I am loom knitting my first temperature blanket and I found your tips very helpful. As someone who is doing it for a part of the world with fewer temperature variations, I chose to change colors every five degrees in order to make the blanket more colorful. Thanks again for your helpful tips!
Look knitting! That is so cool! Do you have to keep your project on the loom for the whole year then or how does that work? And great strategy for the colors, keeps things exciting if you can change colors even when the weather *feels* the same
ah someone else said this too! I think i remember why i didn't do this, which was because I often had to do the same color for like 4 days in a row and so always left a tail just in case? Idk i think at the time it made sense but now I'm thinking it doesn't lolol
Based on my chunky yarn swatch my blanket would have been 10 feet long! I'm using worsted weight yarn for it after returning the bulky yarn, and now it will be about 90 inches long. Next time I will be using DK because it's just so massive lol.
Lollll mine is definitely too long/skinny but it just about works, I wish I had done my foundation chain longer. Even with each row representing two days, these things get long!!!!
It’s definitely not too late! I skipped full months during the process (especially in the summer) and it was a pain to get back on track but I did it! Mid Jan is easy peezy:)
I used the “moss stitch” which I thought worked really well and was fun but still easy to do :). A simple stitch is key so you don’t use toooo much yarn as it’s already a big project
I'm a little scared to start this video as I have just started a temperature blanket (working on it right now) 😂 Lets hope you dont have advise that's absolutely opposite to what I have decided 😜
Okay, so far so good. I'm using all colors of the same brand and type (a baby yarn that I loved the colors of). My color range is very pastel, but still the standard 'rainbow'-ish. But I love the advise that unusual color schemes are 'allowed', rainbow is just not everybodys cup of tea. I found a website that records the actual temperature hourly at a place very close to me, so I take the daily high that this website recorded. That was also a really good resource to find out what range to expect as I could check the daily high/low and average for every day of the last few years. So I know that I don't need several diferent colors for freezing temperatures because I know we will likely only dip below 0C/32F on a few single days and using more than one color would be a waste. Im trying to always crochet my ends into the next row (to avoid needing to weave them in), so far that seems to work pretty well. I'm using a notebook to keep track of which day/row Ive already done, so I hope I wont get lost in case I have to take a break in between for whatever reason.
Haha I was going to say don’t be scared!! But I see you started the vid already :). Baby yarn is a great choice! And I think a pastel rainbow is a hood in between of sticking to a very literal palette but making it more stylish/modern
And could point about weaving into the next row! I think I did that when I knew (or predicted) that the the next day would be the same color, but would’ve made sense to do it always!
Each row corresponds to a temperature. Usually people will do the average temperature or the high for that day, with each row being a day (I’ve also seen where people will do blocks or granny squares for the week as opposed to one single row each day). Each temperature block will have a color designation (example: 10-15* F is purple, 15-20* is dark blue, 20-25* is medium blue). So for example, Jan 1 average temp of 13*, so you crochet one row of purple. Jan 2 is 17*, so you crochet one row of dark blue. And then you just keep going. When I have more free time, I’m going to do one for the first year of each of my kiddos’ lives.
yes the other reply got it right! I definitely should've explained it in the video. to add to the other response, I've also seen people make 'temperature' blankets that track their emotions throughout the year, which is a sweet idea.
