I did it! One whole month of temperatures and precipitation have been tracked using my crazy, difficult plan. Each square represents one day. The center circle is either rain, snow, or low temperature. The second is low temperature or high temperature. The outside circle is the high temperature. See this post for the pattern. What… Continue reading Temperature Blanket: January
A few years back, I bought this book. I fell in love with the afghan featured on the cover. It would not be an easy blanket, but I was determined. It was a blanket made from Tunisian diamonds joining as you go. I tried. I was defeated. I managed a small star and gave up.… Continue reading An Unexpected Afghan
So far, January has been pretty chilly. See those two completely purple circles? Those are days it didn’t get above 10 degrees, and on January 7, the low was -8! On those days, I didn’t even want to take the dog outside! Interestingly, I think one day will be in the 50s this week. This… Continue reading A Chilly January
I’ve been subscribing off and on to Happy Yarn Mail for the past eight months. It is exactly what it says. Happy. Yarn. Mail. I will say what was good got even better. A month ago, Sewrella announced that the HYM format would change. Instead of charging $39 plus shipping for the pattern, yarn, and extras, she… Continue reading Happy Yarn Mittens
For two years now I have participated in the Moogly Crochet Along (CAL). Every two weeks a new pattern is posted for a 12×12″ block. The patterns are from different designers and introduce us to new stitches and techniques. I posted a bit about the Moogly CAL last spring. I did not complete the 2017… Continue reading Crochet-along Blanket
I have made the executive decision to use my artistic license when there is no precipitation. For Day 2, I chose to make the low temperature one circle and the high temperature two. If today is the same color pattern (which I think it will be), I will do two circles of the low temperature… Continue reading Day 2: Joining the squares
Well, today is much like yesterday. I saw snow in the air, but weather.com isn’t claiming any, so I won’t either. I found this to be one of the hardest parts of the blanket: tracking the weather. It’s easy to find what the current weather conditions are and what the forecast is, but it’s harder… Continue reading Tracking the Weather
It’s a new year. It’s a new project: Temperature blanket 2018. In my previous posts, I’ve outlined how the blanket works. I do a square for each day of the year which corresponds to the high temperature. I decided to make mine a little more complicated. The middle circle is white because we got some… Continue reading Day 1: Temperature Blanket
MY YARN ARRIVED!!! I couldn’t be more excited unless it was January 1 and I could actually start this thing. There have been many questions about how this is going to work. First of all, I have assigned every color to a range of temperatures, assuming this area has temps from 0-100 degrees Fahrenheit. It… Continue reading Temperature Blanket Part 2
Hook, line, and sinker. I took the word of a this book that told me I could finish a blanket in a weekend. Maybe someone can. I think this blanket took me 25+ hours. I suppose if I’d done nothing but crochet this weekend. But I guess in all honesty, I started the blanket on… Continue reading The Weekender?
