I’m making a temperature snake with my grandson, started on his 10th birthday. He looks up the temperature for each day and records it and the corresponding color, and I’m crocheting the snake. (We’re still working on him learning how to crochet.) We’ve even added the temperatures of the places where he stayed on vacation this summer (with rounds of a neutral color to indicate the days when he was away). It’s been a great activity to do together, talking about the weather and the changes as we go through the weeks. 🦋
so sweet❤ I've never heard of a temperature snake but the idea of creating other temp inspired projects other than blankets sound soo cool and creative. I'm sure your grandchild will cherish these moments❤
@@luvrbae. I’m about to make a temperature snake for my grandson, too. He turns 9 in October and loves snakes! I’m planning on doing his birth year. Any advice would be appreciated!
This year I'm doing a blanket that tracks all of my symptoms! I'm chronically ill so it's fascinating seeing a physical representation of how my year has been. It makes me feel good to see decreases in things like bad mental health days and increases in things like good days :)
I'm doing a D&D Blanket. Instead of tracking temps, I'm tracking a d20 roll every time I play D&D in 2024. I'm in 5 different games, some weekly and some biweekly, so it should work out to around 200 rows total. I'm making a Moss stitch throw/ small afghan size with this. If someone wanted to do this but doesn't play in nearly as many games, try taller stitches, or multiple rows per dice roll.
Omg, i would love to make one of these's for my daughter, would you please explain a bit more on what you mean and how to do it, i don't do d'n'd myself but i know little bits lol thank you in advance 🙏
I'm doing a hockey season blanket for my favorite NHL team! I've chosen 4 colors for the outcomes of a game! One color for home wins, one for home losses, one for away wins, and one for away losses! I'm pretty excited about it 😊
@heyhey_melissacrochets definitely rows! I think you're right about the squares. I've also determined to use 3 rows for each color. If you know how many rows it'll take to make a blanket with the yarn you're using, take that many rows and divide it by 82. So, the blanket I'll be making is going to 246 rows. I hope that makes sense!
I plan to do my blanket in 2025 but I’m going to do my mood/health. I’m taking a sabbatical and improving everything mental health. I’m so excited and thank you Toni because I didn’t know about Temperature Blankets before I found your channel a few months ago. 💕
My grandma taught me how to do the basic stitches when I was six or so, and she taught me to push my loops back from the head of the hook. Thank you so much for being here to give me refreshers, teach me new crochet techniques, but most of all... Thank you for making learning from scratch accessible to so many people. Crafts are meant to be shared. 💚
I will be making temp blankets for my family for the year they we born. This has been percolating in my mind for a while. Likely I will use different pallets for each person’s favorite colors. Excited to begin!
My husband and I love looking at the stars and the moon. I decided to make him a lunar phase blanket. Not sure how this will go but it sounds really cool.
Pepper is the cutest! He looks SO much like my dog, Baby, who I lost back in 2011. Seeing him alive and well is like seeing her again, so thankyou for that. Much love!
Im personally making a gaming blanket! as a streamer im tying colours to games etc and im tracking what play throughout the year, I hope to continue this lil tradition its so fun to tie some memories with friends into my crochet hobby!!!
Great idea! I'm trying to increase my chess score and actually the site has a graph for each week for a year! And I've had/having my ups and downs. ❤ your idea, thanks so much for sharing.
I liked the idea of temperature projects, but thought it would be a little one note living in Arizona. Love those alternatives! Also made me laugh a little at 83° - I haven't seen it that cool in months and I sure miss it
My current temperature blanket project is a graduation gift for myself! I'm doing a simple Tunisian stitch, and each row represents the same day in my freshman year and senior year. The forward pass is the color from my freshman year and the return pass is from my senior year. While there are so many ends to weave in (I might end up making tassels so I don't have to weave in ends 😂) it's turning out absolutely gorgeous and I cannot wait for it to be done!
This is my favorite blanket. I am love the size and how quickly the squares stitch up when I’m behind. I have been waiting about Two weeks into the month to start because the beginning rows of the month are minimal. Thank for your channel. It is the best for everything crochet especially temp blankets. Love you!
After years of not really understanding the appeal, because I already have a ton of blankets. I finally found a reason when I got married. If documenting that first year to our first anniversary wasn't going to do it, nothing would. Now I've caught the bug. Thankfully there are sibs and friends are having kids whose first years are getting captured in a blanket I hope will last them a long time. This will be my new go to baby blanket project. Even though I can't see them often, I can still send care their ways.
I haven’t made blankets from them, but I have been tracking the high temps for my area for a couple of years now. Eventually I will get around to making a temperature blanket for myself. I am currently working on one for my sister to celebrate her 40th birthday. I hope to have it finished by Christmas because her 40th birthday was back in March of this year. 😂
I made the linen stitch temperature blanket last year for my first year in my marriage ❤ it was so fun and the blanket turned out so cute 😊 my husband even helped me with it. He learned the linen stitch and crocheted the border. Right now I'm knitting a sweater for him with happy place in salty licorice. It's turning out so good! I'm so happy I found your channel ❤ thank you for all the inspiration
I have never done a temperature blanket and didn't plan on doing one and as you were talking about them and mentioning other people's reasons for making them I am actually considering making one or more for specific years. Like the year my son was born, the year I got married, etc.. but to just do one for a year that does not hold a significant value that does not interest me. The lady who is making one for her grandfather was what did it for me.
I started to make one to track moods a couple years ago, and while I never finished it, it inspired me making a weighted blanket! I quickly realized I was not up for weaving in as many ends as a temperature blanket yields, so I made a waffle blanket instead, but still had a ton of yarn left over. I turned it all into i-cord, and knit the i-cord into a little lap blanket on giant needles. Turns out the lap blanket, while small, weighs over 5 lbs. Sooooooo... I bought 40 more skeins and am now in the process of making a 25 lb weighted blanket for my bed.
