I’ve made one of these for each of my grandchildren...based on their first year of life. I always use single crochet stitch and they turn out to be about twin bed size. I’ve got two in the works this year, one in pinks and yellows and one in blues and greens.
I started mine on my wedding day! So i record all the daily highs starting from the day I got married and it'll document our first year! Any big events or life changes (pregnancy/birth, moved, adopted a pet, birthdays, etc) will be stitched with the daily high but with a specific metallic thread! That way it's easily identified!
If you are doing a historic temperature blanket, it's much easier to figure out how much yarn of each color to use. Im doing one from the year I graduated highschool and I had excel make a histogram to figure out how many days would need each color. Excel is designed for this. If you do not know how to do this, you can look up "how to make a histogram in excel" and you can find some tutorials.
I’ve been thinking about making one for over a year now, and with everything that’s happened in 2020 I think I’m gonna need something good to look back on and remember this year 😂
Toni, I know this is the first time seeing this video and it is four years later. As I was watching this I had this idea for a temperature blanket by the month. I pictured your favorite granny square theme with the "magic circle" starting with the color of the gemstone four that month and then heading into the temperatures for that month. So you end up with 12 large granny squares. I have never attempted a temperature blanket, it was just an idea that popped into my head. Then the next one was doing a flower for each month, which is also done in a square pattern. As I am typing this more ideas are popping but I will stop with those two.
I crocheted ( almost finished) a corner to corner blanket in 2019 to commorate my granddaughter's high school graduation. I ran out of a certain yarn in late November and put the project away for December. I have it on my schedule to finish crocheting in February and weave in tails and do a label in March. I used the daily high temps for her home town. I used earth tones and greens. Since I started hers I have been day dreaming about one for her brother next year. Some ideas are: 1. crocheting individual squares or knitting individual diamonds for each day, 2. choosing a different stitch for each temperature range, 3. using a gradient of one color for the temperature ranges. I do know that if I do another one it will not be corner to corner. I got confused at least 3 times and had to rip out stitches and start again to get on pattern. I have really enjoyed your posts on this topic.
Im doing my first blanket this year, and I love using highs. In GA, lows happen early in the morning when I'm not even awake. The high comes at about 3-4pm. To decide, I suggest checking the highs, lows, and averages for about a week and seeing what the day /feels/ like. What temperature is a better representation of your day? When it comes to falling behind, my advice is pick a pattern that makes it easy to catch up. I'm doing the linen granny square pattern this year, and missing a week is totally fine (especially early in the month). It only takes me about 45 minutes to catch up later in the month, which makes it so easy not to panic!
im starting a knitted temperature blanket in January, and this really helped me feel more comfortable. im using the "Comfy Worsted Value Pack - Seaside" from knitpicks, which is really pretty shades of blue and white and grey. its only 5 colors, but its a really nice but cheap cotton yarn in colors that i really like so i think it'll turn out nice
I took the plunge and ordered my yarn yesterday. I started recording the temps yesterday. I am going to make my temperatur blanket for our 15th year of marriage. So that's why my temps started yesterday, the day after our anniversary. Also, I am loosely using your tunisian temperature blanket as my guide. I love the look of it, but I'm not ready to do tunisian crochet, (only been crocheting for a few months and I'm finishing up my CAL from Crochet Academy). So I'm using Caron Simply Soft yarn in rich fall colors. I also ordered a Boye Resin Glitter Ergonomic Crochet hook just for this project. So anyway, I have decided to use the linen stitch instead of the tunisian simple stitch. And I haven't decided if I will do 2 or 3 rows per day since I'm using a worsted weight instead of DK. I hope my yarn gets here soon so I can start!!!!
Thank you Toni. Only 7-9 colours may be challenging as temperatures where I live range from -35C to +40C. That’s a 75 degree range. But I think using the highs or averages may help with this. Time to start planning for a 2022 temperature blanket. I really enjoy your channel and I started following you on IG too.
Watching your temperature blanket videos has inspired me to do a temperature blanket for myself in 2024. Im gonna make a grey, pink, blue, and purple one and I cant wait to order the yarn!
