Stringer and I used to like to be able to tell each other:
HYHIABC !!!
and this stood for
Haven’t you heard ? – it’s all been changed !!!
It was a favourite exchange when we were away on location together, as script pages in varying colours were being issued each evening, together with revised shooting schedules. Oh, we were an intolerant pair .. [grin]
Today I utter this unpronounceable “acronym” with regard to my temperature blanket. And when I say “all”, you’d better believe it.
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- It’s not going to be a blanket; and I think it’s going to be a kind of modern art wall hanging, once mounted
- It’s being crocheted in sc*; and I’m happy to say that it looks wonderfully even and pretty damned impressive she said ever so modestly
- It no longer begins on 1st July but on 1st June: this is so that I can make four groups of the three months of each season (that the BoM agrees really should start on the 1st of the relevant month, not the 21st, Downunder). I’m thinking something of this nature:
So anyone who has the faintest memory of my last posting on this topic will understand that I had to frog everything I’d done – the whole of July – and start again. Strangely enough, that kind of thing doesn’t worry me !
There you go: Winter in Geelong consisted of four colours – with a fifth appearing just the once, when our lowest minimum fell below zero ! (see if you can pick it) – and they are, from coldest to least cold, Delphinium, Cobalt, Periwinkle and Alaska Sky .. a sort of lilac, dark blue, blue and pale blue.
If you look at it sideways –
you get an idea of how the four seasons might look, placed as my ‘sketch’ above.
Oh yes: I begin with plain white, and use it also to separate the months.
Any comments ?
*a stitch called, simply, ‘single crochet’
DOWNUNDER WITH BOODZ 
New format? I like it. I love the various shades of blue – so Scandinavian?
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But wouldja believe, the second row this month is green ?
It’s because I’m using the MEAN temp.s for Spring, whereas those Winter colours were the lowest ones.
Then I’ll use the highest ones for Summer, and back to Mean for Autumn ! :D
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Except, hmm, is this playing fair? Means for some months and not for others? I think you explained this but perhaps you’d better explain it again. Was it to do with variety of colour?
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It was indeed. As well, I couldn’t decide between going all low or all high; because either one would be awfully misleading for at least half the year.
So it’s MIN – MEAN -MAX – MEAN, and that’s IT ! :D
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Yes I thought I remembered your saying something like that. Your scheme has a nice ring to it and a pattern.
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My only comment is BEAUTIFUL. I love both the look and the theory of it… and look forward to the spring section. How wide is it?
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If I say 100 chain, will you hold it against me ? [grin]
Hang on a tick …
about 58.5cm. I stopped making the “casting on” chain when I thought it looked wide enough; but of course I didn’t allow for the greater breadth once the chain was filled with stitches.
No worries ..
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My comment is – it’s beautiful! And I’ve wanted to do a temperature ‘something’ for several years, you might just push me over the edge into actually starting one.
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It’s a fascinating thing, a t.b. Even if mine isn’t a blanket, but will be some kind of .. of .. some kind of something. :D
The maths, the maths ! No, wrong: not the maths – the decision as to WHICH temperatures to use – that’s the main (and only) problem. If you go with all the highs, you misrepresent the coldness of winter. Going with all the lows misrepresents the heat of summer. Hence my decision to go with lows for winter, means for spring, highs for summer and means again for autumn. I can tell you that this will produce easily the most varied range of colours.
And choosing them is FUN.
Do it, Hannah !!!
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I have seen a ‘pattern’ for a crochet temperature snake, which I find very tempting. I don’t know what I would do with a giant multicoloured snake when I was done, but it could be fun to find out.
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I haven’t even HEARD of such a thing: it sounds like the best ever ! Imagine ! – a crocheted snake that recorded how a year had been !! – WUNDERBAR !
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