I’ve never done a temperature blanket because temperature never really appealed to me, but I’m thinking about doing one of these but instead of temperature tracking my daily steps to go along with some of my fitness goals for the next year.
I’ve actually been tracking the books I’ve read this year via granny squares! It’s been fun to see all of the book cover colors as squares and reminds me how much I enjoyed the stories I read
I love that idea! I've seen more book blankets floating around and it's getting me so hyped to try that one day. What's been your favorite book/square of the year?
Love your beautiful blanket. I’ve never made a temperature blanket but have considered trying. You are an inspiration, keep up the amazing work you do Crafty friend. ❤
Your linen square blanket has inspired me! I am doing one for my daughter's senior year in high school. Mine runs from June 2024 to May 2025. I will give it to her when she graduates so she can take it to college. Hopefully a keepsake for her and a reminder of home. So far it is easy to keep up with and I know I could sit down and do a whole month over a weekend if I get behind. Thanks!
Who's chopping onions in here??!! This is such a sweet idea!! Then she'll have something made just for her, and you'll be sending a bit of your love to keep her warm while she's away. Such a sweet mama xoxo
I just recently found your channel and recently got back to crochet. I feel like you're my crafting bestie already. And not like I need another project but I LOVE this idea. Off to the yarn store!😂
I’ve done several temp blankets. My fav was the one I did for my daughter who was born in ‘79. I used the temps for the year she was born in the city she was born. I used a variety of her fav colors. I gave it to her for her birthday. She loved it. I used 4 panels, each one with 3 months. It was gorgeous. I made 2 in 2020 since I had so much time. One was high temps and one was average temps. Those were both C2C with I think 20 clusters a day. They turned out nice too.
Was so glad to see you on the Makers for Kamala call tody! I learned Tunisian crochet because of your wonderful videos. When I first learned using a different video, I didn't like it. But then I discovered your videos -- you are such a great teacher! And also your videos about using the right kind of hook (metal, swivel) made a huge difference. I ended up buying that much-less-expensive set from Ali Express that you reviewed, and they're amazingly nice to use.
So glad you could join the live for Makers for Kamala!! They assembled an amazing collection of makers, entertainers, and politicians to help mobilize this community xoxo
Hi Toni, you inspired me to start my temperature blanket. It took me a while to narrow down my colors, but I finally did. and I love the way it looks. I am several months behind but I do keep up with the temperatures and colors on one of those mini calendars. Thanks for the inspiration.
I discovered temperature blankets on your youtube channel in the summer of 2022. I was so excited I decided to do a blanket for our 15th year of marriage. So I started on September 28, 2022 and ended September 27, 2023. I followed your lead and did the tunisian crochet pattern. As soon as I finished I started working on a colorway for my next temperature blanket for 2024. I couldn't decide on what pattern to do next so I showed my hubby what you have done and he chose the granny squares. I am currently starting to think about my next blanket. I am not sure if I will do the 2025 year or go back and make one for the year my son was born, 2009, and give it to him. He does love blankets. They are becoming a comfort project for me also. It makes me smile and happy when I work on my temperature blanket.
it would be fun to make a high temp blanket and a low temp blanket for the same year! or even do two rounds for each day; high temp and low temp. but it would be double the work.. maybe worth it though.
I’ve seen some done in squares, with half each round being the high temp and the other half the low. They look kind of like two-triangle quilt squares.
While I love when other people do temperature blankets, I know with how I work in crafts, it would turn into another forever WIP. However, I am thinking of doing a quilt where there would be a square to represent a week. Whether that would be a leaf block to represent the start of fall or a cake block to represent my birthday. It acts as a journal but also it would be for me, a place to learn foundation paper piecing.
I am behind in watching your videos and once again I have had my interest piqued to make a temperature blanket and I want to thank you for some of your suggestions about maybe not using the weather but perhaps moods, sports team etc. I am inspired. 🙂
I really want to do two temperature blankets in a year. I just moved from south texas to connecticut. I knew my range before was 32-105 F but now I'm in a whole other climate! It would be so cool to make two blankets using one large scale to track my new home and my hometown and watch them come out completely different!
I made temperature placemats for 2023, and that turned out great. I made a table runner a few years ago (I do have a very large table so not sure this would work for a normal table) and I've also done a round blanket that I liked. So there are definitely ways to avoid a huge blanket!
I would love to make one of these for my soon-to-be-born granddaughter so I can show her what 2025, her first full year on the planet, looked like. Any idea of when all colors of Happy Place will be back in stock, Toni? Using a yarn called "Happy Place" and having it be natural fibers is exactly the welcome to the world I want to give this sweet little baby girl. 💜
Thank you for inspiring me to get out my own temperature blanket while watching! I’m doing a historical granny square temperature blanket that I started a few years ago, and I’m finally almost done with September! Not having a lot of time to crochet, I really look forward to working on this project. I think I’m really going to finish it this year. 😅
My first two temperature blankets were for my grown kids. I used their favorite shows from when they were little for the color palette and their first year for the dates. I have one last birth year blanket for the baby of the family.
I’ve made 2 temperature blankets. I enjoyed them but I wanted to try something different. This year I’m making a book blanket with a granny square representing each book I’ve read. I’m having so much fun with it!
PLEASE add that temperature blanket website resource to your temperature blanket blog, I just tried it with a planned blanket and the app/website developer DID 👏🏻 THAT 👏🏻 Thats an INSANELY good resource, thank you Toni!!
First of all thank you for your work! its absolutly gorgeus!! I'm making a pregnancy temperature blanket for my besties baby with seed stich in tunisian crochet but each week is a little square and thanks you for your recomendation for the website its amazing and it takes so much work off off my head... 😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩
Hey there, working on a solid granny square blanket myself....inspired by you. Side note...as a dog mom myself....I keep a bag of the paper towels I use (1 time use) to dry my hands ....I take them with me when pooper scooping...inside the biodegradeble baggie before scooping. This takes away the squishiness for me. #stitchon!
