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Post by gina on Mar 2, 2025 16:49:53 GMT
I just did a post on IG this morning answering some ?s about it so I'll c&p below. But here are some pics too! Its been fun to work on the last 2 months. I don't think the video will embed but I did post publicly on my FB so if you want to see both months back-to-back I made this quick little 8 second video. I think it will be so fun to create once I get more months complete. www.facebook.com/reel/545911567882634 The start of my year-long temperature blanket project… 🙃🧶🌡️🪡 The most common question: What is a temperature blanket? A temperature blanket is one crocheted/knitted row for every day that coordinates with a color. You can honestly break it up however you want. I personally am doing ten degree increments (see photo with my wooden color chart). I have seen 5 degree increments which would give you more colors to work with. My blanket is a Real Feel blanket because I figured that would get me even more colors (colder here in Winter some days than it actually feels and over 100 some Summer days). I am using a 3.5mm E hook. My starting chain was 330 stitches. This blanket is going to be huge when it’s finished! The width is 68”. I am crocheting it using a moss stitch. Its a great no-thinking stitch meaning I can get a whole row banged it while I watch tv. Its a combo single crochet + chain stitch so I like that its not making the rows as deep as a double crochet would. My yarn varies (I am mixing 2-3 brands); Caron, Red Heart, etc. No, the blanket does not need to be a rainbow. You can use any colors that you like. 🌈 One row takes maybe 12-15 minutes to crochet if I am not distracted. I am frequently distracted. lol 🫣 I don’t crochet a row every day because I get sidetracked doing other things. Some days I sit and catch up on 3-4 days/rows at a time (which I honestly prefer). I get my Real Feel temps on this website and I tend to wait until later in the day because sometimes a temp is recorded differently as the day ends as opposed to when you checked it earlier. www.visualcrossing.com/weather-historyMy Mom taught me to crochet when I was about 8 years old. No, I do not offer lessons. 🤪 If you have any other questions, feel free to ask! |
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Post by lesley on Mar 2, 2025 16:59:09 GMT
This is great! Do you do just one row for each day?
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Post by teddyw on Mar 2, 2025 17:10:36 GMT
I love it.
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Post by milocat on Mar 2, 2025 17:13:00 GMT
Looks great! Where (roughly) do you live? Do you have a wide range of temps? How many colours are you using?
I think moss stitch is the way to go for a temperature blanket. I'm sort of tempted to try TL Yarn Crafts moss stitch squares. One square for each month. We have such a wide range of temperatures here -40 to +30C/86F. I think it would be so neat to see our crazy winter chinook changes from -30C/-22F to the next day being 5C/41F.
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Post by gina on Mar 2, 2025 17:16:59 GMT
This is great! Do you do just one row for each day? Yes its one row a day so the blanket will be 365 rows once complete (right now it is 60. I have to do today's). |
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Post by gina on Mar 2, 2025 17:18:44 GMT
Looks great! Where (roughly) do you live? Do you have a wide range of temps? How many colours are you using? I think moss stitch is the way to go for a temperature blanket. I'm sort of tempted to try TL Yarn Crafts moss stitch squares. One square for each month. We have such a wide range of temperatures here -40 to +30C/86F. I think it would be so neat to see our crazy winter chinook changes from -30C/-22F to the next day being 5C/41F. I am in NY and yes we go from the teens in Winter to over 100F in Summer! I am going to do a green next (60s). I didn't finish my color chart because I wasn't sure if I wanted to do shades of pinks now and have the whole thing blues, pinks and purples or continue on with rainbow. My youngest daughter convinced me to go rainbow. I never did get to use the lightest purple on my chart. Even with real feel (and its BITTER cold out today!), we never had a temp feel under 10 degrees. |
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Post by GiantsFan on Mar 2, 2025 17:21:24 GMT
I love it. I have the fabric and floss to cross stitch a temp tree, but I never started it. I'm in between projects maybe I should start it tonight.
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Post by scrappinmama on Mar 2, 2025 17:23:04 GMT
Wow! It looks great! I love the color choice!
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Post by compeateropeator on Mar 2, 2025 18:35:06 GMT
I love your choices of colors and will be interested in seeing the change in seasons. Thanks for sharing and I hope you will occasionally update your progress. Beautiful job.
