I took this video to the breakfast table to show my son. He’s a retired US Air Force meteorologist. He stopped eating and couldn’t take his eyes off it while you were going through all the temperatures until the end. He never closed his mouth. I don’t think a meteorologist has ever seen the weather in quite this way. I was of course entertained by just watching his face. This is beautiful work and should really find its way into a time capsule one day. I plan to start one of my own. We live in the Deep South in Mississippi. I will have to intersperse it with lightning strikes and choose a special color combination for hurricanes. I’ll use larger beads for hail and perhaps some longer stitches for wind. Still thinking about how to do tornadoes. Thank you so much for this. Truly beautiful and inspiring. I had no idea people were doing this. Brilliant idea. Art as the imitation of nature in its truest form!😅
I was thinking about this just the other day. How I'd do different colours for temperatures and then a set of stitches for type of weather. I never thought of adding beads and such though! I wonder jow i could use different types of thread. 🤔 Thanks for the inspiration and for showing me how beautiful it would end up! 💜
I love it! You have 100% inspired me 😊 I did a temperature tree in 2020 (one leaf for each day) and it came out amazing. I think it is because I live at the bottom of the Australian high country, so the temps go from -2° to 47°. I've been looking for another type to try and nothing has caught my eye until now. Luckily I bought a digital weather station so I can go back and look at records. Looking forward to following your next project throughout the year. Happy Stitching!
I love the idea of a temperature tree Jessica! How did that work? I would love to see it if you wouldn't mind sharing (sarahhomfray@blueyonder.co.uk). I didn't know Australian temperatures varied so much!
I love this @ Sarah Homfrey ! Wish I wasn't seeing it in March 🤣 I don't know what Jessica means by a tempreature tree, but for many years my children would have a Steiner style weather tree. It's on paper, each month has a big branch and each day is a leaf. Every day the leaf is coloured in depending on the weather. I'm now thinking that combining both ideas could be really special ❤️
I was so intrigued by this idea that I'm doing a log cabin inspired design with beads representing monthly birth stone at the start of each month. I'm working on 18 count Aida because I had a piece . For 2023. I have a picture but can't figure out how to attach it. I'm pretty good with a needle but not so much with technology 😁
I love this!! 2023 is gonna be a very creative year. Thanks for this grand idea. Although I'm in Florida so guess mine will be mostly Red, orange, yellow, rain, and maybe a few lines of bluish. Lol
I loved your temperature sample. This would be a great project to practice my embroidery stitches. I'm currently cross stitching a temperature tree on 14 count adia. I loved the way you incorporated beads to indicate rain and snow. I'm going to use that element with some of the leaves. I live in Maryland, United States and I experience all the seasons. Thanks for sharing. Also I loved the project a year. You've got me inspired which is easy to do when it comes to stitching.
@@sarahhomfraycreates The temperature tree is a pattern that was created by the Floss tube creator Stitchin' Mommie. The tree is composed of 12 branches representing the 12 months of the year. Each branch holds the leaves for each month. Each leaf indicates the temperature high for the day. You select the range of colors to represent the different temperatures. I'm currently stitching October and it's interesting to see the season change.
What a lovely project, it is beautiful and so interesting to study all the different stitches in the sampler. I can't wait to see the journal you are planning to make this year as your annual project.
I'm hoping to buy a house sometime this year and when I do I'm going to get a weather station to record the weather there. I think I'll also buy some linen stitchband to start one of these samplers at that point!
Sarah, wow thank you so much for your video and share. I live in a place where we say “if you don’t like the weather, wait a moment, it will change.” This is so pretty. I can’t wait to see the book.
I struggle with the design control thing too, so I love that you let nature choose the colours. It turned out great and I love the way you put the rain and snow in to give it more detail than just the temperature. It would be interesting to map multiple years into one of these side by side to see how the climate changed. It would give it more of a patchwork look because you would have to shorten the length of the days to keep the scale down to a reasonable width. I have been meaning to make a needle book, so I'm looking forward to seeing how your journal comes together.
I got a cross stitch pattern for a temperature chart, that has a book shelf filled with books and the books show the temperature but oh my goodness after seeing yours!!! It’s beautiful!! Oh I do wanna specify for the cross stitch pattern I have, its just the temperature, not rain. I have to fiddle with the colors for the temperatures because I live in Alabama and it only gets to maybe 20 degrees F to 110 degrees F. I was wondering how I could keep track of the awful humidity lol! I cannot get over how beautiful yours is!! I told my BFF I need to start sewing with beads!
Hello Sarah, I love your temperature embroidery! I am making my first temperature (crochet) blanket this year, but am totally inspired by your embroidery. I am gathering myself to start on January 1st. Can I ask where you got the tiny ladybirds and flies etc?
I'm not sure where they came from now Jen, the lady bird is a little button so start searching small buttons! Enjoy your temperature sampler, it's fun to see it grow!