Actually making a granny square blanket with happy place, love so much this yarn, waiting for colors that I need👆👆you’re right cats don’t stink as dogs lol😃
I've never made a temperature blanket. I love the commemorative aspect of it, but I don't know how to buy enough yarn in the right colors without way over/under buying. I do love your HappyPlace collection. Right now I'm knitting the anyday sweatshirt by Ysolda Teague in your blueberry marled colorway. I love the stitch definition and how soft it is to work with. Thank you for such a beautiful yarn!❤🧶
I can't understand my fascination with temperature blankets, because I just cant see caring about the temperature for a full year! But when you mentioned customizations, like sports team records (I like football) or steps - I'm trying to be consistent with a weighloss journey - I feel like...maybe there is a blanket for me! I feel like I want something I can just sit and do - I tend to do a lot of amigurumi and I get tired of having to follow a pattern. I just finished my first continuous granny square blanket and it was great to just ...sit and stitch! I think I'll throw the "temperature" restriction out the window and see what I can come up with for myself!
Thank you so much for this! I am doing a mood blanket this year and I am also 2 months behind haha 😅 seeing that you got behind made me feel better, I was like “well if a professional like Toni gets behind, then…I’ll be a bit easier on myself haha”
2024 is my first temperature blanket. It's a beast of a project and I've already learned so much with this first temperature blanket. I have plans for another next year... because I'm with you, it's a comfort of sorts to make something all year long.
honestly, i always thought temperature blankets were boring because i just saw ones that were a plain stripe pattern, which i don't like anyways, and i thought the concept was dull. now that i've seen your squares for this year and how beautiful they are, i've had to reconsider my stance. i now want to try to make one for next year with your pattern! also i think it would be cool to have a yearly record of the climate as it changes.. for better or worse at least we'd get some art out of it lol
My cousin is doing a blanket based on the books she reads throughout the year... she has a color for each genre she reads. I can't commit to a temperature blanket.. but love them for those who can!
I'm making a mood blanket and I'm 6 months behind because moods aren't as stable as temperature and I didn't got enough of some colours, but I also got really sick. So don't feel bad for being 2 months behind 😂 Anyway, I love my blanket and I'm planning to finish it. Next one I need to plan moods better.
I am currently working on a C2C temperature blanket for my MIL for Christmas using her birth year from where she was born. A few years ago I did the same thing for my dad doing each month in a C2C block.
I love the idea and concept of a temperature blanket and I do want to do one in the future. But blankets can be a various tedious project to work on. I’m currently working on a blanket for my son’s dad and when I tell you, I have done two projects that work up quickly and the middle of this because I am tired of working on it. Normally, I carry my crochet everywhere when I go out, but because the blanket has gotten to point where it’s too big to do is that it lives on my bed and I try to work on it every night or at least 2 to 3 times a week
I'm crocheting my very first temperature blanket this year and so far, I love it. The only mistakes I've made so far are that the colors I chose are too similar to each other, and, since I'm in Minnesota, the temperatures for July and August are pretty much the same every day. July is only two colors (peach and light pink) and August is three colors (peach, light pink and dark purple). The dark purple is only because my dog died and I wanted to memorialize her by using a unique color for the day she died. If I make a blanket next year, I think I'll choose more colors (instead of doing one color for every 10 degrees, I'll do a different color for every 5 degrees) and I'll use brighter colors that aren't so similar to each other.
Hi Toni, I absolutely love your temperature blankets! Each one has a beauty all its own. However, I see myself making a temperature blanket. I'm more likely to do a scrap blanket first just because I can work with colors as I randomly and blindly pull from my scrap stash. I sort my yarn by brand, weight and fiber as I use them so that the yarn is the same even though the colors differ. For example, any RHSS #4 worsted leftovers I have go in a container together. Then once I have a good amount I'll pull the container and begin stitching. Sometimes solid granny squares sometimes multi colored squares.
At the initial thought of a temperature blanket, I was not interested. But seeing all of the ways you make it fun and creative has really intrigued me! Going to brainstorm for a while… 🎉
I went right to the website and ordered those tags, because I am forgetting which month is which with my squares. Great idea and cute product. Will order more for next year as well.
Oh wow, you figured my name out! Most people just think I smashed random keys on a keyboard to get it :) I've been doing a Temperature Snake this year and it's been a lot of fun. I actually like tracking high temperatures and seeing the random patterns they can make via a spreadsheet. Maybe I'm a bit weird in that regard, but it's a been a lot of fun for me. Next year I'm going to try my hand at a Temperature scarf, but I'm still trying to decide how to lay it out. Whether it will be an infinity scarf or a regular scarf. Will each line be a week or month? That sort of thing. Though I didn't think about doing squares and stitching them together. Hmmm, might have to think about that.
Love the idea of temperature/tracking blankets/projects!! I probably wont make one just cuz I have a hard time with drawn out projects, but I love to see how everyone approaches them differently
Nah. The weather here in the Philippines is mostly in the warm range. I might just get bored of the same color. 😂 But I absolutely love that January square! ❤❤❤ Not only is January my birth month, but I love that cool blue color scheme that turned out. ❤❤❤
This year I decided to do a temperature banner in the linen stitch. The wall hanging was getting so long, that by the end of the first 6 months I switched it up for the rest of the year. I changed to linen stitch squares, and will sew them together for a patch work quilt with the rest of the year instead. So, I'll use the first 6 months for a wall hanging and the 2nd 6 months as a small quilt. I am enjoying being a part of the Hive, and am enrolled in the Crochet Academy, and enjoy wearing my t-shirts - they are so comfy too.
This year I did a blanket for each season. Summer is a granny stitch “monster,” so I ended it with August and am doing a pillow for the last 21 days. Wish I would have woven the ends as I went🥸
I use an excel spreadsheet to record my daily temperatures and use the 'fill' feature to color in the cell with the correct yarn color. Matching the yarn to the cell color is easier than using the names of the colors.
