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Here is the pattern for my "fancy" square for my temperature blanket. The text is the same as what was in my main post about the blanket, but this one will have step by step pictures for anyone who likes it see the pattern as well as or instead of reading it.

The square was for Thursday June 3, it was 24 degrees Celsius with no rain, so the square is Forest and the border is Walnut Tweed, both "Impeccable Loops & Threads" yarn.

( pattern with pictures )

I hope the visual instructions for both squares are helpful, or at least interesting to look at. I will also post a picture, and possibly instructions, for sewing a row together omce I have one complete. My rows are going to be 9 squares across and today is the 9th, so I suspect I will have the row together by the end of the weekend, if everything goes according to plan.

At the beginning of the year, ysabetwordsmith posted a bunch of ideas for projects and goals and such, and one of those projects was a temperature blanket. For those not familiar with what that is (it's okay, I wasn't either when I first saw it), it is a blanket made to keep track of the daily temperature. You can use a few colours or lots of colours, depending on how big you want each range of temperatures to be; if you go by 5 degree Fahrenheit increments, you will need more colours than if you go by 10 or 15 degrees per range. All of the blankets I saw were for the entire year, and either knit of crocheted one row for every day.

Doing a whole year seemed like a heck of a lot of work to me, and would have been a bunch of different colours, since my area can go from about -10 degrees Celsius all the way up to about 35 or 36 degrees Celsius in the course of a year (about 15 degrees Fahrenheit to about 95 degrees Fahrenheit). And on top of all the new goals I was trying to establish and maintain in January, starting such a big project wasn't feasible. Instead, I decided I would do a summer blanket, for the months of June, July, and August. That gave me time to settle in to my other goals, time to plan the project, a shorter amount of time to make the project, and a smaller range of colours I needed to buy. I also decided to crochet squares instead of rows, since I find that a little easier, and it makes the colour changes much easier.

I still wanted a decent size blanket, because I am usually cold enough to need them, so I went with six inch squares. The size is also because of the two patterns I chose to use, one has a set number of rounds and ends up being about six inches big. With 92 days (ugh) in three months, I am going to do a blanket that is 9x10 squares, and use the last two days to do a border around the edge of the blanket. This should give me a blanket that is roughly 54x60 inches, which is a good size for something like a couch blanket. I will put my pattern and all other blanket information under a cut, so that anyone could make a blanket like mine, if they wanted. I'll do my best to make it logical and coherent, but I don't have much experience with writing out patterns, so if it needs revision or clarification let me know and I'll do my best to fix it.

( Temperature Blanket Instructions )

I'm currently working on one of my fancy squares and am taking pictures of each round. The next square is going to be a plain one, so I will take step by step pictures of that one as well, and then post them in a separate post, for any visual thinkers out there.

Let me know what you think, and I'll try to post progress pictures as I go!

ETA: I'm getting all of my temperatures from https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/canada/windsor/historic I typically check them at night, or the following day, just to be sure I don't miss a higher temperature, or some unexpected rain. Whether it's the most accurate site or not, I don't know, but it does seem to be within a degree or two at least.