I've heard about this a while ago, but only just decided yesterday to have a go at it. I've been wanting to take up crochet and of course I'd want my first task to be an afghan 😂 but I've chosen more neutral colours leaning toward pastel / dusty hues. And for birthdays I'm using mustard. Separating each month with either white or grey.. I'm still deciding🤭
Thank you for this useful video. I made my first temperature blanket in 2022. It was a crochet along and did the high temperature on Wednesday. I changed mine to be the high and low temp. It gave me more color variation and I enjoyed the entire process. I’m currently working on a pregnancy temperature blanket for my first grandchild. I’m using the high and low weekly temperatures. I’m also doing a second one for the year. They are addicting!
I never heard of this blanket before and I've been crocheting for years. I just watched Mikey and found it very interesting. Going to make it next year when I retire.
Just now finding this tutorial and I am making a blanket for my best friend’s first baby, starting at the day she was born. So excited to see how it turns out and this tutorial made it easy for me to understand since I’m still a beginner. Thank you!
My fiance and I recieved one of these Christmas 2018 he proposed that day and the afghan was the colors of the year we met/started dating. There was a sparkly silver line for our anniversary. Its amazing!!
This is what I want to do! Do the year my hubby and I got married and do a sparkly line for our wedding day and then a sparkly version of the color of the day showing our kid's birthdays. 😊
This is probably the best explained temperature blanket video I've watched. As far as explanation, it's so much easier doing a single or half double crochet or even a double crochet. Compared to all the other temperature videos blankets out there. I like how you weaved in your ends over the top of the rows. That way no tails to be weaved in later. Thank you for this tutorial, I'm hoping I can get a copy of the charts you showed. On the temperature and hook size and stitch chart.
I was thinking of doing this but with 2 yarns - one for the temperature and one for precipitation. Like a sparkly white for snow, sparkly blue for frost, plain white for hail, blue for light rain, dark blue for heavy rain. Maybe grey if its overcast but not raining.
Mikey this is really cool.. But like you we are up north, not in Canada, but Maine.. I think it would be really cool, and add some texture if on a snowy day, you did the purple and white together.. and in the summer maybe a grey added for rain and or thunderstorms. This is one of the things I love the most living in Maine, we never know what the day will bring.. This year we had over 45 days in the 80's and 90's, We never know what we are going to get. We are pleased now with this rain, this drought we have has got to go... But back to the blanket, I think it would be cool to add other colors to the main colors for snow, rain, humidity.. whatever..... Now to decide what yarn to use starting New Years Day.. Thank You so much for the neat idea!!!!
Fantastic looking and fun afghan. Now to check colours that I have. :) Temperatures in southern Alberta range from 30 C in summer to -40 C in winter, so this could get interesting. Maybe I'll need to only add rows once or twice a week... cause 365 rows sounds like the blanket would end up gigantic. LOL But it might make a really interesting wall hanging if I kept the width more receiving blanket size. Hmm... I have to go think about this. :)
June Vollans Geez it doesn't sound like you guys have a time to even thaw out from the Winter months. I live in California and where I live we have temps of 20-40 Fahrenheit in Winter to 100-115+ in the Spring/Summertime. Today it was 88°F. I can't wait until it really cools off for a change! I couldn't function with where you live, that's extremely Cold!😊
It certainly can be. -40 C is -40 F, so it can get really cold at times. And generally we get a good lot of snow as well. But it can be very beautiful in winter, especially when a hore frost happens. Then all of the trees and bushes are covered with the most lovely frost and it's very magical. Then of course we get Chinook winds in the winter and all of the snow can go away and temperatures rise to the 20s C (68 to 70 F)/ Summer temps reach 90F though (which is 32C or thereabouts). Not as hot as California, but not so bad either. We get a lot of sunshine here, which tends to compensate for the cold in winter. Alberta is certainly an interesting place to live. I think it's a case of getting used to it. :)
I would change the temperature increments to be more inline with your temps. Maybe break up the temps every 4 degrees instead of 5 or 10. You will have more variation I think.
