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Temperature Blanket – Week 5

February 7, 2016 By: Deena Pricecomment

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Week 5 was a great week for my Temperature Blanket! I got to add the special block for February – a heart and I got to start my 3rd row!

I found my heart pattern here – Heart Pattern I made the size C, large heart pattern. I used Caron Simply Soft Sparkle in Red Sparkle.

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I was excited to start my 3rd row! My temperature blanket is starting to look more like a blanket and less like a few squares stitched together!

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I have collected a few sparkly yarn and some varigated yarn for all my special blocks!  I found a basket in a smaller size that matches all the yarn for my temperature blanket. In 2 weeks, I get to add a block for Valentine’s Day and 2 family birthdays!

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Temperature Blanket – Week 4

February 4, 2016 By: Deena Pricecomment

My temerature blanket is really starting to take shape and have some fun colors in it! We have been having some unseasonable warm temperatures in January this year and you can really see that with some of the bright green blocks!

You can see that I finally got my new #1 sewed on.  I definitely like it much better than the straight line for a one.

Temp Blanket Week 4

I tried folding my blanket to get a better picture.  you can still see all the colorful blocks but it was way easier to get a good picture this way! I am excied for next week…I get to add a heart for February!

Temperature Blanket – Week 2 & 3

February 3, 2016 By: Deena Pricecomment

Temp Blanket Week 2

In week 2, my blanket is getting longer and it’s getting harder to take a picture! I laid it out on my dinning room table but I couldn’t get high enough to get a picture straight on so it is kind of crooked! I was very excited to add my Blue Mint color!

Temp Blanket Week 3

For week 3, I switched my blanket to my floor but accidentally got my toes in the picture! You can see that I have taken off my #1 in the 3rd block and I hadn’t sewn it back on yet because I wanted to get to the craft store and purchase the clear thread.  I was excited to start on my 2nd row.  The blanket will be 416 squares which is 18 squares wide by 22 squares long…

How I have my blanket planned out is that the “Month Block” (like the snowflake for January) will be at the very beginning of the month but any “Holiday Block” (like my #1 for New Years Day) will be the block after the temperature block for the day.  So the first block is my January block, the 2nd block is the temperature for January 1st, the 3rd block is the #1 for the special block for New Years day.

Please feel free to message me with any questions!

Temperature Blanket Pattern and Week 1 Completed!

February 3, 2016 By: Deena Pricecomment

I tried out quite a few patterns before I settled on the pattern that I liked the most for my temperature blanket…it needed to be a pattern that I would still like doing a year from now! Also, I wanted to pick a pattern that would be easy to add my decorative blocks too.

I chose the following pattern from spincushions.com – Squaring The Circle

Each block is a colored circle with a white edging that squares the block.  The color of the inner circle represents the HIGH temperature for each day of 2016!  I used Caron Simply Soft Yarn and a size H hook.  Each block is 4 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches.

Temperature Blanket - One Block

I chose a snowflake pattern to be the block that represented January.  I found the pattern online and posted as a PDF

Snowflake for January

I used a size 2 sparkly silver yarn with a size F hook to acheive the size of snowflake that I wanted.  The block for the month will be placed at the begining of the month before any temperature blocks are placed.  I made the square block with all white yarn and made the snowflake seperately.  I am using Coats brand transparent thread to sew all of the holiday designs on to the blocks.

Temp Blanket January Block - Snowflake

For the New Years Day holiday, I chose to represent that block with the #1.  I found a great video tutorial on youtube  – Tutorial for #1

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With my January (snowflake) block done and my New Years Day (#1) block done, I then crocheted the first 7 blocks with their coordinating temperatures!

Temp Blanket Week 1

I am LOVING how it is starting out! As you can see in this picture the #1 is differnt.  This was the first #1 that I did, and I didn’t like how it looked, so I took it off and crocheted the pink #1!

2016 Temperature Blanket – The Planning Stages

February 3, 2016 By: Deena Pricecomment

I first heard about Temperature Blankets on December 30th of 2015.  At first I thought it was a crazy idea but then I was intrigued. So, I joined a group on FaceBook and got started planning my own Temperature Blanket.  My color choices have gone through quite a few iterations but I am finally satisfied with the colors I have and I believe they will give a good representation of the temperatures that we have here in South East Washington!  Because we live in the desert, our temperatures range from the negatives to well over 100 deg. each year!

I am using Caron Simply Soft yarn to crochet by blanket and I have decided to make squares and join them.  I decided this for 2 reasons…I felt I could better control the size of my blanket by planning my squares out ahead of time and it will only take me 15 mintues a day to make and join each square instead of doing a long stripe each day. Also, I rarely make blankets that I have to join so I thought this would give me some good practice throughout the year!

So, I started by planning my color choices and these are what I ended up with:

Temp Blanket Color Chart

*I found this cute basket to hold all of my yarn!

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For my yarn that denotes our cooler temperatures, I placed the yarn in a dark to light gradiation (for grey, purples and blues) then when we get to the colors that denote our warmer temperatures, I laid the colors out in a light to dark gradiation (greens, pinks, yellows, oranges and reds).  By doing it this way, I believe the colors better represent the true temperatures that they portray.

The next stage of my planning was figuring out how I wanted my blanket squares to be laid out.   You can see how I chose to lay my blanket out by clicking the link below.  I will have 416 squares when my blanket is complete.  I chose to do one square for each day of the year, 1 square to denote the begining of each month, one square for each of our families birthdays and I included a square for quite a few of our holidays.

Temperature Blanket Template

I am tracking the weather at www.acuweather.com and I am recording it in an Excel spreadsheet that I created.

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I am a stay-at-home-mom of 12 wonderful kids! My two oldest sons live on their own. And my 10 youngest (ages, 3, 4, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17 & 18) live at home! We have been fortunate enough to be foster parents for the last 5 years. We have adopted 7 kiddos out of foster care and currently have one foster daughter - life is crazy and busy, but we LOVE it! I have been crafting for about 20 years. I started with stamping and crocheting and my hobby has grown from there! I always say, "I haven't met a craft I didn't like!" At this time, I spend the majority of my craft time crocheting because I can crochet in the family room while the kids play! Although I am an extremely busy mom, I spend my evenings creating! I love to make gifts for my family and friends. Feel free to leave a comment and tell me what you like or what you don't like or what you would like to see more of!

Deena

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