orange: 25C and higher
- Grey: first and last rows and divider rows between the months
So far, the warmest temperature (orange) was 32C in Toronto on June 10 and the coldest (blue) was -10C in Toronto (blue) on February 14.
I cast on 200 stitches. The first and last five stitches of each row are seed stitches (knit one, purl one, knit one, purl one, knit one). In between, I'm doing stocking stitch (knitting the odd rows and purling the even rows). I added two rows of seed stitch at the beginning of the blanket to stop it from curling (stocking stitch does that and I hadn't thought of that when I started).
June
Warmest in June: 32C (orange) in Toronto on June 10
Coldest in June: 17C (dark purple) in Toronto on June 12 and 14
May
Coldest in May: 5C (teal) in Toronto on May 8
April
Warmest in April: 15C (dark purple) in Toronto on April 13
Coldest in April: 4C (light purple) in Toronto on April 15, 16 and 21
March
Coldest in March: 0C (light purple) in Toronto on March 22
February
Warmest in February: 9C (teal) in Toronto on February 24
Coldest in February: -10C (blue) in Toronto on February 14
January
Warmest in January: 11C (red) in Toronto on January 11
Coldest in January: -8C (blue) in Montreal on January 21
2 comments:
Hello, looks amazing. I am so interested in doing one for my niece. She will be adopted into the family soon. How do you do your calculations so you know how much yarn in each colour you need to get?
Thanks!
That's a great project! Looks super nice.
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