I discovered this enticing idea through an on-line American woman whose posts I’d first found a long time ago, when she was just a really keen and really able crocheting person. Now she’s a business, and doing so well as to have a DreamBox !! Sighh ..
It was through Toni that I learned of a crocheting project (although it could be knitted, I haven’t found a single example) that takes a year. Exactly.
It’s like this: you take the highest temperature your town/city experiences and the lowest, and divide that range into small groups – mine is in groups of 3°; then you allocate to every group a colour. My total of colours is 14 (I think, without checking). You choose your starting date – it can be as noteworthy as January 1st or as insignificant as May 23rd – and off you go.
Get it ?
You’re crocheting a blanket comprising a record (within 3° or whatever) of the temperatures of where you live, over a whole year, one day at a time.
Here‘s a perfect example, from 2016.
The woman who made that one has chosen an interesting group of colours, and you can imagine how other people’s blankets would be completely different. Hers was celebrated by our Bureau of Meteorology (known all over Oz as BOM); whereas mine also utilizes the BOM range, but interpreted differently:
There’s the colour range that BOM uses on its weather maps; but I don’t see, e.g., exactly the same colours in her blanket.
So: you observe that I’m doing a 1st July – 30th June year, and that so far only three of the colours are in play.
All I’ve been able to do to date is the very first row, which is a divider that will occur between every month: I don’t yet have the relevant colours in hand. My own fault: I meant to use the mean temperatures until I discovered through doing the sums that I was going to have a very repetitive colourway. So I decided instead to do what I hope can be read below the dark blue bit on the top left – Autumn equinox and Winter solstice the lowest and Spring equinox and Summer solstice the highest. Having purchased the colours for the mean temperatures, that left me without any for the lowest; but they’re now ordered – and posted ! – from Tassie, and will reach me some time this week.
Having seen the size of the blanket the BOM employee made, I’m going to copy Toni and do mine in five*# panels: that way it becomes a controllable and even usable object ! And I will use Tunisian crochet, too (won’t need a cable about 5m long if it’s in panels); but maybe not TSS .. Hmmm ..
This is very definitely a project that requires quite a number of posts. Stand by, anyone who likes the sound of this !
*I lied. It’s going to be seven panels.
#No I didn’t: five panels it is.
DOWNUNDER WITH BOODZ 
Will you ever stop challenging yourself !
What a great idea ! Double bed size ?
5 panels – each how wide and how long?
You’re amaaazing 👌😜🥰🥰🥰🌷
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Oh, how you do go on ! :D
Yeah, 5 panels. They won’t be very wide, or I’ll end up with a blanket the same length as the BOM lady .. I think, oh, about mebbe 40cm ? That way it would end up around 6 feet. I think. :\ XXOXOXOXX
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Way too techy for me, but you go girl!!
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As long as the idea appeals, Amanda .. :)
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Irish temperature blanket wouldn’t be too colourful; it’s usually mid-range temperature here. Maybe we should have a Precipitation Blanket version here ;)
Looking forward to seeing your updates!
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Heyyy ! – what an idea, Kat ! [grin] You could make the very first, maybe comprising a big range of blues, creams and white ..
In truth, when you look at the BOM employee’s blanket, you see a whole big lot of not much variation; so I’m hoping that making it from winter rather than summer will change that ..
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I don’t have the stick-to-it-tiveness to do a blanket, but I recently saw a temperature scarf, which sounds much more manageable.
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Dunno if you’re old enough (and suspect strongly you’re not) to remember the Doctor Who who wore a very long scarf ? – 365 rows is pretty damned long .. :D
Today (8th) is my birthday, Michele; and I shall take it as read that your response is to cry “Oh, M.R. – happy birthday !” – so you don’t need to. [grin]
Oh shit: Boodie has just discovered my flowers ..
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Happy belated, Margaret-Rose! I recall Dr Who’s scarf, very trip-worthy. I’ve never heard of a temperature blanket! But what a wonderful idea.
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Hello CJ – thanks ! :) Isn’t it ? – I’ve just finished a complete re-resign of panels; one must start from the left and work to the right so as to JAYG. And I sure ain’t doin any binding together afterwards ! :D
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‘Join as you go’ – you didn’t trick me, for I did more than look at the pictures when I googled. I like the idea of a birth year one.
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1943 is so far back that I cannot imagine being able to raise interest in it .. although the climate in Perth was indeed VERY different ..
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Now that I’ve seen it written down, I can understand better what you were talking about. I rather like it. So much so that I’m tempted to start my own come January 1 as a 2021 project. I like the idea of a spreadsheet, recording the highest temp that day (how I would do it) and the corresponding colour so that if I get behind, I can just use the spreadsheet to catch up. :) I’m looking forward to your finished product to see how it turns out.
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I think you’d enjoy the process, H me little love. I shan’t post a pic until I’ve done a whole month: because I’m only on panel 1 of 5, it’s not much to look at.
But it will be, one day.
Well, I tell myself so. :D
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This sounds wonderful – as well as a good exercise in patience! I look forward to updates, bimonthly? Quarterly? Whatever, we want them.
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I was thinking monthly .. But would you believe, dear Sue, that I’m in a cleft stick about maybe re-designing …?
Yeah, you would. Easily. :D
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Yep, would. And, monthly would be perfect.
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