I'm making a book genre granny square blanket with it divided into months. Each row is a book I've finished and the border of each square is the way I read the most books that month (audiobook, ebook, or physical book)
Hi Toni👋🏽🧶 I ❤the temperature projects. They are very unique. I started a blanket so many years ago & NEVER finished 😔 & can't find it now 😕. At that time I called it a crochet collage because of ALL the different colors in it. I have actually started a temp scarf that I have to find 😂& use the websites that U suggested. Thanks so much!
Great video. It was fun to see what you were working on, and to hear all about what you are up to. I really, really like the yellow you added to your square. It’s a perfect shade of yellow. I love it. I love the concept of the temperature blanket, and I do enjoy seeing what everyone does with theirs, moods, etc. However, I know me, and I know I would quit after a couple of months. I would not be able to sustain the interest in energy to work on one project for the entire year. But I do understand why other people enjoy that kind of thing. I have to say I adore your little dog. He is so cute. I lost my two fur babies over his past year, and it has made me so sad. They were with me for very long time and my companion through some very difficult life events. You’re a little guy is just adorable, and I wanted to reach through my iPad and grab him up for a big hug and kiss. That guy has tons of energy. Thanks for sharing your blanket with us. It’s fun to see your enthusiasm for this very personal project. Love and blessings to you, Sandy, from Cincinnati
This blanket is going to look SO good when it's done. I'm loving your color choices. Also, if you're putting the tag on the back of each square, why not put it in the center of the square? That way you don't need to try and line it up. Just a thought 😊
I've never been able to get into temperature blankets, but I am working on a sort of different version of one. I'm using Happy Place Solid & Melange in the same color, but alternating rounds to 31 rounds. I've tried to pick colors to coordinate with each month's birthstone (e.g. Red Delicious for January for Garnet, Aubergine for February for Amethyst, etc). I've found this to be my go-to when I am in between projects or when I just don't feel like working on a current project. ^_^
Not a temp blanket girlie , however I just discovered the genre blanket! It’s the same concept except instead of temps, you choose your colors for several book genres and add rounds or rows for each different genre you read. I’m thinking of basing the number of rounds or rows on the star rating of the book. For example if it’s a 5 star read then I put in 5 rows/rounds of that color. Still figuring it out but I think I will do this in 2025! 🤞🏾
Im doing a Tunisian crochet blanket! Fall colors in bands alternating with a lighter fuzzy yarn ! Just how many rows of each yarn I feel like ! A no brain mindless pick up ! Its going on my queen size bed ! Already about 1/3 done! 🎉
Love your colors! I chose to work the Linen Square, maybe this year I’ll actually finish it. Maybe a temp blanket of a decade? 😂 Ok…I need your keyboard! I keep forgetting to ask about it. Thank you for your shares. 💜🥳
Right?! And I know the people in Texas are rolling their eyes at me, but this Midwest girl LIVES for fall, and this heat is just not doing it for me, lol
@TLYarnCrafts we're twinning! I grew up in Memphis, TN.... but I've always preferred cooler weather of the northern states. I lived in Alaska for just over 5 years and loved it!! 😍 It's the perfect place for all of our crocheted and knitted items too!!
I love the temperature blanket I made! I used the thermal stitch with dk weight yarn and made the rows about 5’ long so that it turned out to be a thick, warm, lap-sized blanket.
@@TLYarnCrafts I was looking for a pattern that had close to 365 rows 😄 I was lucky to find Maz Kwok’s Overcast sweater pattern that had a little bit under that. Just added length to the body and the sleeves because of my long arms 😅
Honey I have been stuck on the month of May due to other things I have been working on. I will get go it eventually, but yeah, i have a loooot of crocheting to catch up on 😅. I'm doing a sunburst granny square for every day 😅
I’m making a temperature snake with my grandson, started on his 10th birthday. He looks up the temperature for each day and records it and the corresponding color, and I’m crocheting the snake. (We’re still working on him learning how to crochet.) We’ve even added the temperatures of the places where he stayed on vacation this summer (with rounds of a neutral color to indicate the days when he was away). It’s been a great activity to do together, talking about the weather and the changes as we go through the weeks. 🦋
This is awesome!
so sweet❤ I've never heard of a temperature snake but the idea of creating other temp inspired projects other than blankets sound soo cool and creative. I'm sure your grandchild will cherish these moments❤
OMG, a snake! Rock on!
@@luvrbae. I’m about to make a temperature snake for my grandson, too. He turns 9 in October and loves snakes! I’m planning on doing his birth year.
Any advice would be appreciated!
@@Carolyn-qd8mj that's awesome! good luck :)
This year I'm doing a blanket that tracks all of my symptoms! I'm chronically ill so it's fascinating seeing a physical representation of how my year has been. It makes me feel good to see decreases in things like bad mental health days and increases in things like good days :)
Could you tell me more about how it works? Thanks
I love this idea!
I'm doing a D&D Blanket. Instead of tracking temps, I'm tracking a d20 roll every time I play D&D in 2024. I'm in 5 different games, some weekly and some biweekly, so it should work out to around 200 rows total. I'm making a Moss stitch throw/ small afghan size with this. If someone wanted to do this but doesn't play in nearly as many games, try taller stitches, or multiple rows per dice roll.
That's so cool! Are you posting updates somewhere? I would love to see!
That’s so unique! I love it
Sounds so cool! Why didn’t I think of this 😂
This is so cool!!!!
Omg, i would love to make one of these's for my daughter, would you please explain a bit more on what you mean and how to do it, i don't do d'n'd myself but i know little bits lol thank you in advance 🙏
I'm doing a hockey season blanket for my favorite NHL team! I've chosen 4 colors for the outcomes of a game! One color for home wins, one for home losses, one for away wins, and one for away losses! I'm pretty excited about it 😊
oooooh!!! love this idea. Might have to try this with my Bruins colours!! Have fun!
are you doing yours in rows or squares? I think squares would be uneven as each month has a different number of games.
