Temperature Blanket

I’ve unfortunately been poorly for a couple of weeks with this dreaded virus that seems to be doing the rounds. In a bid to perk myself up a bit, and as something to act as a little distraction I decided to start a crochet Temperature Blanket. I have been wanting to do one for a little while, and decided now was the perfect time to start.
A Temperature Blanket is a year long project where each day (or if you prefer to do a few days at once!) you stitch a row of a blanket to record the temperature of that day. There’s lots of different ways of doing this, for my project I decided to keep things fairly simple.

You’ll traditionally see Temperate Blankets of a rainbow colour palette with blues and greens representing cooler days and reds and oranges for the hotter days.
Being stuck indoors, and with a rather ample stash of yarn, I had a ferret about and decided on a colour scheme that loosely went with my living room.

0° and below – white

1° to 4° – dark grey

5° to 8° – light grey

9° to 12° – dark brown

13° to 16° – cream

17° to 20° – dark cream

21° to 24° – tan

25° to 28° – sand

29° to 32° – ochre

33° and above – burnt orange

(temperature listed in Celsius)

I began with a chain of 350 stitches, a little big maybe but this will make a more square blanket by the end. Then each day I am adding a simple double crochet (UK term, single crochet in US terms) stitch in the colour for the day.

Rather than try and work out average temperatures I am recording the high temperature at 12pm each day and using that as my working guide. I’m also recording the temperature of when I am at 12pm.

The end result should be a fun striped blanket, that will be nice and snuggly!