I did a temp blanket in 2017. I had a different color for about every 10 degrees, ranging from cool greys at 0-10 to red at 100+. The problem was I live in Birmingham,AL so most of my blanket ended up being cool green next to warm gold. I had hoped for more of a rainbow. If I decide to do another one I would use more colors with a 5 degree change instead of 10. The more colorful the better!
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I think I’m going to decide on my colors as I go. My yarn for the cold temps arrived today so I can get started. So far, two colors. I’m wanting to wait to work on it after I get a week’s worth of temps. Then I’ll just create the preview from the website and save that to work from. Last time I created a spreadsheet and a bunch of formulas so that when I put the temperatures in the cells they changed colors.
This time, I’m taking the easier route.
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Oh, thanks for the idea! I like it - for me it would be 1950 and 2020 - definitely will be a contrast. Still mulling over which format - garter ridges, log cabin, etc.
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My stash expanding yarn was shipped yesterday. Hope to get it so I can cast on this weekend. After dithering back and forth, I think I am going to do the Baby Blanket concept with a black border. I’m using Felted tweed and will marl high and low temps for the day for each row. I’m going to flip flop the pattern after every month. At least that is the plan for now 
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Hi 
I am finally sorted out here in the woods. For my blanket at least. Using Berroco Vintage DK, it’s washable! 29 colors for a temperature range of <-5 to 105+ F. I am starting and finishing with a black band and will add a black border to frame it. Black is also the color for <-5 so it shouldn’t show up very often. Casting on with a six, 290 stitches for 58 inches wide.
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I did read all the way to the bottom. Rarely do I leave anything unfinished.
Now, if you believe that one…After all, I am a knitter. Ahahahhahhahaha
UFOs here and there.
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So, this morning I checked the website that gives the temperature histories and found that it told me that yesterday’s average was the same as the 4th. No, it wasn’t. Apparently it was too early in the morning for me to request the average for the 5th. I think patience will be the most important part here so that I don’t end up with days with wrong colors. Yesterday was definitely not in the 30s.
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Dear Holly – This IS a great idea, but I’ve left my tiny squares behind. I’m going to do semi-long stripey rows and add the ichord at the end of each month. At least that’s today’s idea. I keep making it more simple. I haven’t started – waiting for my yarn – guess I could switch around some colors but I put so much thought into that I’m just gonna wait.
Meanwhile I have been making Woodland slippers out of my failed attempt at the fair isle cardigan from the MJ Field Guide. My colors were so awful. I was embarrassed. What I’ve learned is to wait a bit and see what others put together – so many truly beautiful combos – that way I can see what it is I like.Unraveling the sweater has been kinda fun – except for the knit 2 tog – that takes time and patience to unwind.
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I was just so thrilled to share what I learned :), hopefully someone will find it useful!
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The year I knitted my only other Temp project was one of those Michigan years when we went from sorta cold to really hot, hot, really hot, sorta warm then back to just sorta cold.
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Hey everybody, Janieknits just blew my mind with this comment on today’s post:
I’m thinking of doing a temperature blanket in the “All Coins” version of the throw, one segment per week with the low as the background and high as the dots.
She’s talking about Stranded Stripe Throw from Field Guide No. 13: Master Class, using just the coins motif. I did that motif for a full blanket, in 18 or 19 colors, and it was the joy of my life to knit that thing. Each row of coins represents a week, which will make a very long blanket…for reference, mine would have been 37 rows of coins, I believe. I’ll dig up some links later when I’m not facing a deadline but this idea really has legs for so many reasons: you get a lot fewer ends, for one thing! And a great picture of the year’s temperature shifts. Knitters are so clever!
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I wanted to make sure that I had representation of all my colors so I went to last year and looked at the range. At my house it went from super low to super high so I started a bit higher than the lowest ones so that I would like have a few rows there and then did the same on the other end. Did that make sense?
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You’re going to love the baby blanket. There’s something really addictive about it.
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I’ve had the same issue. I was looking at today’s page and scrolled down for yesterdays numbers and it was way off. If I go to the history and look at the weekly which lists the days of the week info at the bottom, it was correct. There is no way it was 57 here!
It’s hugely useful! I cut and pasted it.
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What a great idea and what a rockstar! That’s amazing.
I looked at my chart from 2019 which was the year I knitted my first one and on this day that year it was 32° and on January 5th it was 44°. That’s how Michigan rolls.
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This is such an intriguing idea. Please show us a photo of your coins blanket. I think that would help so much when considering this idea for a temperature scarf/blanket/throw. I’ve never done stranded color work but this might be the reason to try! I love showing the low temperature as part of this and the idea that it could run for the week would be simpler than each day. I want to make this filled with some detail yet simple all at the same time-ha!
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In my knitters fantasy reel I’m making one of Jenise Hope’s Persian Dreams blankets–maybe 26 hexagons, each being 2 weeks. I think it would be stunning. I also think I’ll never do it, but dare to dream!!!
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I dug up the old post and wondered what were the final dimensions of your throw and how many rows of coins were in your blanket. Maybe a biweekly temperature check.
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