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How to crochet a temperature blanket in eight easy steps (with pictures) :
Step 1: choose your colors and set the ranges
Step 2: get started crocheting!
Step 3: hmm. This is only a month and it’s pretty long.
Step 4: maybe a double crochet was the wrong stitch for this
Step 5: haha yeah it’s a little big
Step 6: stop looking at the blanket as a whole.
Step 7: keep crocheting. Ignore the fact that you can no longer easily lift the project. Stop taking pictures of your progress entirely. Keep the finished parts folded so you never really see it all at once.
Step 8: finish and gaze upon the titan you have created.
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2023 Temperature Blanket 🌈 Final Product 🌈
Shes finished!! She makes my bed look like it's a twin, it's not. Its a queen. But she's done!! And it's only January 1, 2024!!!
Honestly not to get too poetic or emotional, but this project is such a testimony to survival for me. With as much as I struggled this year with my mental health, it's kind of nice to have this tactile reminder that I made it. Look: all of those hard days are here. They're strung together with all of the good days to make something absolutely beautiful. And besides that? I can't even pick out which ones were the bad days. In the grand scheme of things,, they all come together. And I made it. I made this beautiful thing, I made it through this year. And so did you ❤
With that: Happy New Year! Happy 2024! Take it in your stride, and know that you can do this.
#2023 temperature blanket#temperature blanket#finished project#crochet blanket#crochetblr#crochet#granny square#craftblr
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some closeups of my temp blanket, these color combos are just gorgeous :' )
#2023 temperature blanket#temperature blanket#temp blanket#crochet blanket#crochet#moss stitch#crocheting#fiber art#my art#my crochet
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I was on a long car ride with some coworkers from a different department last week and at some point I mentioned my temperature blanket where I knit a row every day to record the temperature for that day. The guy driving was like “oh that’s kinda weird”
Like buddy THAT’s your bar for weird???? Literally the most normal thing I’m doing right now
#knitting#temperature blanket#and then my other colleague said she saw something similar on Facebook except they were recording some bodily function and it was gross#so I said#oh! the poop blanket!#like it’s a thing everyone knows#which was not what she was talking about and may have weirded out both of them
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BEHOLD! My monstrosity!
The stats:
365 rows
76,650 single crochet stitches
Sooo many fucking hours
God only knows how many yards of yarn (at least 3,000 based on the number of skeins I used up or mostly used up)
All for a temperature blanket for the year 2023, with colors tracking the daily average.
I’m proud of myself for finishing it but I am never making another temperature blanket again lmao.
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Y'all, im so proud of this one. Idc the pics aren't great, the finished item wasn't so perfect either. But I had so much fun making this one. Story of the piece first, then pattern info below
This project has tons of meaning to me n I figured I'd share the story here.
I made this project for a friend who also crafts. We chat regularly about our crafts and she often makes art for me and everyone in my apartment. We have some creative overlap, but not a ton. Historically, I've not been so great at crafting for others and hadn't made anything for her yet.
In any case, we chat with each other about crafts we see that we are excited about or think the other may be excited about. One day when she was over, we were chatting crafts again and she mentioned she was seeing lots of temperature blankets in her feed n wondered if I'd ever thought about making one.
Truth be told, I'd never made one for myself and couldn't see myself wanting to make one. I let her know this as well. Not for any particular reason, just never felt the need to. It was a pretty casual conversation and we moved onto other topics.
Fast forward a bit and we are chatting again and she lets me know her partner had proposed. She said yes and they had set a date for two years in the future for a special date for them.
It clicked maybe a month later that this time frame, their engagement period, would be perfect for a temperature blanket. I had doubts at first if I wanted to make it, but started getting thoughts on how to work it all out. The only thing I had for certain was fall pallet for the colors as it's their favorite season. I talked it over with some other friends who also know her, and after many many many reassurances, I decided to go for it.
Honest, this is the most I'd ever planned for any project. I researched types of temperature blankets, typical temperature ranges for our area, how to divide the time frame and temperature range, I swear, it's a whole spreadsheet with many tabs of research and planning. In the end, I decided on 9 colors with about 7°F increments where each chevron represents the average temperature for one week of their engagement. I also made a knitted scale (not pictured) of the colors in order from coldest to warmest and wrote on the card for the gift how the scale lines up to actual temperatures just so she and her family could look back and get more info from it if they ever wanted.
It was helpful to tell myself during the process that she would never see it coming as I'd previously mentioned I wasn't interested in making one. And if she didn't know I was working on it, I could ditch it at any point if it wasn't turning out.
I managed to keep the whole project a secret as I worked on it. Making sure I got advance warning when she would come over so I could make sure it was hidden away, sometimes even just making decoy projects to keep her off the trail. She would definitely suspect something if I all the sudden stopped talking about crafts. It was honestly incredible as it expanded my ability to work on multiple projects at once, which I was definitely not so comfy with when I first started crafting.
