A couple of days ago, the temperature hit 91 degrees. That’s turn the air conditioner hot, and the humidity has been insane. But I’m ok with 91 because it meant I got to use a new color in my blanket: hot pink. It goes so nicely with the yellow center that it looks just like… Continue reading April Showers Bring May Flowers – A New Hue
I sat down the other evening to track a week’s worth of weather for my temperature blanket. I logged on to my computer, found the monthly weather view and wrote it down. I really couldn’t remember it being 66 degrees and snowy on my daughter’s birthday, but the computer said it was 66 and I… Continue reading A Beautiful Oops
Weaving in ends (A poem with a nod to Dr. Seuss) Weave in ends, weave in ends, I do not like weaving in ends. I will not weave them here or there I will not weave them anywhere. I do not like weaving in ends. I do not like it no matter when. Try it?… Continue reading In Like a Lion – March 2018 Temperature Blanket
It’s the 5th day of March and I’m finally getting around to updating the Temperature Blanket. Actually, I’m going to be proud of myself for even being this close to up-to-date. I hate to think of how far I’ll lag behind as the year goes on. I also didn’t want to post pictures on the… Continue reading Fluctuating February
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
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 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