I am doing this for 2019. I think I'm going to do more bright vibrant colors like Royal blue, bright red, bright orange.... basically crayon colors. My sister is pregnant so I might make it a belly play blanket. This way by next year when he or she is with us for Christmas I can give it as a Christmas gift!
Love this tutorial Michael…. we are getting our first freeze warning here in northern Maryland tonight. Time I start stitching and less Bit#$ing about the weather. I may take it off my to-do list this year!
Nancy Sue That's crazy about the freeze there, I'm still living in California and it's still 80° during the day, leave our back sliding door open at night for our dogs to go out and a few windows open also. Its high 40's - 50's @ night.
Can you only do one temperature a day, or can you choose to do more? I'm about to start mine, but it's probably only going to cover 7-8 months. Its a memorial blanket that shows my grandpas battle with cancer. Since it won't cover a full year, and the weather has been pretty crazy in Houston the past few months, I was thinking of doing the high and low of each day and maybe the daily average as well. I'm just not sure if it would ruin the effect.
My question is simply if doing the temps of the day, how many stitches do you do for a single day? I mean, my temps can jump by 20 degrees in one day, which would put me in a different color, and then fall back down 20 degrees the next. So, again, how many stitches per day, or is it by ROW? Not knowing how to do this (and I cannot find the answer on a plethora of temperature blanket videos either), is stopping me from starting my blanket. I follow you, Mikey, all the time, for obvious reasons. Thank you!
I don't know if you ever got an answer for this, but the number of stitches you do for a single day is the width you decided on for your blanket. For example, if you wanted to make a blanket that had a width of, let's say, 200 stitches, then that's how many stitches you would do for a single day.
I saw one that they did a row for each day but went by the hourly temp, so each row was 24 different sections. It would be a lot of work but I think it would be cool for places that have huge temperature changes throughout the day!
A coworker and I both started these this week for the new year and it appears we will never get below the greens lol, it's been 68-81 so far here in the Charleston area.
I plan to make the temperature blanket but the country I lived in doesn't have 4 seasons 😂 cause it's always sunny! So I had to use 4 different orange and yellow yarns 😂.
I'm from phoenix Arizona so almost all year its hot meaning 90° to 110° Fahrenheit except in winter. its only about 40° to 60° Fahrenheit in the morning and night then 80° to 95° Fahrenheit in the afternoon
You are right. It's just a spectrum afghan picture. The picture is just a representation of the rainbow of colours in an afghan. Everyone's temperature afghan would be different based on where you live.
Hi, I'm about to start one of these, think they are a fab idea! I'm not sure how much yarn to get tho. I'm planning on doing the double using 5mm hook with 100g DK. Roughly how many rows do you think I'd get out of 1 ball of yarn?
How many rows do you recommend per day? I've read 1-3. Then I looked up more youtube videos. I found a video of a girl who made one and said hers ended up nearly 10 feet long, but she doesn't specify how many rows per day she did - 1, 2, or 3. I looked at a scarf that my mom crochet for me. 100 rows was about 9in. 9 x 3.65 (or 365 rows) gave me about 32 inches or just under 3 ft. So I figure if I did 3 rows each day it would be about 8 ft. You said yours was 10 ft? So how many rows per day did you do?
I'd say start with whatever temperature you feel is really cold. So if you think 40-50 degrees is super cold, make that your "cold" color, then do smaller increments up to 100 degrees or so.
Yeah like Sarah said, you could start at like 40-50 and go up to, idk, 120 and do increments of 10 or maybe even 5 degrees so you still have a range of colors in your afghan
Mikey what part of the Country do you live in Canada, and what's the climate like in your neck of the woods? I couldn't tolerate the cold weather up there. I live in California and it's 20-40° in the winter, and high 90's-115+°F in the Spring/Summertime. We had a light dusting of snow about 15 yrs ago, but I live about an hour to the mountains where it snows in the winter months. Thanks for your time and sharing!💜🖒👏👏👏
I'm going to try ths in 2018, but what i'm going to be doing is leaving the colors the way they are and just bump up the temps. I live in AZ in the US, not much call for 22F temps.