I decided to wait until the end of the year to start mine. I kept track of the highs for each day on an excel spreadsheet, that way I knew how I would need to break down the range, and how much yarn I may need. I live in Ottawa, ON, so our temperatures can range anywhere from -40 to +40c, but 2019 was a lot more temperate. Also, I'm super indecisive about the colours, so there's that!
I recently discovered this site and having been learning some neat things about crochet. I learned to crochet a very long time ago. However, it wasn't till my body betrayed me android I could no longer work. So, I turned back to crochet to entertain myself, and keep my arthritic fingers moving. My family frowns when I purchase yarn, they say I have too much yarn I don't believe they're is such a thing. I did have too much scraps. I'd make them into small balls. It started when my daughter asked for a blanket. Grabbed my bag (a very large bag) of scraps and started. Now I didn't just make rows. I would use the yarn till I ran or and tied on a new color and kept going
You've inspired me to do a linen stitch square temperature blanket for my nephew and his new wife celebrating the first year of their marriage :) I love your videos; you're a great teacher and such a positive and interesting person!
Thank you so much for thoroughly explaining the temperature blanket for me. You are very enjoyable to listen to and understandable! I will be back in 2024, I have way too many WIPs on the hooks 😂😂🫶🏼🙏🌈
You have made me interested in doing a temperature blanket. But I have so many other wips going and projects in my head that this new idea just might have to wait a while. Thanks for uncomplicating the process of a temperature blanket.
Thank you Toni, I am going to make squares for each month using the Tunisian seed stitch. It is a memory blanket too, I have used the temperatures for Malta for last year as I was born in Malta and 60 last year. This was very helpful. Have a beautiful day 😘
Hi Tony I'm from Egypt and I'm sooooo excited to have my own temp. blanket .This month is my birthday month on 30. I'll make it from now .thank you for this great,happy idea and I' ll glad to do it. As I decided how to make it l'll let you know. 🥰🌹
KnitPicks & WeCrochet are currently having a big sale, with all weights of Brava (sport/worsted/chunky) 100% acrylic at $1.19/100g skein. (The Brava 500 skeins are also on sale.) At these prices, it's cheaper than Red Heart Super Saver! When I need to get caught up on my monthly temperature pet blankets, I look up the daily high temperatures for that month on AccuWeather. (If I am caught up, I have MSN News as my home screen, and have 5 day's worth of weather forecast right there.)
I want to make one for each of my kids for the year (and city) they were born in. As long as I'm pulling up the historical data, I'm marking down the year of temperatures that my husband and I were born, too, all in a spreadsheet where I've colour-coded the temperatures so the whole spreadsheet acts like a giant multi-year "blanket", which gives me an idea of what it will look like, how many colours I will need (and how much of each), and I can play with the colour-scheme.
I have done one temp blanket for a previous year so I had all the temps ahead of time. I ended up having most of my color ranges about 7 degrees but one was 5 because here in OK we have A LOT of days in the 80-92 range and I wanted a little more change in color so I did 80-87, 88-92, and 93+. I still had a TON of that middle range but so much better than it could have been. Next time I do one I would like to try highs and lows, maybe in a hex pattern. My first one was C2C highs only. I also might try dk instead of worsted, I have only just begun playing with different weights.
Mine would go from reds through to blue or white and back through to red. I'm in the southern hemisphere so it's the opposite to the ones I've seen on here from the northern Hemisphere. And I go in Celsius so it would be from -5 to about 50 degrees C range ( although I'm on 45 degrees C). Nice idea though and looking forward to starting it.
I'm a year behind the rest of you, and it's into April already. But I think I'll do a baseball blanket (the season started yesterday). It could be just two colors, 160 games (plus playoffs) in the year, and I can do two rows (or one tall row) per game. If my guys (Atlanta Braves) win, I'll use one color, use another color if the other team wins. To add more colors, I could choose a second set and use one set for in-division games, one for out-of-division games. And since I watch a lot of baseball, I can work on rows for the prior game while watching the current game.
Listening to this, i wonder if a blanket or some sort of project made with the average tenperature of each year of my grandpa life could do something interresting 🤔
My best and I are about starting temp blanks for this year on July 1st. He's knitting and I'm crocheting... just need to choose my stitch so I can swatch up some test sizing!