Watching this has made me realise I need to rethink my histroic temperatue sampler. I will keep the min and max tempurature colours but I will change from a fine silk to something more textured - worseted wool perhaps. But thank you for this video this has given me the kick I need to face up to my current WiP and admit it's over engineered an needs rethinking. But I love what you have done and I will get to do mine again this year! :)
It's easy to over engineer neelde and fur (I know, I used to be an engineer)!! Perhaps mix the threads up? I made all the choices at the beginning of the project re threads, beads and colours so that the only thing I needed to decide was what stitch I was gonig to do that day...
@@sarahhomfraycreates thankfully I'm using historical data (1875) and I think...think I'll either do a herringbone or leafy stitch for the minimum and maximum temperatures for each day. I might look at some different threats maybe have a threat type for each season/quarter. Time to put my thinking cap on. Thanks again for the inspiration
What a great idea!!!!
I took this video to the breakfast table to show my son. He’s a retired US Air Force meteorologist. He stopped eating and couldn’t take his eyes off it while you were going through all the temperatures until the end. He never closed his mouth. I don’t think a meteorologist has ever seen the weather in quite this way. I was of course entertained by just watching his face. This is beautiful work and should really find its way into a time capsule one day. I plan to start one of my own. We live in the Deep South in Mississippi. I will have to intersperse it with lightning strikes and choose a special color combination for hurricanes. I’ll use larger beads for hail and perhaps some longer stitches for wind. Still thinking about how to do tornadoes. Thank you so much for this. Truly beautiful and inspiring. I had no idea people were doing this. Brilliant idea. Art as the imitation of nature in its truest form!😅
That's a wonderful story Cathy! Yes, adjust to where you live! Sounds like you have some great ideas...
Very nice
Great idea
Well done!
Great fun!
I am inspired!
So wonderful. Live this idea.
Lovely idea, where I am the sampler would be three hundred rows of yellow with a few streaks of orange and around thirty rows of pale blue beads!
You could do a different colour for every degree change in temperature then it would be more colourful!!
What a wonderful idea, it’s stunning……
Hadn't heard of a temperature record before. Love the idea!
Love this idea! Southern California is usually warm so there wouldn’t be much variation for me, but I still want to try it. Thanks for sharing!
You could try doing one based on your mood instead :) happy = yellow. Blue = sad. Red = angry etc
I was thinking about this just the other day. How I'd do different colours for temperatures and then a set of stitches for type of weather. I never thought of adding beads and such though! I wonder jow i could use different types of thread. 🤔 Thanks for the inspiration and for showing me how beautiful it would end up! 💜
I love the idea of recording and then keeping track with stitches! What a gorgeous and creative project!
I wanted to keep it going but there are too many other projects to have a go at!
That's absolutely beautiful, what a fantastic way to record a year. I'm very interested to see how your journal takes shape.
Thanks for the reminder Jane, I better get on with January before it's February! x
There is no end to the inventiveness of an embroiderer. Really looking forward to seeing this year's project.
I love the idea of a book with some stitching each day. I look forward to seeing how it builds up Sarah.
It is absolutely beautiful, Sarah! You did a great job!!
Thank you Renea!
Wow! Love it all! Very inspiring and good tips in how to modify it for less experienced folk. Ta!
I love it! You have 100% inspired me 😊
I did a temperature tree in 2020 (one leaf for each day) and it came out amazing. I think it is because I live at the bottom of the Australian high country, so the temps go from -2° to 47°. I've been looking for another type to try and nothing has caught my eye until now. Luckily I bought a digital weather station so I can go back and look at records.
Looking forward to following your next project throughout the year.
Happy Stitching!
I love the idea of a temperature tree Jessica! How did that work? I would love to see it if you wouldn't mind sharing (sarahhomfray@blueyonder.co.uk). I didn't know Australian temperatures varied so much!
I love this @ Sarah Homfrey ! Wish I wasn't seeing it in March 🤣 I don't know what Jessica means by a tempreature tree, but for many years my children would have a Steiner style weather tree. It's on paper, each month has a big branch and each day is a leaf. Every day the leaf is coloured in depending on the weather. I'm now thinking that combining both ideas could be really special ❤️
Should have been @SarahHomfrayCreates
Feeling really inspired to make a weather tree,in embroidery, from March to March anyway!
I wish we could share pictures of our work on RUclips, I would love to see your tree, it sounds amazing.
I was so intrigued by this idea that I'm doing a log cabin inspired design with beads representing monthly birth stone at the start of each month. I'm working on 18 count Aida because I had a piece . For 2023. I have a picture but can't figure out how to attach it. I'm pretty good with a needle but not so much with technology 😁
Love your idea Betty! To attach a picture, could you make see through pocket to slip it in?
I love this!! 2023 is gonna be a very creative year. Thanks for this grand idea. Although I'm in Florida so guess mine will be mostly Red, orange, yellow, rain, and maybe a few lines of bluish. Lol
You could do smaller temperature differences, so a different colour for every degree then it would have some beautiful shading!
Beautifully done! I live in sunny Florida and it is always ☀️. Thanks for sharing such a fun idea.
Probably not many(any!) sequins in yours then Annette!
I have seen some gorgeous crocheted and knitted temp blankets, but this is the first temp embroidery I've seen and it's a lovely idea! So pretty!
I'm not very good at crocheting or knitting so my only option was to stitch one!