@@madreep I never finished it,(life got in the way 🤷♀️) I'm going to try again in the next year. I think I will try to get the yarn before then though.
Firul poate fi găsit pe Yarnspirations.com sau site-uri web cu amănuntul. Nu sunt sigur unde poate fi găsit în Europa. - The yarn can be found at Yarnspirations.com or retail websites. I am unsure where in Europe it can be found.
I'm making one for the year I was born and entering it in next year's fair. Mom told me using scrap yarn is a no-no for fair projects even though I don't believe the judges are going to tell the difference. Is this true or is it a crocheter's superstition?
I'm sorry but idk how to message you. Is there a way to make a maple leaf blanket like you did with the star blanket? I can't find a pattern or video showing anything larger than a coaster. Any help from anyone would be great!
If you SC in the back loop on the first row, that row will have a finished look. This is the only row you want to do that, unless you want your afghan to have ridges.
Thank goodness, finally, for a tutorial that shows me exactly, how to start my row, and end, for a temperature blanket.
I separate my months with a black row....snow days I use white and birthdays I use a really bright color! 😉💕
I love the month idea!
That is a good idea 🧶
I've heard about this a while ago, but only just decided yesterday to have a go at it. I've been wanting to take up crochet and of course I'd want my first task to be an afghan 😂 but I've chosen more neutral colours leaning toward pastel / dusty hues. And for birthdays I'm using mustard. Separating each month with either white or grey.. I'm still deciding🤭
That's a REALLY neat idea! 👌😁
I gotta try that. I thought about using like, a Gold for birthdays maybe.
i'm glad to see this now. considering doing one for my parents who were born 90 years ago. i'll figure it out sooner or later.
I'm making a 2017 blanket that will look like a bar graph for some nerdy goodness. I'm using 12 colours and it's looking awesome!
Thank you for this useful video. I made my first temperature blanket in 2022. It was a crochet along and did the high temperature on Wednesday. I changed mine to be the high and low temp. It gave me more color variation and I enjoyed the entire process. I’m currently working on a pregnancy temperature blanket for my first grandchild. I’m using the high and low weekly temperatures. I’m also doing a second one for the year. They are addicting!
Thanks for the info and tips on how best to do this type of afghan.
I never heard of this blanket before and I've been crocheting for years. I just watched Mikey and found it very interesting. Going to make it next year when I retire.
One of the favorite afghans I've ever made and watched you explain things very well
Thank you so very much, Mikey, for posting this ahead of time. The end of the year is fast approaching and I think you've given me my new project.
Just now finding this tutorial and I am making a blanket for my best friend’s first baby, starting at the day she was born. So excited to see how it turns out and this tutorial made it easy for me to understand since I’m still a beginner. Thank you!
My pleasure. Please enjoy your weekend.
My fiance and I recieved one of these Christmas 2018 he proposed that day and the afghan was the colors of the year we met/started dating. There was a sparkly silver line for our anniversary. Its amazing!!
This is what I want to do! Do the year my hubby and I got married and do a sparkly line for our wedding day and then a sparkly version of the color of the day showing our kid's birthdays. 😊
@@amyladwig2284 that so pretty!
That sounds so pretty!
Thank you for all those nice tutorials you are a great teacher. By the way.... I am in love with the way you use to laugh.
This is probably the best explained temperature blanket video I've watched. As far as explanation, it's so much easier doing a single or half double crochet or even a double crochet. Compared to all the other temperature videos blankets out there. I like how you weaved in your ends over the top of the rows. That way no tails to be weaved in later. Thank you for this tutorial, I'm hoping I can get a copy of the charts you showed. On the temperature and hook size and stitch chart.
Here in Alabama, Monday is 20° and Friday is 70°. My afghan would be crazy looking, but colorful.
