So, I did this thing where I cleaned up the yarn in the living room. It became “out of sight, out of mind,” and I got two whole months behind on my temperature blanket. I got March done, and now I’m just one month behind! I have to say, I’ve really been enjoying this pattern.… Continue reading Spring is here
February turned into a very pretty block for the 2019 Temperature Blanket. For the most part, the temperature was pretty frosty, except for a week of El Nino toward the beginning. We’re expecting a few more inches of snow this morning, but I’m going to hold onto that patch of yellow and continue to hope… Continue reading Frosty February
I am finished with my January block for my 2019 Temperature Blanket. I’m on time. It’s probably the only time I will ever be on time. It’s different, but I like it. This picture was taken post blocking. With the number of ends to weave in, I found that the center of the square was… Continue reading Jumpy January
I used to work in publishing. There was always a bittersweet moment when a book was finally published. That book which I worked on for weeks or months or years, no longer needed me. It was finished. I was proud of it, but I was in some fashion sad to say good-bye to it. Today… Continue reading My Baby (Temperature Blanket)
This post should be of my completed Temperature Blanket, but I still have some ends to weave in, and I refuse to publish it as finished until that happens. Instead, I thought I’d give you a closer look at my border. This was a tricky border to create. The way I joined the squares makes… Continue reading Border Patrol
There is not a single flake in the air, but they say it’s coming: Snowmageddon. We are close to the line of rain vs. snow, but currently they are call for 8-12 inches. I’m so hyped up about this that I’m going to be bummed if we don’t get more than six. So, we’ve got… Continue reading Snowed In? 5 Projects to Keep You Busy
When I was growing up, our city had a service called Time & Temperature. There was a number we could call (on our corded phone). The only thing it did was tell you what time it was and what the temperature was. Ahhh…the things we had to go through before the Internet really was a… Continue reading Time & Temperature
In our home school, my kids just finished a unit on meteorology and climate. It was fun to learn about the different kinds of weather, the ocean currents, and that sort of thing. (Because it’s home school, I just finished the unit, too.) There were definitely some interesting tidbits, but didn’t necessarily always relate to… Continue reading Meteorology Becomes Cool
What’s the phrase? If you don’t like the temperature in *insert your state here* just wait 10 minutes. Weather is unpredictable. That’s what makes it so fun to track with yarn. I once heard that humans are not able to pick random numbers, colors, etc., because our brains will find a pattern. Well, the weather?… Continue reading Tips for Temperature Success
Compared to last year, my first three days of my new blanket are tiny. It honestly took me longer to sew in my ends than it did to crochet it. Here in Western Pennsylvania, we started the New Year with temps in the 60s. That yellow at the center of the square is unlikely to… Continue reading Happy New Temperature Blanket!