@heyhey_melissacrochets definitely rows! I think you're right about the squares. I've also determined to use 3 rows for each color. If you know how many rows it'll take to make a blanket with the yarn you're using, take that many rows and divide it by 82. So, the blanket I'll be making is going to 246 rows. I hope that makes sense!
Thanks. My mama doin' great. We all just got together to celebrate her 90th birthday!
I plan to do my blanket in 2025 but I’m going to do my mood/health. I’m taking a sabbatical and improving everything mental health. I’m so excited and thank you Toni because I didn’t know about Temperature Blankets before I found your channel a few months ago. 💕
Lol I love the second sniff after the "you stink" just to make sure 😂
My grandma taught me how to do the basic stitches when I was six or so, and she taught me to push my loops back from the head of the hook.
Thank you so much for being here to give me refreshers, teach me new crochet techniques, but most of all... Thank you for making learning from scratch accessible to so many people. Crafts are meant to be shared. 💚
I will be making temp blankets for my family for the year they we born. This has been percolating in my mind for a while. Likely I will use different pallets for each person’s favorite colors. Excited to begin!
My husband and I love looking at the stars and the moon. I decided to make him a lunar phase blanket. Not sure how this will go but it sounds really cool.
Its a brilliant concept! i hope it turns out how you planned :-)
Pepper is the cutest! He looks SO much like my dog, Baby, who I lost back in 2011. Seeing him alive and well is like seeing her again, so thankyou for that. Much love!
Im personally making a gaming blanket! as a streamer im tying colours to games etc and im tracking what play throughout the year, I hope to continue this lil tradition its so fun to tie some memories with friends into my crochet hobby!!!
Great idea! I'm trying to increase my chess score and actually the site has a graph for each week for a year! And I've had/having my ups and downs. ❤ your idea, thanks so much for sharing.
I liked the idea of temperature projects, but thought it would be a little one note living in Arizona. Love those alternatives! Also made me laugh a little at 83° - I haven't seen it that cool in months and I sure miss it
My current temperature blanket project is a graduation gift for myself! I'm doing a simple Tunisian stitch, and each row represents the same day in my freshman year and senior year. The forward pass is the color from my freshman year and the return pass is from my senior year. While there are so many ends to weave in (I might end up making tassels so I don't have to weave in ends 😂) it's turning out absolutely gorgeous and I cannot wait for it to be done!
So grateful I found this channel
This is my favorite blanket. I am love the size and how quickly the squares stitch up when I’m behind. I have been waiting about Two weeks into the month to start because the beginning rows of the month are minimal. Thank for your channel. It is the best for everything crochet especially temp blankets. Love you!
After years of not really understanding the appeal, because I already have a ton of blankets. I finally found a reason when I got married. If documenting that first year to our first anniversary wasn't going to do it, nothing would. Now I've caught the bug. Thankfully there are sibs and friends are having kids whose first years are getting captured in a blanket I hope will last them a long time. This will be my new go to baby blanket project. Even though I can't see them often, I can still send care their ways.
I haven’t made blankets from them, but I have been tracking the high temps for my area for a couple of years now. Eventually I will get around to making a temperature blanket for myself. I am currently working on one for my sister to celebrate her 40th birthday. I hope to have it finished by Christmas because her 40th birthday was back in March of this year. 😂
I made the linen stitch temperature blanket last year for my first year in my marriage ❤ it was so fun and the blanket turned out so cute 😊 my husband even helped me with it. He learned the linen stitch and crocheted the border.
Right now I'm knitting a sweater for him with happy place in salty licorice. It's turning out so good!
I'm so happy I found your channel ❤ thank you for all the inspiration
I have never done a temperature blanket and didn't plan on doing one and as you were talking about them and mentioning other people's reasons for making them I am actually considering making one or more for specific years. Like the year my son was born, the year I got married, etc.. but to just do one for a year that does not hold a significant value that does not interest me. The lady who is making one for her grandfather was what did it for me.
I love the temperature blankets that you have made, its given me some new ideas for mine. I have done one for the last 3 years. Thanks for sharing.
I started to make one to track moods a couple years ago, and while I never finished it, it inspired me making a weighted blanket!
I quickly realized I was not up for weaving in as many ends as a temperature blanket yields, so I made a waffle blanket instead, but still had a ton of yarn left over. I turned it all into i-cord, and knit the i-cord into a little lap blanket on giant needles. Turns out the lap blanket, while small, weighs over 5 lbs. Sooooooo... I bought 40 more skeins and am now in the process of making a 25 lb weighted blanket for my bed.
I’ve never done a temperature blanket because temperature never really appealed to me, but I’m thinking about doing one of these but instead of temperature tracking my daily steps to go along with some of my fitness goals for the next year.
I’ve actually been tracking the books I’ve read this year via granny squares! It’s been fun to see all of the book cover colors as squares and reminds me how much I enjoyed the stories I read
I love that idea! I've seen more book blankets floating around and it's getting me so hyped to try that one day. What's been your favorite book/square of the year?
Love your beautiful blanket. I’ve never made a temperature blanket but have considered trying. You are an inspiration, keep up the amazing work you do Crafty friend. ❤
Your linen square blanket has inspired me! I am doing one for my daughter's senior year in high school. Mine runs from June 2024 to May 2025. I will give it to her when she graduates so she can take it to college. Hopefully a keepsake for her and a reminder of home. So far it is easy to keep up with and I know I could sit down and do a whole month over a weekend if I get behind. Thanks!
