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? It’s random.
In my last post I said I wouldn’t see yellow again for a while. Guess again.
Yesterday, the temperature crept up to nearly 60 degrees. My kids were running around outside without coats, but that wasn’t enough! They took their shoes off and were walking around barefoot–because when it’s winter and 60 degrees you need to enjoy every second of it.
Today, I just zipped my younger two into their winter coats because they want to go out and play in the snow. Yes, yesterday was 60, today we have snow.
Yesterday, there was a tornado less than 30 miles from where we live. A tornado! In January!
Today, we are searching for gloves.
This weather sure it strange!
Jan. 1-3 
Jan. 1-5 Jan. 1-8
As I was crocheting today, I came up with some tips to make your blanket a success.
1. Weave in ends as you go.
If you don’t follow this tip, you’ll be wishing you had. We all know there is a high cost to beauty and the cost of this is four ends per row! With all the color changes it is harder to simply crochet over your ends (and you should be making sure your ends go at least two different directions so they don’t work themselves out). So, get in the habit. Weave in those ends!
2. Find a consistent way to track the weather.
I’m not sure why it just occurred to me, but I finally put a shortcut to the monthly weather on my phone. It can be hard to find the past weather online. I’ve found the best place is weather.com under the monthly screen. With my phone wanting to default to different apps, it is incredibly hard to get there.
I also noticed when googling the monthly weather that the weather is different on different web sites. It shouldn’t be, but it is. Stick with one site for consistency.
3. Switch it up.
My pattern has you starting with the low temperatures every time, but try following the directions but starting with the high temperatures instead every once in a while. This will decrease the bulk of one corner and will keep the square square!
4. Count once. Count twice. Count. Count. Count.
I just completed round 8 on my square and I can honestly say it never occurred to me to count my stitches. One of my sides was looking a little off, so I did count. That side had one too many stitches! It was a mistake easily fixed this early on, but it would have been disastrous if I’d waited too long to count.
After 8 rows (days), my square is measuring in at almost exactly 4 inches. I *think* that’s right on track.
Are you crocheting a temperature blanket with me? If so, make sure you come to my Facebook page and share a picture! I’d love to see what you’re doing.