Lol same
Same for Florida, the weather can't decide to stay within one season for more than a few days lol
Same in Texas lol February of 2021 was horrible where I live, 10 straight days below freezing.
super excited to try this going into 2021!
I've always wanted to do one! I think this is the year!
Meravigliosa !!!!!!!! buon lavoro teacher!
I was thinking of doing this but with 2 yarns - one for the temperature and one for precipitation. Like a sparkly white for snow, sparkly blue for frost, plain white for hail, blue for light rain, dark blue for heavy rain. Maybe grey if its overcast but not raining.
Interesting idea
Excited to be doing this blanket now!! Great tutorial! Love your videos. Always so helpful.
Such a good tutorial! Thanks for all your hard work with that super helpful chart.
Made my son a birth year blanket from the day he was born until his first birthday. I used only antique white, blues and greys...his bedroom colors.
My thought would be cool on a c2c
Mikey this is really cool.. But like you we are up north, not in Canada, but Maine.. I think it would be really cool, and add some texture if on a snowy day, you did the purple and white together.. and in the summer maybe a grey added for rain and or thunderstorms. This is one of the things I love the most living in Maine, we never know what the day will bring.. This year we had over 45 days in the 80's and 90's, We never know what we are going to get. We are pleased now with this rain, this drought we have has got to go... But back to the blanket, I think it would be cool to add other colors to the main colors for snow, rain, humidity.. whatever..... Now to decide what yarn to use starting New Years Day..
Thank You so much for the neat idea!!!!
Fantastic looking and fun afghan. Now to check colours that I have. :) Temperatures in southern Alberta range from 30 C in summer to -40 C in winter, so this could get interesting. Maybe I'll need to only add rows once or twice a week... cause 365 rows sounds like the blanket would end up gigantic. LOL But it might make a really interesting wall hanging if I kept the width more receiving blanket size. Hmm... I have to go think about this. :)
I would consider every other day to knock the rows in half. Me more manageable.
June Vollans Geez it doesn't sound like you guys have a time to even thaw out from the Winter months. I live in California and where I live we have temps of 20-40 Fahrenheit in Winter to 100-115+ in the Spring/Summertime. Today it was 88°F. I can't wait until it really cools off for a change! I couldn't function with where you live, that's extremely Cold!😊
It certainly can be. -40 C is -40 F, so it can get really cold at times. And generally we get a good lot of snow as well. But it can be very beautiful in winter, especially when a hore frost happens. Then all of the trees and bushes are covered with the most lovely frost and it's very magical. Then of course we get Chinook winds in the winter and all of the snow can go away and temperatures rise to the 20s C (68 to 70 F)/ Summer temps reach 90F though (which is 32C or thereabouts). Not as hot as California, but not so bad either. We get a lot of sunshine here, which tends to compensate for the cold in winter. Alberta is certainly an interesting place to live. I think it's a case of getting used to it. :)
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Good idea Mikey. And to set up a chart of temperature ranges that make it doable. :)
Maybe make a scarf?
I live in Phoenix where it barely falls below 105 in the summer but winter can be in the 40’s but usually 60’s. I think I should try this.
I would change the temperature increments to be more inline with your temps. Maybe break up the temps every 4 degrees instead of 5 or 10. You will have more variation I think.
I am doing this for 2019. I think I'm going to do more bright vibrant colors like Royal blue, bright red, bright orange.... basically crayon colors. My sister is pregnant so I might make it a belly play blanket. This way by next year when he or she is with us for Christmas I can give it as a Christmas gift!
Great job on the blanket
I have the opposite problem, I live in Florida
sorry you have to deal with soooo much humidity
I live in South Georgia
This is such a nice idea for an afghan :)
New Subscriber.......loving this channel....Greeting from Michigan, USA
Love this tutorial Michael…. we are getting our first freeze warning here in northern Maryland tonight. Time I start stitching and less Bit#$ing about the weather. I may take it off my to-do list this year!
Ok, who am I kidding.. I love the cold!!!