Who's chopping onions in here??!! This is such a sweet idea!! Then she'll have something made just for her, and you'll be sending a bit of your love to keep her warm while she's away. Such a sweet mama xoxo
I just recently found your channel and recently got back to crochet. I feel like you're my crafting bestie already. And not like I need another project but I LOVE this idea. Off to the yarn store!😂
I’ve done several temp blankets. My fav was the one I did for my daughter who was born in ‘79. I used the temps for the year she was born in the city she was born. I used a variety of her fav colors. I gave it to her for her birthday. She loved it. I used 4 panels, each one with 3 months. It was gorgeous. I made 2 in 2020 since I had so much time. One was high temps and one was average temps. Those were both C2C with I think 20 clusters a day. They turned out nice too.
I do a book blanket and each color is a star rating✨
Was so glad to see you on the Makers for Kamala call tody! I learned Tunisian crochet because of your wonderful videos. When I first learned using a different video, I didn't like it. But then I discovered your videos -- you are such a great teacher! And also your videos about using the right kind of hook (metal, swivel) made a huge difference. I ended up buying that much-less-expensive set from Ali Express that you reviewed, and they're amazingly nice to use.
So glad you could join the live for Makers for Kamala!! They assembled an amazing collection of makers, entertainers, and politicians to help mobilize this community xoxo
Hi Toni, you inspired me to start my temperature blanket. It took me a while to narrow down my colors, but I finally did. and I love the way it looks. I am several months behind but I do keep up with the temperatures and colors on one of those mini calendars. Thanks for the inspiration.
I discovered temperature blankets on your youtube channel in the summer of 2022. I was so excited I decided to do a blanket for our 15th year of marriage. So I started on September 28, 2022 and ended September 27, 2023. I followed your lead and did the tunisian crochet pattern. As soon as I finished I started working on a colorway for my next temperature blanket for 2024. I couldn't decide on what pattern to do next so I showed my hubby what you have done and he chose the granny squares. I am currently starting to think about my next blanket. I am not sure if I will do the 2025 year or go back and make one for the year my son was born, 2009, and give it to him. He does love blankets. They are becoming a comfort project for me also. It makes me smile and happy when I work on my temperature blanket.
it would be fun to make a high temp blanket and a low temp blanket for the same year! or even do two rounds for each day; high temp and low temp. but it would be double the work.. maybe worth it though.
I’ve seen some done in squares, with half each round being the high temp and the other half the low. They look kind of like two-triangle quilt squares.
While I love when other people do temperature blankets, I know with how I work in crafts, it would turn into another forever WIP. However, I am thinking of doing a quilt where there would be a square to represent a week. Whether that would be a leaf block to represent the start of fall or a cake block to represent my birthday. It acts as a journal but also it would be for me, a place to learn foundation paper piecing.
I am behind in watching your videos and once again I have had my interest piqued to make a temperature blanket and I want to thank you for some of your suggestions about maybe not using the weather but perhaps moods, sports team etc. I am inspired.
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I really want to do two temperature blankets in a year. I just moved from south texas to connecticut. I knew my range before was 32-105 F but now I'm in a whole other climate! It would be so cool to make two blankets using one large scale to track my new home and my hometown and watch them come out completely different!
I made temperature placemats for 2023, and that turned out great. I made a table runner a few years ago (I do have a very large table so not sure this would work for a normal table) and I've also done a round blanket that I liked. So there are definitely ways to avoid a huge blanket!
I LOVE the idea of a temperature blanket, but....can't commit. So I'll just enjoy admiring everyone else's.
And I love that you can be honest with yourself about that. It's a huge commitment :-) Glad I can share mine with you!!
Those glasses look fabulous on you! A perfect shape for your face 💜 Apropos of nothing, obviously!
I would love to make one of these for my soon-to-be-born granddaughter so I can show her what 2025, her first full year on the planet, looked like. Any idea of when all colors of Happy Place will be back in stock, Toni? Using a yarn called "Happy Place" and having it be natural fibers is exactly the welcome to the world I want to give this sweet little baby girl. 💜
Love the yellow you added in, Toni! Fits in really well.
I love all the different things people are tracking here in the comments! Book reviews, health, moods, Dungeons and Dragons? Creative!
Thank you for inspiring me to get out my own temperature blanket while watching! I’m doing a historical granny square temperature blanket that I started a few years ago, and I’m finally almost done with September! Not having a lot of time to crochet, I really look forward to working on this project. I think I’m really going to finish it this year. 😅
My first two temperature blankets were for my grown kids. I used their favorite shows from when they were little for the color palette and their first year for the dates. I have one last birth year blanket for the baby of the family.
I've always wanted to make a temperature blanket but give up too quickly. Your video has inspired me to thinking about it again
I’ve made 2 temperature blankets. I enjoyed them but I wanted to try something different. This year I’m making a book blanket with a granny square representing each book I’ve read. I’m having so much fun with it!
PLEASE add that temperature blanket website resource to your temperature blanket blog, I just tried it with a planned blanket and the app/website developer DID 👏🏻 THAT 👏🏻 Thats an INSANELY good resource, thank you Toni!!
Isn't it so helpful??!! I love it.
First of all thank you for your work! its absolutly gorgeus!! I'm making a pregnancy temperature blanket for my besties baby with seed stich in tunisian crochet but each week is a little square and thanks you for your recomendation for the website its amazing and it takes so much work off off my head... 😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩
Hard agree on what you said about picking up cat poop vs dog poop 😂. At least cats cover their poop and you can just scoop it.
Hey there, working on a solid granny square blanket myself....inspired by you. Side note...as a dog mom myself....I keep a bag of the paper towels I use (1 time use) to dry my hands ....I take them with me when pooper scooping...inside the biodegradeble baggie before scooping. This takes away the squishiness for me. #stitchon!