I want to start a crib size blanket or twin, I don’t know which for my granddaughter due next month but have no idea how to start so this did help some. Thank you 🧶❤️
Okay… I’m a beginner to crochet and I’m sure that my stitches will get better and neater in time. Now, I don’t wanna my blanket to look ugly on one end and nice on the other 😂
You have probably advanced since you posted this, but I'd suggest making a temperature, or other kind of scarf and some beanies, etc. because they're great practice and then go for it with the blanket when you're happy with the evenness. *Or* go for it as a beginner and it might be cool to see how much you've grown and learned over a year in the blanket.
Hi I really love your video it s really inspiring and it makes me want to crochet more :). Temperature blankets are such staple piece but do you thinks it would be possible to do a mood blanket ?
I wonder why she doesn’t use the weather service’s site. They actually provide downloadable spreadsheets. You just select your weather station (like, say, KLAX the one at Los Angeles Airport), then your date range and what values you want. They provide not only highs lows averages and precipitation but also wind, humidity, air pressure, visibility etc etc. Some stations have less and some may have more. The biggest thing for me was that I couldn’t find an option to download a list on WU but that was THE option on the Weather service site.
What is a temperature blank? Well I know Thai is a stupid question after seeing this video however I’m not the brightest light in the room lol ! Just new to crocheting ..
So a “ temperature blanket” is a blanket you crochet from the start of the year to the end of the year (depending on when you choose to start your year?) using the temperatures for the year?? I’m lost lol 😂🤷🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤣
I feel so sad that so many of us (self included) feel the need to get rule validation for something with no rules, like "Does it have to be this year?" Like, of course not, it's not an assignment you're being graded on! There are no rules! But so many of us still feel like we need permission??
You can add me to that boat, too. I believe it's because many of us were introduced to this craft with rules/ instructions/ the "right" way to do things. But crochet is an art and we should feel empowered to learn through play and to put our own stamp on things. I hope, through videos like these, I can encourage people to make their own decisions when it comes to their crochet projects.
I’m waiting awhile to start mine. I’ve got a lot going on rn and no extra funds to buy the yarn for it rn. I’ve got mine planned out and keeping track of temp just no yarn to start it lol.
Is there a trick to using the historical section of WeatherUndeeground? Every time I put in my city and click Done, it takes me to the place where you can change the date, but when I click on view, it takes me back to the spot to enter the city again and never shows me the temp
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I’ve made one of these for each of my grandchildren...based on their first year of life. I always use single crochet stitch and they turn out to be about twin bed size. I’ve got two in the works this year, one in pinks and yellows and one in blues and greens.
I'm gonna try and make one for my son!
Would love to see pictures of your projects!
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This is a super helpful comment! Thank you for sharing!
@@VeroLaRemix I’m going to do one for each of my kids and use a special color for their birth dates.
I started mine on my wedding day! So i record all the daily highs starting from the day I got married and it'll document our first year! Any big events or life changes (pregnancy/birth, moved, adopted a pet, birthdays, etc) will be stitched with the daily high but with a specific metallic thread! That way it's easily identified!
If you are doing a historic temperature blanket, it's much easier to figure out how much yarn of each color to use. Im doing one from the year I graduated highschool and I had excel make a histogram to figure out how many days would need each color. Excel is designed for this.
If you do not know how to do this, you can look up "how to make a histogram in excel" and you can find some tutorials.
I didn’t realise how mild our weather was until my middle 4 groups were only a variation of two degrees each.
I’ve been thinking about making one for over a year now, and with everything that’s happened in 2020 I think I’m gonna need something good to look back on and remember this year 😂
Toni, I know this is the first time seeing this video and it is four years later. As I was watching this I had this idea for a temperature blanket by the month. I pictured your favorite granny square theme with the "magic circle" starting with the color of the gemstone four that month and then heading into the temperatures for that month. So you end up with 12 large granny squares. I have never attempted a temperature blanket, it was just an idea that popped into my head. Then the next one was doing a flower for each month, which is also done in a square pattern. As I am typing this more ideas are popping but I will stop with those two.
