#temperatureblanket2020

March Temperature Blanket Update!

I've been surprisingly good about keeping up with my temperature blanket so far but that probably won't last long 🤣

I decided to do a row of white between each of the months... That might not have been a smart choice considering some of the lighter colours almost look the same when they're next to each other 😅 Oh well, too late now!

Finally started (and got caught up on)  this year's temperature blanket! I call the colour palette "Tea & Roses" ☕🌹

I decided to make it about 110" wide this time (last year's was just a lapghan) so that it would be big enough to cover our king-sized bed... but I am quickly realising that I SEVERELY underestimated the amount of yarn I needed for a project that size! So I guess I'll be making another large order from LoveCrafts sooner than expected 😅

So lately I’ve been working on a new year long project. I started it on Jan 1 2020. So basically everyday of 2020 I am crocheting a row of the blanket based on the average temperature of the day. I have a color dedicated to each temperature group starting with 40′s - 90′s. I planned out my colors based on the average coldest and hottest temps in my area. 

The blanket is going to end up with 366 rows (since this is a leap year) and I wanted to make sure it wasn’t massively longer then wide so I calculated via a swatch test how long 366 rows will be with different stitches using worsted size 4 yarn and made the starting chain 350 chains coming out to about 8ft long. This will be the length of the blanket. after this is done it with be about 7.5 ft by 8ft. Ive decided to use single crochet with a simple moss stitch (sc, ch 1, skp 1, sc. repeating this in the next rows with the sc in the ch1 space.)

So far this is turning out amazingly and I kinda wanna do something like this again with other projects. I think the idea of not knowing how the colors will turn out till I get to it is kinda fun and tracking the temp changes over the days and how often is shifts. It’s so fun.