Think big, think outside the box. An alternate way to make your Temperature Blanket Personally, I think the best way to proceed (if I had the time to commit to this project) would be to make 380, 2″ inch squares – either using a simple granny square pattern, or just a plain crocheted square pattern. Since the squares for this temperature baby blanket are all single crochet, I wanted a different texture for the joinings. YAY!!! Arrangement. I used Stylecraft Special DK for my blanket, but you can use any yarn you like. Sep 15, 2017 - Explore allyj62's board "Temperature Blankets & Shawls", followed by 123 people on Pinterest. If you use about eight to ten different colors, you’ll get a beautiful variation throughout the year. It’s done, a year-long project is complete and I am pleased with the results! Granny squares. How to Crochet a Temperature Blanket. I am being all prepared and everything, (2018 is going to be a great year at this rate and it hasn’t even started yet!

I recommend the join as you go method for this blanket. This will result in a gorgeous blanket by the end of the year. If you want to choose your own colors that is fine. So your blanket will have 365 rows. Like an electric blanket you can crochet. You create a temperature blanket by crocheting a row of stitches or a motif each day based on the day’s temperature. But it is simply a way of randomly selecting color variations, whilst working on a continuous annual project. They have a lot of room for various patterns, colors, designs, and interpretation. The basic idea behind a temperature blanket is to knit or crochet a row or two every day for a year choosing a different colour for each day depending on the temperature outside. (source) Where as all last year my friend Jones was working on a blanket made up of small squares. A temperature blanket is a project that’s really easy to customize and therefore really easy to personalize. This was despire having two small boys to run around after. I followed Cheryl Bennett's directions at Crochet365Knittoo to join the 9 temperature spike squares with the continuous flat braid join. Still use... 2. The basic idea is that you knit or crochet one row per day of a blanket in a color that coordinates with the temperature. The Idea; The Square; The Blanket; For You; Man, it’s been a crazy week!

Our pattern for 2019 was a stripy blanket, in Linen stitch using 20 different colours. Most people follow a temperature blanket chart which tells them which colours to use. The border. Depending on the climate where you live, each color will probably correspond to between five and twelve degrees. As you can see, this will be a year-long project. My Temperature Blanket ♥ The Beginning Hello Lovelies, I'm feeling hap,hap,happy today because my cro-jo is back :0) In 2018 I did very little in the way of crochet, I just couldn't seem to get enthused about it at all. (She uses it for a lovely Happily Ever Afghan!) Gauge swatch. Each day crochet a row in the color of the high temperature for that day. 4. Each day you will check your local weather station for both your highest and lowest temperatures of the day.

The first round will be your coolest temperature of the day, the second your highest and the third round will be your joining colour. This will give you 365 rows or motifs (366 on a leap year) if you do a January 1st to December 31st blanket. Schematically the blanket can be drawn out as shown in the image to the right. See more ideas about Temperature blanket, Temperature afghan, Crochet afghan. We are going to be making 3 round granny squares. That seems like a lot, and it is, but keep in mind it’s getting broken down over the whole year. Each row (or round, or individual block, or whatever you’ve chosen) represents the temperature of a day of the year. If you look at my posts from January and February you can see that my first project was individual squares with the temperature in the middle circle and white surrounding the circle to create the square. At its simplest, a temperature blanket is a visual representation of a year’s worth of temperatures. You just allocate which colours you will use for a range of temperatures and crochet 1 row each day corresponding to that days temperature.

This year I will be using only 10 colours, with 1 extra colour for joining. Granny Square Temperature Blanket Pattern Special Squares. Temperature scarf.