As common for gift projects, there was a clock and oh gosh was it a race! I barely had it blocked before I wanted to give it to her (yeah, I know the deadline was only enforced by me), but I wanted to give it to her as an additional wedding gift. I ended up being able to gift it to her at the rehearsal dinner, so really just in time!
I'm so happy with how it turned out, and had so much fun playing with the process and planning for this project. I definitely learned a lot and would have done a few things different if I could go back, but overall I'm super proud of it 😊
Pattern is Frankie Brown's Ten Stitch Zigzag
#blocking doesnt fix everything#knit#blanket#temperature blanket#engagement#wedding#wedding gift#craftblr#knitblr#knitting#finished piece#finished wip#WIP#fall colors
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A temperature blanket that I made my parents for Christmas. My dad figured out that someone was getting it for Christmas, but neither figured out that it was for the year that they got married and not 2022. Also, you can't see it in the pictures, but I added a silver crochet thread for the kids birthdays, gold for my parents birthdays, and there's a silver and gold row for their anniversary.
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I finished my 2023 temperature blanket! More than 35 skeins of yarn went into this and it is both BIG and HEAVY, with final dimensions of about 80"x120", making it almost twice as long as I am tall lol.
I like using it as a lap blanket.
#2023 temperature blanket#temperature blanket#crochet#fiber arts#my knitting#my crochet#my art#actual gpoy
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Final update! Temperature blanket 2: Electric Boogaloo!
Second half of the year, made of King Cole Big Value Chunky (acrylic yarn). Took over 1 yr to finish knitting. I love it unconditionally.
#knitting#knitblr#temperature blanket#I've never figured out gauge in my life#all blankets are knit on a wing and prayer#what size will it be? whatever size my hubris locks me into
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Can’t believe I finished this in a day. Look how GORGEOUS IT IS!! 💖💖💖
It’s a temperature shawl based on the weekly average high temperature for the year my mom was born. I warped 4 threads for each week. It’s so springy and beautiful 🤩
#weaving#handweaving#rigid heddle loom#rigid heddle weaving#handwoven scarf#handwoven shawl#temperature blanket#temperature shawl#my face
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proper photos!
size: 118 x 84" (300 x 214cm)
weight: 16lb (7.3kg)
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Meant to post pictures of this earlier this week. She’s finally done and she’s a big boy!! (Featuring Princess)
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Hey, maybe this is a longshot but anyone whose knit (or crocheted!) a temperature blanket I need some help/advice?
I'm going to be moving across the country in a few weeks and I really want to knit a temp blanket for my first year in NY.
But.....are you supposed to pick the high or the low temp for the day???? Because in most color charts I've seen those would usually be two different colors of yarn...
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Sky Blanket 2024 - Q1
Hi crafty friends! I am incredibly overdue on sharing an update on my sky blanket for 2024. If you are new to this project, some things to know:
This is my version of the temperature blanket this year - one row a day. Except instead of temperature, I am using "what is the sky doing today?" as my scale. The palette is all blues and greys based on how sunny or cloudy it is, going all the way from turquoise blue for the sunniest of sunnies to a dark grey for thunderstorms.
It's based on the year between two dates, not the start of the year. So my Q1 actually begins mid-October '23 and ends mid-January '24. So I am only a month behind sharing. I blame it on the weaving in of ends.
I am actually staying decently caught up! I don't always do the rows right away, but they are fairly quick to work up so I'm finding I can bring myself to current just within a single Sunday if I need to. The harder part has been making sure I record the weather, and there have been more days than I'd like to admit where I barely had a chance to go outside at all. I've been using timeanddate.com if I need to check dates I might have missed to make my best guess for cloud cover.
In Q1 - 92 days total:
Sunny - 30%, 28 days
Partly Cloudy - 27%, 25 days
Mostly Cloudy - 15%, 14 days
Overcast - 12%, 11 days
Rain - 13%, 12 days
Snow/Ice- 2%, 2 days
I have not yet had a chance to use my granite colorway for thunderstorms. Meanwhile, the cream border will always be around every square. Admittedly in different number so I can get the month to the same consistent 33 rows.
Pattern: Toni Lipsey's/TLYarnCraft's linen square stitch pattern
The Yarn: Stylecraft Special DK
The pattern
The yarn
(yes I still love the colors of the sky... even though it forces me to weave in too many ends to count)
#crochet#gavii makes stuff#skyblanket2024#crocheting#yarn#stylecraft dk#temperature blanket#wip#crochetblr
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MY PLAN BTW. based on the doris daisy hexagon blanket by kerry jayne designs but. make it temperature blanket. will i finish this? who knows. who knows.
(temperatures in black are celsius, grey is fahrenheit)
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instead of a temperature blanket I'm going to make an infinitely more depressing light pollution blanket where the colours are just the colours of the sky out my window at night
#ong why is the sky GREEN#light pollution#this is like my 50th post about light pollution#but ill never stop#pollution#craft#knitting#crochet#temperature blanket
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