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My 2016 Temperature Blanket is Complete!

January 26, 2017 By: Deena Price7 Comments

YAY!!! It’s done, a year-long project is complete and I am pleased with the results!

2016 Temperature Blanket - Final

I started this project with a very different pattern in mind.  If you look at my posts from January and February  you can see that my first project was individual squares with the temperature in the middle circle and white surrounding the circle to create the square. I was also adding a square for the beginning of each month and for holidays.

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I was enjoying the project but once I fell behind, it was taking too much time to catch up and I realized that because of all of the other projects I was working on that I didn’t have the time to commit to this pattern for a whole year.

At around the same time, I learned a new pattern called the C2C blanket. C2C stands for Corner to Corner.  This pattern is worked from one corner of the blanket to the opposite corner.  I love this pattern because it can be adjusted so easily to make any size of afghan that you want.  You can make anything from a small square baby blanket to a nice lap size afghan to a king sized blanket for your bed! It is amazingly versatile and so easy to make!

The way I learned to make this blanket was by watching The Crochet Crowd’s YouTube video by Mikey – C2C Pattern

2016 Temperature Blanket - Final

I really do love the way this blanket turned out.  The colors make a nice rainbow effect!

It’s not the best picture of my blanket.  The blanket is actually nice and straight but getting a good picture of my bigger projects can be difficult. For this one I had to climb up on a ladder and lean way out!

Taking pic of Temperature Blanket 2

Don’t mind my leggings and messy bun! I took this picture on a stay at home kind of day!

Taking picture of 2016 Temperature Blanket

Ok, so let’s review the details of this project –

I used The Crochet Crowd video to learn the pattern – C2C Pattern

I used Caron Simply Soft yarn and an H hook.

The following link will show you which colors I used and what temperatures they correspond to.

Temperature Blanket Template 2016

I tracked all of my temperatures in an Excel spreadsheet and checked them off as I completed them. I chose to record the temperature of wherever we were for the night so as we traveled through the summer I recorded our vacation temperatures.  If you look closely enough, you can see some green and pink colors mixed in with my yellow and reds when we were camping some place cooler than our home.

I wanted a blanket that would be a nice lap blanket size. If you are concerned about what size your blanket will be then you need to do a test.  The best way to figure out what size your blanket will be is to crochet a 10×10 block of square and measure them.  Then you can calculate out what your finished size will be.

Here is how the math worked out for me.  I wanted a blanket that was 4-5 feet wide by 6-7 feet long. By doing my test square and then playing with the math, I figured out that if I did 20 clusters of stitches per day then the numbers were close to working out.  I made my blanket 72 clusters wide by 102 clusters long.  This gives me a total of 7344 clusters.  2016 is a leap year so 366 days multiplied by 20 clusters per day equals 7320 clusters.  That gave me 24 more clusters that I needed to incorporate.  I decided to do this by “sneaking” them in! I added 1 extra cluster to each color change. For example, if I had 3 days in a row that were one color instead of 60 clusters, I would complete 61 clusters.  Then if my next day was a different color I would crochet 21 clusters.  I kept track of all of my extra stitches until I had completed the 24 extra stitches. My blanket ended up being 4 1/2 wide by 6 1/2 feet long. It is perfect!

Feel free to ask my any questions, I am happy to help!

Temperature Blanket – Almost There!

January 2, 2017 By: Deena Price4 Comments

Well, I’m almost there! My husband left on a business trip and my 6 month old is growing and took a 2 hour nap today so I had time to complete the whole month of November and weave in all the ends! My goal is to finish my 2016 temperature blanket before bed time tomorrow. I have so many new projects that I want to work on in 2017 but I have to finish this first!

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You can see that my yarn is still attached in this picture.  The color used for the last day in November and the first day in December is the same. It truly is interesting to see almost a years’ worth of temperatures depicted by colors and laid out in one place. You can see a few green patches mixed into the summer colors. I tracked the temperature based on where we were, so when we were camping on the coast and it was 70 degrees that is the color that I used instead of the 90 degree temperature at home.

Temperature Blanket – Catching Up!

January 1, 2017 By: Deena Price2 Comments

Well, I must admit that I got really behind on my 2016 temperature blanket! I decided to make all 12 of my kids a crocheted afghans for Christmas so I had to stop working on my temperature afghan at the end of August to focus on those afghans.  I will post pictures and patterns for those afghans as soon as I’m caught up on this project!

The day after Christmas I picked it up again and got right back to work…I actually worked on it so much that I forgot to take a picture at the end of my September stitches and kept on crocheting right through the end of October! I am planning on finishing the whole afghan by the end of this coming week so be on the look-out for my November and December posts!

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My 2016 temperature blanket only has two more months to go and I am staritng to see how its going to look in the end!

Temperature Blanket While Camping! – Through May 31st

July 20, 2016 By: Deena Pricecomment

This last weekend was our family reunion on my husband’s side.  We all went camping together and relaxed! It was such a fun weekend and I got a lot of crocheting done!

Temperature Blanket through April 30th

You can see that my picture of my temperature blanket through April 30th and May 31st were both taken outside.  I was able to complete 2 1/2 months of this blanket it just one weekend! As you can see from the pinks and yellows our temperatures in April really started to warm up!

Temperature Blanket through May 31st

I took the picture of my temperature blanket through May 31st in direct sunlight so it is a better representation of the colors.  My blanket really isn’t curling on the edges, the ground was just uneven.  As you can see in the right hand corner of the picture, I reached the 72 blocks that I needed for my width of the blanket and I stopped increasing on that side of the blanket.  In May we added lots of bright pink, orange and even some red!

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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!

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