I loved your temperature sample. This would be a great project to practice my embroidery stitches. I'm currently cross stitching a temperature tree on 14 count adia. I loved the way you incorporated beads to indicate rain and snow. I'm going to use that element with some of the leaves. I live in Maryland, United States and I experience all the seasons. Thanks for sharing. Also I loved the project a year. You've got me inspired which is easy to do when it comes to stitching.
What's a temperature sampler tree Annette? Would love to know how that works (because I don't have enough projects!!!:))
@@sarahhomfraycreates The temperature tree is a pattern that was created by the Floss tube creator Stitchin' Mommie. The tree is composed of 12 branches representing the 12 months of the year. Each branch holds the leaves for each month. Each leaf indicates the temperature high for the day. You select the range of colors to represent the different temperatures. I'm currently stitching October and it's interesting to see the season change.
That is so pretty! I would love to learn how you do the book! Thank you for doing these inspiring videos! 💖
Really pretty and I love the colors you used. Great job. Lots of work but it’s a beautiful piece to reflect the last year.
It doesn't seem so much work when it's spread over 365 days Pam and you can't see it all in one go!
Love this idea and look of it. I will definitely give it a try someday!
Just beautiful! What a fantastic idea. I can ‘’t wait to make one. Thank you for sharing!
What a lovely project, it is beautiful and so interesting to study all the different stitches in the sampler. I can't wait to see the journal you are planning to make this year as your annual project.
Oh my goodness... Sarah, this is very lovely!! Thank you for sharing your beautiful workings.
Thank you Gwyn!
Beautiful!
I'm hoping to buy a house sometime this year and when I do I'm going to get a weather station to record the weather there. I think I'll also buy some linen stitchband to start one of these samplers at that point!
Great idea! What a wonderful way to record something in your new home too Tim; you can start these at any time!
This is so beautiful💜. I never thought of stitching a Temperature sampler , like you I have heard of knitted and crochet ones. It’s a great idea.
Born out of necessity due to not being able to knit or crochet very well Suzanne!
Sarah, wow thank you so much for your video and share. I live in a place where we say “if you don’t like the weather, wait a moment, it will change.” This is so pretty. I can’t wait to see the book.
Your sampler would look great then Cathy!!
I struggle with the design control thing too, so I love that you let nature choose the colours. It turned out great and I love the way you put the rain and snow in to give it more detail than just the temperature. It would be interesting to map multiple years into one of these side by side to see how the climate changed. It would give it more of a patchwork look because you would have to shorten the length of the days to keep the scale down to a reasonable width. I have been meaning to make a needle book, so I'm looking forward to seeing how your journal comes together.
Yes several years would be interesting Jacqueline, so many things to do and not enough time!
Hermoso trabajo... muy buena idea para comenzar el año!!!
Thank you Margarita!
I got a cross stitch pattern for a temperature chart, that has a book shelf filled with books and the books show the temperature but oh my goodness after seeing yours!!! It’s beautiful!!
Oh I do wanna specify for the cross stitch pattern I have, its just the temperature, not rain. I have to fiddle with the colors for the temperatures because I live in Alabama and it only gets to maybe 20 degrees F to 110 degrees F. I was wondering how I could keep track of the awful humidity lol!
I cannot get over how beautiful yours is!! I told my BFF I need to start sewing with beads!
Could you swap temperatures for percentages and record the humidity levels instead Taylor? Beads could represent how much you perspire!!! :)
Hello Sarah, I love your temperature embroidery! I am making my first temperature (crochet) blanket this year, but am totally inspired by your embroidery. I am gathering myself to start on January 1st. Can I ask where you got the tiny ladybirds and flies etc?
I'm not sure where they came from now Jen, the lady bird is a little button so start searching small buttons! Enjoy your temperature sampler, it's fun to see it grow!
Watching this has made me realise I need to rethink my histroic temperatue sampler. I will keep the min and max tempurature colours but I will change from a fine silk to something more textured - worseted wool perhaps. But thank you for this video this has given me the kick I need to face up to my current WiP and admit it's over engineered an needs rethinking. But I love what you have done and I will get to do mine again this year! :)
It's easy to over engineer neelde and fur (I know, I used to be an engineer)!! Perhaps mix the threads up? I made all the choices at the beginning of the project re threads, beads and colours so that the only thing I needed to decide was what stitch I was gonig to do that day...
@@sarahhomfraycreates thankfully I'm using historical data (1875) and I think...think I'll either do a herringbone or leafy stitch for the minimum and maximum temperatures for each day. I might look at some different threats maybe have a threat type for each season/quarter. Time to put my thinking cap on. Thanks again for the inspiration
Did you use the high, low, or average temp for each day?
I used the highest temperature reached that day Arlyce but you can choose!
Hi Sarah, I’m thinking of starting one of these for 2024. For the Aida fabric, I have the length needed, but what width do I look for? Thanks x
Whatever width you like Helen! Just bare in mind there is a row for every day so don't make it too wide...
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What a beautiful idea! Wish i'd seen this on December 31st am having to go back through the Met Office website to check January!!!
I got a bit behind with mine and had to do the same!
Beautiful!