Actually making a granny square blanket with happy place, love so much this yarn, waiting for colors that I need👆👆you’re right cats don’t stink as dogs lol😃
I've never made a temperature blanket. I love the commemorative aspect of it, but I don't know how to buy enough yarn in the right colors without way over/under buying. I do love your HappyPlace collection. Right now I'm knitting the anyday sweatshirt by Ysolda Teague in your blueberry marled colorway. I love the stitch definition and how soft it is to work with. Thank you for such a beautiful yarn!❤🧶
I can't understand my fascination with temperature blankets, because I just cant see caring about the temperature for a full year! But when you mentioned customizations, like sports team records (I like football) or steps - I'm trying to be consistent with a weighloss journey - I feel like...maybe there is a blanket for me! I feel like I want something I can just sit and do - I tend to do a lot of amigurumi and I get tired of having to follow a pattern. I just finished my first continuous granny square blanket and it was great to just ...sit and stitch! I think I'll throw the "temperature" restriction out the window and see what I can come up with for myself!
Thank you so much for this! I am doing a mood blanket this year and I am also 2 months behind haha 😅 seeing that you got behind made me feel better, I was like “well if a professional like Toni gets behind, then…I’ll be a bit easier on myself haha”
lol it's the truth! We can get caught up together :-)
Yes! Love the Harris Walz sign!!
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Just one more reason to love Toni!
2024 is my first temperature blanket. It's a beast of a project and I've already learned so much with this first temperature blanket. I have plans for another next year... because I'm with you, it's a comfort of sorts to make something all year long.
honestly, i always thought temperature blankets were boring because i just saw ones that were a plain stripe pattern, which i don't like anyways, and i thought the concept was dull. now that i've seen your squares for this year and how beautiful they are, i've had to reconsider my stance. i now want to try to make one for next year with your pattern! also i think it would be cool to have a yearly record of the climate as it changes.. for better or worse at least we'd get some art out of it lol
My cousin is doing a blanket based on the books she reads throughout the year... she has a color for each genre she reads. I can't commit to a temperature blanket.. but love them for those who can!
I'm tracking my daily moods and making a year long mood blanket. It's very therapeutic and I'm loving the process.
I adore that! I've heard of this concept and really want to try it. Are you journaling along with this?
@@TLYarnCrafts yes I journal also. I'm using your moss stitch squares as my inspiration! I'm just loving it ❤️ I just love all your work!
I'm making a mood blanket and I'm 6 months behind because moods aren't as stable as temperature and I didn't got enough of some colours, but I also got really sick. So don't feel bad for being 2 months behind 😂 Anyway, I love my blanket and I'm planning to finish it. Next one I need to plan moods better.
Love artists as cool as you and animal lovers too!!!! 😊
I am currently working on a C2C temperature blanket for my MIL for Christmas using her birth year from where she was born. A few years ago I did the same thing for my dad doing each month in a C2C block.
I love the idea and concept of a temperature blanket and I do want to do one in the future. But blankets can be a various tedious project to work on. I’m currently working on a blanket for my son’s dad and when I tell you, I have done two projects that work up quickly and the middle of this because I am tired of working on it. Normally, I carry my crochet everywhere when I go out, but because the blanket has gotten to point where it’s too big to do is that it lives on my bed and I try to work on it every night or at least 2 to 3 times a week
I'm crocheting my very first temperature blanket this year and so far, I love it. The only mistakes I've made so far are that the colors I chose are too similar to each other, and, since I'm in Minnesota, the temperatures for July and August are pretty much the same every day. July is only two colors (peach and light pink) and August is three colors (peach, light pink and dark purple). The dark purple is only because my dog died and I wanted to memorialize her by using a unique color for the day she died. If I make a blanket next year, I think I'll choose more colors (instead of doing one color for every 10 degrees, I'll do a different color for every 5 degrees) and I'll use brighter colors that aren't so similar to each other.
You confirmed at 16:05 why I enjoy your presence.
PS the yellow is very pretty with the reds.
I have only done one and it was 504 small grannies. I finished it on the Dec 31 of that year
Hi Toni,
I absolutely love your temperature blankets! Each one has a beauty all its own. However, I see myself making a temperature blanket. I'm more likely to do a scrap blanket first just because I can work with colors as I randomly and blindly pull from my scrap stash. I sort my yarn by brand, weight and fiber as I use them so that the yarn is the same even though the colors differ. For example, any RHSS #4 worsted leftovers I have go in a container together. Then once I have a good amount I'll pull the container and begin stitching. Sometimes solid granny squares sometimes multi colored squares.
At the initial thought of a temperature blanket, I was not interested. But seeing all of the ways you make it fun and creative has really intrigued me! Going to brainstorm for a while… 🎉
A bit of forethought is what makes these blankets special. I hope you come up with something meaningful to you :-)
Those are beautiful colors! One year, I will do one. Lol, just not this year as I'm making blankets for others.
I went right to the website and ordered those tags, because I am forgetting which month is which with my squares. Great idea and cute product. Will order more for next year as well.
Love that! Thanks for supporting Angie and Britt. They're so talented with the design and production of these tags. Hope you love em :-)
Oh wow, you figured my name out! Most people just think I smashed random keys on a keyboard to get it :)
I've been doing a Temperature Snake this year and it's been a lot of fun. I actually like tracking high temperatures and seeing the random patterns they can make via a spreadsheet. Maybe I'm a bit weird in that regard, but it's a been a lot of fun for me. Next year I'm going to try my hand at a Temperature scarf, but I'm still trying to decide how to lay it out. Whether it will be an infinity scarf or a regular scarf. Will each line be a week or month? That sort of thing. Though I didn't think about doing squares and stitching them together. Hmmm, might have to think about that.
I love tracking the weather too but can understand how it can be boring. I like tracking it year to year to see the changes.
I’ve made a temperature “panel” on a bead loom with seed beads.