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Post by lisae on Mar 2, 2025 18:40:03 GMT
Cool... literally!  |
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Post by nancydrew on Mar 2, 2025 18:41:09 GMT
Beautiful!! I love your color selection! I am a knitter and have planned to knit one for several years. Maybe next year I’ll actually do it…
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Post by ellen on Mar 2, 2025 18:45:53 GMT
That looks great. I like your colors. I gave some serious consideration to making one a few years ago. I knew the starting chain would have to be really long and that I’d have a King size blanket to show for it. I decided to crochet blankets for my nieces and nephews for Xmas instead that year. Moss stitch was a good choice. When I was researching it I saw that so many people did not use a long enough starting chain or used too big of a stitch and ended up with long narrow blankets that were kind of useless. Yours makes me feel like I should do it just once so that I’d have the big blanket and could say that I did it.
This makes me feel sad that Joanns is closing. I can’t imagine doing this without having the option to go there to get more yarn.
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Post by mom on Mar 2, 2025 18:57:21 GMT
I always love these temperature blankets. Random, but growing up, my mom had an afghan in these colors. I always loved it. I had forgotten about it but your blanket reminded me about it.
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Post by bc2ca on Mar 2, 2025 18:59:46 GMT
Love it! Looking forward to seeing it grow through the year.  |
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Post by monklady123 on Mar 2, 2025 19:00:28 GMT
I have always wanted to do one of these. I should do it now because I'd only have two months of 2025 to catch up on. I'd do mine knitted and I'm a pretty fast knitter so I don't think it would take too long. Do you have a set time every day when you check the temperature? Ours can vary so much throughout the day that I think I'd have to pick a consistent time from day to day. eta: never mind, I reread and see that you did say you wait till the end of the day.  at me. |
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Post by malibou on Mar 2, 2025 19:11:47 GMT
I'm loving it so far and can't wait to see it grow.
You will post pictures, perhaps monthly, so we can ooh and aah over it, right?! Please!
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Post by pilcas on Mar 2, 2025 19:12:53 GMT
It’s looking great!
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Post by scrapmaven on Mar 2, 2025 19:42:02 GMT
It's beautiful. I love the colors.
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Post by picotjo on Mar 2, 2025 19:52:33 GMT
Beautiful!!
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Post by jayfab on Mar 2, 2025 21:28:09 GMT
Very nice, I love it!
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Post by valincal on Mar 2, 2025 21:30:52 GMT
So pretty!
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Post by ajsweetpea on Mar 2, 2025 21:38:49 GMT
I love that! Such a fun idea! Would love to see more photos of the blanket as the year progresses and the temperatures change.
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Post by alsomsknit on Mar 2, 2025 21:44:26 GMT
Nice choice of colors.
Please continue to share.
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Post by gina on Mar 3, 2025 1:51:01 GMT
I'm loving it so far and can't wait to see it grow. You will post pictures, perhaps monthly, so we can ooh and aah over it, right?! Please! I will.  I'm sure we'll have some green mixed in there once March is over (I get excited when I get to "unlock" a new color). |
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Post by mollycoddle on Mar 3, 2025 1:57:44 GMT
It will be lovely. I could never do it myself, but I sure like it.
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Post by sueg on Mar 3, 2025 16:06:20 GMT
gina - your blanket looks great so far. You should also come join us in the monthly craft thread and show your progress off there as the year goes on
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Post by peano on Mar 3, 2025 20:52:12 GMT
Beautiful Gina! I can't wait for the weather to warm up!
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 3, 2025 21:29:16 GMT
Oh wow, that's just gorgeous! I look forward to seeing it grow, and I hope you'll keep sharing your progress here. I couldn't use that same scale, because in winter my blanket would be nothing but that top blue! Our winter temps rare get below 12C, which is 53F. |
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Post by cakediva on Mar 3, 2025 21:31:29 GMT
I love this!! Come join us on the monthly craft thread!!! I SO want to do one - but have yarn for several projects already in the queue lol. Maybe next year! I bookmarked a few websites with some colour choices and temp charts - I'm in Canada so Celcius instead |
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Post by Merge on Mar 3, 2025 21:39:34 GMT
Beautiful! I love moss stitch.
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at me.
I'm sure we'll have some green mixed in there once March is over (I get excited when I get to "unlock" a new color). 
