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Post by craftedbys on Feb 12, 2023 19:20:32 GMT
I think I remember a Pea or two talking about temperature blankets or quilts.
I was wondering what color scheme did you use? Did you go with the standard ROYGBIV or did you come up with your own palette?
I want to do one for 2023 and looking back at the previous year most of the highs and lows fall into the 60s/70s/low 80s. But I don't want yellow or green to be the primary colors.
I want to start with a dark burgundy for 100+ and then move to reds and pinks and maybe corals then to blues and have a dark purple for below 20.
Would it look weird to specifically leave out yellow/green/teal?
Or could I include those colors for like 1 or 2 temp ranges?
I am going to use half hexagons for the low and high for each day, and I want to add a small stripe between for things like snow, ice, record temp.
Any other advice or suggestions would be most welcome?
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Post by milocat on Feb 12, 2023 19:35:29 GMT
Watch Toni, from TL Yarn Crafts, video on how she came up with her temperature ranges and colours. She crochets but it would be helpful for a quilter also. She has done them for quite a few years and has tweaked her ranges to be able to include all the colours a bit more, so not just a different colour for every 10 degrees, some have larger ir smaller ranges. You can do the high or low or average of each day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9vCgbgHzqn4Archivr blig posts about her temperature blankets over the years tlycblog.com/tag/temperature-blanket/We have temperature ranges from -40 to +30C/86C so it's never really appealed to me. Personally I would never do rainbow. The colours Toni used last year blended so beautifully, I would choose something like that. |
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Post by Gennifer on Feb 12, 2023 21:05:04 GMT
My grandma made one for me in 2017, and then did a scarf for me in 2018 with the leftover yarn.. She passed in 2020, and I treasure them.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 12, 2023 21:19:35 GMT
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 12, 2023 22:12:04 GMT
I remember seeing them from years ago, when someone first posted them here. I think it's a really fun idea! I made up a mock blanket in Excel to see what it would look like using the temperatures from the previous year, but we don't have the temperature range here to make it look good. Even making up my own range, I was still not going to get many lines of the highest and lowest colour. It ended being mainly two colours - and yeah, like you mentioned, I think it was yellow and green.
I like your idea of changing the colours around to suit what colours you like, so you don't end up with colour scheme you're not happy with. When I was going to do one, I played around with the temperature ranges (so a 10 degree range for the highest and lowest temps, and only 3 or 4 degree range for the in between colours). But I like your idea of completely changing the sequence of colours more.
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Post by dewryce on Feb 12, 2023 22:18:14 GMT
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Post by seaexplore on Feb 13, 2023 2:24:29 GMT
No color “rules” - use the colors you like! I did one for my daughters birth year and have the fabric for my sons purchased but not yet started. I made a conditional formatted google sheet that showed my colors based on my input temp. Gave me a really good idea of my colors. I did and am doing traditional-ish rainbow with deep red/maroon hottest with light lavender/gray for coldest. I used HST for my DD’s and will do the same for DS. The back is solid squares and pinwheels with fabric from the front. The binding is also the fabric from the front in temp order. A friend embroidered the date/month/year for the start of each month and did my temp scale and avg high/low.     |
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Post by tracylynn on Feb 13, 2023 3:27:32 GMT
I did a cross stitch Temperature Tree in 2020. I had about 20-22m5 colors Insed in 3 degree increments. http://instagram.com/p/CJgrYj_HsNE It's the 3rd picture in that IG post. It was super fun! The quilts look gorgeous! |
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Post by zuke on Feb 13, 2023 14:00:20 GMT
If you're like me and didn't have a clue what a temperature quilt was, here ya go! I thought somehow you used color changing fabric to make quilts! Is there such a thing?
The idea behind temperature quilts is pretty straightforward. Basically, you'll be making a small, two-color quilt block every day in the coming year. One of the colors will represent the high temperature for a particular day, the other color will represent the day's low temperature.
After learning what they are, I think it's a cool idea!