This is my first year and I’m doing three colors a day, probably won’t do that again! But my year starts on my birthday which is a fun twist
Love the idea of temperature/tracking blankets/projects!! I probably wont make one just cuz I have a hard time with drawn out projects, but I love to see how everyone approaches them differently
Nah. The weather here in the Philippines is mostly in the warm range. I might just get bored of the same color. 😂 But I absolutely love that January square! ❤❤❤ Not only is January my birth month, but I love that cool blue color scheme that turned out. ❤❤❤
This year I decided to do a temperature banner in the linen stitch. The wall hanging was getting so long, that by the end of the first 6 months I switched it up for the rest of the year. I changed to linen stitch squares, and will sew them together for a patch work quilt with the rest of the year instead. So, I'll use the first 6 months for a wall hanging and the 2nd 6 months as a small quilt. I am enjoying being a part of the Hive, and am enrolled in the Crochet Academy, and enjoy wearing my t-shirts - they are so comfy too.
This year I did a blanket for each season. Summer is a granny stitch “monster,” so I ended it with August and am doing a pillow for the last 21 days. Wish I would have woven the ends as I went🥸
Love your color choices
Thank you! I adore how this is coming together :-)
I use an excel spreadsheet to record my daily temperatures and use the 'fill' feature to color in the cell with the correct yarn color. Matching the yarn to the cell color is easier than using the names of the colors.
I'm making a book genre granny square blanket with it divided into months. Each row is a book I've finished and the border of each square is the way I read the most books that month (audiobook, ebook, or physical book)
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I ❤the temperature projects. They are very unique.
I started a blanket so many years ago & NEVER finished 😔 & can't find it now 😕. At that time I called it a crochet collage because of ALL the different colors in it.
I have actually started a temp scarf that I have to find 😂& use the websites that U suggested. Thanks so much!
Great video. It was fun to see what you were working on, and to hear all about what you are up to. I really, really like the yellow you added to your square. It’s a perfect shade of yellow. I love it.
I love the concept of the temperature blanket, and I do enjoy seeing what everyone does with theirs, moods, etc. However, I know me, and I know I would quit after a couple of months. I would not be able to sustain the interest in energy to work on one project for the entire year. But I do understand why other people enjoy that kind of thing.
I have to say I adore your little dog. He is so cute. I lost my two fur babies over his past year, and it has made me so sad. They were with me for very long time and my companion through some very difficult life events. You’re a little guy is just adorable, and I wanted to reach through my iPad and grab him up for a big hug and kiss. That guy has tons of energy.
Thanks for sharing your blanket with us. It’s fun to see your enthusiasm for this very personal project.
Love and blessings to you, Sandy, from Cincinnati
Creating a blanket with each season as it's own section and then putting them together sounds cool.
This blanket is going to look SO good when it's done. I'm loving your color choices. Also, if you're putting the tag on the back of each square, why not put it in the center of the square? That way you don't need to try and line it up. Just a thought 😊
Stitching a mesh market bag and having some water. Excited to see the finished blanket at this year's end!
I've never been able to get into temperature blankets, but I am working on a sort of different version of one. I'm using Happy Place Solid & Melange in the same color, but alternating rounds to 31 rounds. I've tried to pick colors to coordinate with each month's birthstone (e.g. Red Delicious for January for Garnet, Aubergine for February for Amethyst, etc). I've found this to be my go-to when I am in between projects or when I just don't feel like working on a current project. ^_^
Not a temp blanket girlie , however I just discovered the genre blanket! It’s the same concept except instead of temps, you choose your colors for several book genres and add rounds or rows for each different genre you read. I’m thinking of basing the number of rounds or rows on the star rating of the book. For example if it’s a 5 star read then I put in 5 rows/rounds of that color. Still figuring it out but I think I will do this in 2025! 🤞🏾
Im doing a Tunisian crochet blanket! Fall colors in bands alternating with a lighter fuzzy yarn ! Just how many rows of each yarn I feel like ! A no brain mindless pick up ! Its going on my queen size bed ! Already about 1/3 done! 🎉
Love your colors! I chose to work the Linen Square, maybe this year I’ll actually finish it. Maybe a temp blanket of a decade? 😂 Ok…I need your keyboard! I keep forgetting to ask about it. Thank you for your shares. 💜🥳
I'm with you! 😂 80s is too 🔥!! Ready for fall ❤
Right?! And I know the people in Texas are rolling their eyes at me, but this Midwest girl LIVES for fall, and this heat is just not doing it for me, lol
@TLYarnCrafts we're twinning! I grew up in Memphis, TN.... but I've always preferred cooler weather of the northern states. I lived in Alaska for just over 5 years and loved it!! 😍 It's the perfect place for all of our crocheted and knitted items too!!
I love the temperature blanket I made! I used the thermal stitch with dk weight yarn and made the rows about 5’ long so that it turned out to be a thick, warm, lap-sized blanket.
I saw someone doing a temperature blanket but with the different genres of the books she read. Which is now on my 2025 project plans.
loooove this idea! I want to do a book blanket, too. The ones I've seen look so cool.
I just finished my 2023 temperature project: a sweater/cardigan!
Love that! I want to make a temperature project like that some day. Did you use a particular pattern, or alter a regular sweater pattern?
I’d love to see a picture of it!
@@TLYarnCrafts I was looking for a pattern that had close to 365 rows 😄 I was lucky to find Maz Kwok’s Overcast sweater pattern that had a little bit under that. Just added length to the body and the sleeves because of my long arms 😅
Not crocheting with your video today. Ive been caring for my mum lately and too exhausted to do anything other than watch today! My self care day...
Those yarns are so beautiful, this project looks so joyful!
Honey I'm watching this video at 12:05 a.m. and it's 80* feels like 89* with a humidity of 94%. That's south florida for you.
Honey I have been stuck on the month of May due to other things I have been working on. I will get go it eventually, but yeah, i have a loooot of crocheting to catch up on 😅. I'm doing a sunburst granny square for every day 😅
Hello from Swansea, Illinois.😊😊
I love Happy Place!! I got a few skeins but I still cannot decide what to make because I don’t want to waste it 😹
I’m hoping to finish my 2023 temperature blanket this month, only a month and a half left to crochet!