I crocheted ( almost finished) a corner to corner blanket in 2019 to commorate my granddaughter's high school graduation. I ran out of a certain yarn in late November and put the project away for December. I have it on my schedule to finish crocheting in February and weave in tails and do a label in March. I used the daily high temps for her home town. I used earth tones and greens. Since I started hers I have been day dreaming about one for her brother next year. Some ideas are: 1. crocheting individual squares or knitting individual diamonds for each day, 2. choosing a different stitch for each temperature range, 3. using a gradient of one color for the temperature ranges. I do know that if I do another one it will not be corner to corner. I got confused at least 3 times and had to rip out stitches and start again to get on pattern. I have really enjoyed your posts on this topic.
Im doing my first blanket this year, and I love using highs. In GA, lows happen early in the morning when I'm not even awake. The high comes at about 3-4pm. To decide, I suggest checking the highs, lows, and averages for about a week and seeing what the day /feels/ like. What temperature is a better representation of your day?
When it comes to falling behind, my advice is pick a pattern that makes it easy to catch up. I'm doing the linen granny square pattern this year, and missing a week is totally fine (especially early in the month). It only takes me about 45 minutes to catch up later in the month, which makes it so easy not to panic!
I think I would base mine on my mood temperature 💜
I love that! Some people who do mood trackers in journals, I think as a crocheter, a mood blanket would be awesome!
Oh man. I’m in Canada.. it’s -36 Celsius (-45 with windchill now), but should be -6 in 2 days! I can only imagine what the colors would look like!
im starting a knitted temperature blanket in January, and this really helped me feel more comfortable. im using the "Comfy Worsted Value Pack - Seaside" from knitpicks, which is really pretty shades of blue and white and grey. its only 5 colors, but its a really nice but cheap cotton yarn in colors that i really like so i think it'll turn out nice
I took the plunge and ordered my yarn yesterday. I started recording the temps yesterday. I am going to make my temperatur blanket for our 15th year of marriage. So that's why my temps started yesterday, the day after our anniversary. Also, I am loosely using your tunisian temperature blanket as my guide. I love the look of it, but I'm not ready to do tunisian crochet, (only been crocheting for a few months and I'm finishing up my CAL from Crochet Academy). So I'm using Caron Simply Soft yarn in rich fall colors. I also ordered a Boye Resin Glitter Ergonomic Crochet hook just for this project. So anyway, I have decided to use the linen stitch instead of the tunisian simple stitch. And I haven't decided if I will do 2 or 3 rows per day since I'm using a worsted weight instead of DK. I hope my yarn gets here soon so I can start!!!!
Thanks Toni.
The blanket would be pretty much one colour in Ireland, the whole year we are around 12-15c or 53-60f.
Maybe you could do weather related. Like rainfall and sunshine. I know there's a lot of rain too. Or wind?
Thank you Toni. Only 7-9 colours may be challenging as temperatures where I live range from -35C to +40C. That’s a 75 degree range. But I think using the highs or averages may help with this. Time to start planning for a 2022 temperature blanket.
I really enjoy your channel and I started following you on IG too.
Watching your temperature blanket videos has inspired me to do a temperature blanket for myself in 2024. Im gonna make a grey, pink, blue, and purple one and I cant wait to order the yarn!
Loved your video! Excited to make my first temperature blanket for my parent's 40th anniversary! Doing the year they got married.
I decided to wait until the end of the year to start mine. I kept track of the highs for each day on an excel spreadsheet, that way I knew how I would need to break down the range, and how much yarn I may need. I live in Ottawa, ON, so our temperatures can range anywhere from -40 to +40c, but 2019 was a lot more temperate. Also, I'm super indecisive about the colours, so there's that!
I recently discovered this site and having been learning some neat things about crochet. I learned to crochet a very long time ago. However, it wasn't till my body betrayed me android I could no longer work. So, I turned back to crochet to entertain myself, and keep my arthritic fingers moving. My family frowns when I purchase yarn, they say I have too much yarn I don't believe they're is such a thing. I did have too much scraps. I'd make them into small balls. It started when my daughter asked for a blanket. Grabbed my bag (a very large bag) of scraps and started. Now I didn't just make rows. I would use the yarn till I ran or and tied on a new color and kept going
i’m doing a granite stitch blanket and it’s turning out lovely! i’m getting my mom to do a corner to corner and that one is fantastic also
You've inspired me to do a linen stitch square temperature blanket for my nephew and his new wife celebrating the first year of their marriage :) I love your videos; you're a great teacher and such a positive and interesting person!