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 13, 2023 15:04:03 GMT
I've never made one but I love looking at them and I've seen every colour combo. Are you on Pinterest? Search for temperature quilt or temperature blanket. There's one on there that is just red/pink/purple/blue. Another uses the jade shades of green. Another uses shades of grey and orange. You can literally design your own. You know the rule though - you have to come back and show us!  |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Feb 13, 2023 15:11:12 GMT
I did a crochet one. I really wish I had pictures but it was years ago. I did the full rainbow and I did mine in 10 degree (F) segments. I used a worsted weight yarn and a 6mm hook. A single crochet stitch row made the blanket huge! So I only did 6 months, Jan 1 - Jun 30. Now, I live in Michigan, so my blanket was pretty evenly spread. We have huge swings in temperature between January and the end of June. I really liked how mine came out and it made a nice gift for Jeremy's dad.
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Post by akkaren on Feb 13, 2023 20:43:31 GMT
I wanted to crochet one this year but measuring one week and multiplying 52 told me it would be huge! So I stopped. I'm thinking I could do a scarf instead.
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Post by mich5481 on Feb 13, 2023 22:33:03 GMT
I did a cross stitch Temperature Tree in 2020. I had about 20-22m5 colors Insed in 3 degree increments. http://instagr.am/p/CJgrYj_HsNE It's the 3rd picture in that IG post. It was super fun! The quilts look gorgeous! I have that same design for the tree! I started stitching the tree, but I haven't done any of the leaves yet. |
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Post by mom2jnk on Feb 13, 2023 23:13:02 GMT
I think I remember a Pea or two talking about temperature blankets or quilts. I was wondering what color scheme did you use? Did you go with the standard ROYGBIV or did you come up with your own palette? I want to do one for 2023 and looking back at the previous year most of the highs and lows fall into the 60s/70s/low 80s. But I don't want yellow or green to be the primary colors. I want to start with a dark burgundy for 100+ and then move to reds and pinks and maybe corals then to blues and have a dark purple for below 20. Would it look weird to specifically leave out yellow/green/teal? Or could I include those colors for like 1 or 2 temp ranges? I am going to use half hexagons for the low and high for each day, and I want to add a small stripe between for things like snow, ice, record temp. Any other advice or suggestions would be most welcome? I'm doing one this year! I followed along with Modern Daily Knitting's coverage of them last year and made the plunge this year. I am having so much fun with it! I am knitting with Rowan's Felted Tweed yarn as many others have and using a modified rainbow color scheme. I wanted more "natural" shades so I did not include any pinks or purples in my rainbow. I have sixteen different colors, each with a four or five degree temperature range. My shades go from grey/ice blue for freezing temps and below thru dark blue into teals into a couple greens and a yellow, then a couple oranges and four shades of red into dark burgundy for high temps above 95 degrees Celsius. I use the Weather Underground website to record the high temperature for each day and check my color chart. Each day I knit two rows (back and forth) of 365 knit stitches. My blanket will be about 55" x 75" if all goes to plan. You can totally do whatever colors you want, although I have found that I really like the occasional pop of yellow/green that occurred when we had a freak warm spell in January. It broke things up a bit. Here are a couple of links to Modern Daily Knitting blog posts about Temperature Blankets: Modern Daily Knitting Temperature Blanket Season ChangeModern Daily Knitting more Temperature Blanket stuffAnd this website is fabulous for planning: Weather History Visualization for Crochet and Knitting Projects
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Post by waffles on Feb 14, 2023 1:01:14 GMT
Love the tree!
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Post by styxgirl on Feb 14, 2023 1:14:07 GMT
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 14, 2023 1:29:10 GMT
My oldest crochets and did a simple one last year with stripes. They were in NY for the fall/winter/spring and Seattle for the summer, so it's mostly cooler temps  . I think it came out awesomely -- wish I had a picture. |
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. I think it came out awesomely -- wish I had a picture.