Temperature Blanket 2022

I actually hadn't planned to make a temperature blanket after seeing many people at the end of last year on TikTok suggesting it perhaps wasn't worth it. I saw blankets end up being absolutely huge, some oddly small and rectangular and I'd seen a couple have yarn be discontinued through the year and have to go on a search to find the perfect match. I'm a perfectionist, so the idea of starting a year long project with potentially a lot of problems wasn't for me.

However, about a week into January I decided I'd just give it a go and see what it would look like for the first week of the year. I picked up some yarn colours from my local shop just for up to 10º or 15º degrees. I live in the UK so this is all in Celsius.  

First of all, I started with a foundation single crochet rather than a chain. Often when I go back across a chain with single crochet, I find it ends up being slightly shorter than when I measured just the chain. It was about 42 inches width when I started out with my very first row and now still the same (possibly a little bigger due to differing tensions). So, I would recommend doing a foundation single crochet to begin!

Figuring out the final length of the blanket is a little more difficult. Possibly definitely because I'm quite lazy with gauge swatches and didn't make one big enough. I'd originally decided it would be 1 inch for every five rows, making the final blanket 72 inches or 6ft. Perfect. I couldn't believe my luck when I'd got this on my first try.

The reality is, the blanket about 4.7 inches for each month. It should be about 56 inches length x 42 width. It's a little closer to being a square than I wanted... but I'm way to far into it now to be overly bothered. Though, I think a 4.5mm/ 4.75mm would have been ideal. 

The Colour Scheme

This is the most fun part and what appealed to me most about temperature blankets in the first place. I knew I wanted a pink/ peachy theme with warmer tones for higher temperatures. The first four colours I picked out at my local store. I didn't buy any more until I knew I was committed to making this and would need colours for higher than 15º. At this point, I just ordered a bunch of warm toned peachy pinks and picked my two favourite - Emu Classic Peachy and Salmon. 

 

I thought it might reach 25º as a daily average but forgot to deal with that until it actually occurred. Unfortunately, I have literally no idea what yarn I used for 25º-29º as it was with my huge stash I was given as a present when I first expressed an interest in crochet. This is the exact same thing that happened when it actually averaged over 30º this year, which I didn't expect at all. 

And here's what its looked like throughout the year!

January

February

March

April 

May

 

June

 

July 

August