Thank you so much for thoroughly explaining the temperature blanket for me. You are very enjoyable to listen to and understandable! I will be back in 2024, I have way too many WIPs on the hooks 😂😂🫶🏼🙏🌈
You have made me interested in doing a temperature blanket. But I have so many other wips going and projects in my head that this new idea just might have to wait a while. Thanks for uncomplicating the process of a temperature blanket.
Thank you Toni, I am going to make squares for each month using the Tunisian seed stitch. It is a memory blanket too, I have used the temperatures for Malta for last year as I was born in Malta and 60 last year. This was very helpful. Have a beautiful day 😘
You so inspired me to do one, I haven't crochet in many many moons and now I'm do a temperature blanket in Tunisian Afghan 🥰..thx sis for the videos🧶
Hi Tony I'm from Egypt and I'm sooooo excited to have my own temp. blanket .This month is my birthday month on 30. I'll make it from now .thank you for this great,happy idea and I' ll glad to do it. As I decided how to make it l'll let you know. 🥰🌹
Thanks Toni, I needed this. I want to do this so bad. I'm going to try this baded on all this information you just gave. I'm motivated.
KnitPicks & WeCrochet are currently having a big sale, with all weights of Brava (sport/worsted/chunky) 100% acrylic at $1.19/100g skein. (The Brava 500 skeins are also on sale.) At these prices, it's cheaper than Red Heart Super Saver!
When I need to get caught up on my monthly temperature pet blankets, I look up the daily high temperatures for that month on AccuWeather. (If I am caught up, I have MSN News as my home screen, and have 5 day's worth of weather forecast right there.)
Okay, you've inspired me to make one for my mom for Christmas. It'll be from the year she was born!
I want to make one for each of my kids for the year (and city) they were born in. As long as I'm pulling up the historical data, I'm marking down the year of temperatures that my husband and I were born, too, all in a spreadsheet where I've colour-coded the temperatures so the whole spreadsheet acts like a giant multi-year "blanket", which gives me an idea of what it will look like, how many colours I will need (and how much of each), and I can play with the colour-scheme.
I have done one temp blanket for a previous year so I had all the temps ahead of time. I ended up having most of my color ranges about 7 degrees but one was 5 because here in OK we have A LOT of days in the 80-92 range and I wanted a little more change in color so I did 80-87, 88-92, and 93+. I still had a TON of that middle range but so much better than it could have been.
Next time I do one I would like to try highs and lows, maybe in a hex pattern. My first one was C2C highs only. I also might try dk instead of worsted, I have only just begun playing with different weights.
Mine would go from reds through to blue or white and back through to red. I'm in the southern hemisphere so it's the opposite to the ones I've seen on here from the northern Hemisphere. And I go in Celsius so it would be from -5 to about 50 degrees C range ( although I'm on 45 degrees C). Nice idea though and looking forward to starting it.
I'm a year behind the rest of you, and it's into April already. But I think I'll do a baseball blanket (the season started yesterday). It could be just two colors, 160 games (plus playoffs) in the year, and I can do two rows (or one tall row) per game. If my guys (Atlanta Braves) win, I'll use one color, use another color if the other team wins. To add more colors, I could choose a second set and use one set for in-division games, one for out-of-division games. And since I watch a lot of baseball, I can work on rows for the prior game while watching the current game.
I appreciate your tips 🥰 Got the idea from a local maker shop, and your tips are the most helpful that I have found so far.
Listening to this, i wonder if a blanket or some sort of project made with the average tenperature of each year of my grandpa life could do something interresting 🤔
I'm doing a hexagon temperature blanket this year! :) One hexagon a day is so doable for me.
Very helpful! Love the tip about designating a hook just for this project. It's June...but I have 6 months to plan for 2021. Thanks!
I have started my 2022 June 2 Temp blanket today(currently working on it)
I'm making my first temp. blanket this year and I'm so excited about it! Thanks for this video, it was very helpful!
My best and I are about starting temp blanks for this year on July 1st. He's knitting and I'm crocheting... just need to choose my stitch so I can swatch up some test sizing!
I want to start a crib size blanket or twin, I don’t know which for my granddaughter due next month but have no idea how to start so this did help some. Thank you 🧶❤️
Thank you so much for your help! I’m going to make one someday, when I finish my current 8 blanket wips. I struggle with choosing the colors.
Okay… I’m a beginner to crochet and I’m sure that my stitches will get better and neater in time. Now, I don’t wanna my blanket to look ugly on one end and nice on the other 😂
You have probably advanced since you posted this, but I'd suggest making a temperature, or other kind of scarf and some beanies, etc. because they're great practice and then go for it with the blanket when you're happy with the evenness. *Or* go for it as a beginner and it might be cool to see how much you've grown and learned over a year in the blanket.
Hi I really love your video it s really inspiring and it makes me want to crochet more :). Temperature blankets are such staple piece but do you thinks it would be possible to do a mood blanket ?
Question number 16....what stitch do you recommend?
So so very informative. I can't wait to try it, thank you!
I can't believe it took me so long to find this site. I love it . Thank you x
Thank you so much for those helpful tips. I have been considering a temp blanket and you have addressed each question I had!
I wonder why she doesn’t use the weather service’s site. They actually provide downloadable spreadsheets. You just select your weather station (like, say, KLAX the one at Los Angeles Airport), then your date range and what values you want. They provide not only highs lows averages and precipitation but also wind, humidity, air pressure, visibility etc etc. Some stations have less and some may have more. The biggest thing for me was that I couldn’t find an option to download a list on WU but that was THE option on the Weather service site.
good thing that both services exist - looks like you needed a feature I didn't :-)
This post is so helpful, thoughtful and inspiring! 🙌🥰🧶
Im starting one in 2022, my first time doing this.
i think i might do a season instead of a year
Great info, thank you! I love your temperature blanket from 2021.
😊Christina
What is a temperature blank? Well I know Thai is a stupid question after seeing this video however I’m not the brightest light in the room lol ! Just new to crocheting ..
I want a temperature showl 2022! And I go to plan hole of things for starting it in january
Super helpful video!! Thanks, Toni!
I'm doing one row low the next high so I'll have
365 low rows X 365 high row so 730 rows for a nice throe
So a “ temperature blanket” is a blanket you crochet from the start of the year to the end of the year (depending on when you choose to start your year?) using the temperatures for the year?? I’m lost lol 😂🤷🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤣
I need some ideas on how to make my temperature blanket. I'm thinking a ripple blanket hmm.
I feel so sad that so many of us (self included) feel the need to get rule validation for something with no rules, like "Does it have to be this year?" Like, of course not, it's not an assignment you're being graded on! There are no rules! But so many of us still feel like we need permission??
You can add me to that boat, too. I believe it's because many of us were introduced to this craft with rules/ instructions/ the "right" way to do things. But crochet is an art and we should feel empowered to learn through play and to put our own stamp on things. I hope, through videos like these, I can encourage people to make their own decisions when it comes to their crochet projects.
Love the red hair
What type of stitch should I use
Can you make a video on how to crochet a temperature blanket
I’m waiting awhile to start mine. I’ve got a lot going on rn and no extra funds to buy the yarn for it rn. I’ve got mine planned out and keeping track of temp just no yarn to start it lol.
Where can one find the past daily temperatures for our area?
This is my very first temp blanket so I think I’m going to do averages, single crochet, and 365 rows 😬
This is what I’m doing as well! But I’m using the highs so there’s more variation
Omg do you have a DreamBox?
Is there a trick to using the historical section of WeatherUndeeground? Every time I put in my city and click Done, it takes me to the place where you can change the date, but when I click on view, it takes me back to the spot to enter the city again and never shows me the temp
My question is how to join linen stitch squares
How to start it
Yarn kn sa use hona h
WHAT IS A TEMPERATURE BLANKET, PLEASE?
I'm still waiting to be accepted into your Facebook group.
I wanted to see the blanket or the workings of it, disappointed.
She has other videos. She's made a few.
It's a Dr. Who scarf on Steroids!