Nancy Sue That's crazy about the freeze there, I'm still living in California and it's still 80° during the day, leave our back sliding door open at night for our dogs to go out and a few windows open also. Its high 40's - 50's @ night.
What an awesome concept. Love it :)
I want to try this come Jan 1st. Love your videos Mikey!
hello thank you great video.
Jaydainstiches has a granny square version as well.
Cute idea 💕
I am thinking of doing a shorter Afghan by doing two rows a week. Or two days a week making the blanket about 3 yards long at the end of the year.
I love this idea! :)
Can you only do one temperature a day, or can you choose to do more? I'm about to start mine, but it's probably only going to cover 7-8 months. Its a memorial blanket that shows my grandpas battle with cancer. Since it won't cover a full year, and the weather has been pretty crazy in Houston the past few months, I was thinking of doing the high and low of each day and maybe the daily average as well. I'm just not sure if it would ruin the effect.
sorry to reply si late, that sounds like a great idea
I really like this idea, I stuck with the Temps provided, but I know I won't see too much red in it XD
My question is simply if doing the temps of the day, how many stitches do you do for a single day? I mean, my temps can jump by 20 degrees in one day, which would put me in a different color, and then fall back down 20 degrees the next. So, again, how many stitches per day, or is it by ROW? Not knowing how to do this (and I cannot find the answer on a plethora of temperature blanket videos either), is stopping me from starting my blanket. I follow you, Mikey, all the time, for obvious reasons. Thank you!
I don't know if you ever got an answer for this, but the number of stitches you do for a single day is the width you decided on for your blanket. For example, if you wanted to make a blanket that had a width of, let's say, 200 stitches, then that's how many stitches you would do for a single day.
@@abeiradapraia Oh, okay. I get it. I did start a C2C temp blanket instead as I had not heard back. But, it's okay, I will try this next year. Thanks!
I saw one that they did a row for each day but went by the hourly temp, so each row was 24 different sections. It would be a lot of work but I think it would be cool for places that have huge temperature changes throughout the day!
A coworker and I both started these this week for the new year and it appears we will never get below the greens lol, it's been 68-81 so far here in the Charleston area.
I plan to make the temperature blanket but the country I lived in doesn't have 4 seasons 😂 cause it's always sunny! So I had to use 4 different orange and yellow yarns 😂.
I'm from phoenix Arizona so almost all year its hot meaning 90° to 110° Fahrenheit except in winter. its only about 40° to 60° Fahrenheit in the morning and night then 80° to 95° Fahrenheit in the afternoon
Well I made the blanket from the picture...from the wrap from a skein of yarn. This picture doesn't have anything to do with a temperature blanket.
You are right. It's just a spectrum afghan picture. The picture is just a representation of the rainbow of colours in an afghan. Everyone's temperature afghan would be different based on where you live.
I'm thinking about doing two blankets, one for the first half and the second half.
Hi, I'm about to start one of these, think they are a fab idea! I'm not sure how much yarn to get tho. I'm planning on doing the double using 5mm hook with 100g DK. Roughly how many rows do you think I'd get out of 1 ball of yarn?
How long would you recommend following the weather? Is this supposed to be for a whole year? A season? A month?
For 2023, I will be doing a slip stich line of either black or white to indicate the change of season. i.e. 3/21, 6/21, 9/21 and 12/21.
How many rows do you recommend per day? I've read 1-3. Then I looked up more youtube videos. I found a video of a girl who made one and said hers ended up nearly 10 feet long, but she doesn't specify how many rows per day she did - 1, 2, or 3. I looked at a scarf that my mom crochet for me. 100 rows was about 9in. 9 x 3.65 (or 365 rows) gave me about 32 inches or just under 3 ft. So I figure if I did 3 rows each day it would be about 8 ft. You said yours was 10 ft? So how many rows per day did you do?
I live in Texas so this would pretty much just be a red and orange afghan (unless I assigned blue and green to anything under 90°)
:-)
I'd say start with whatever temperature you feel is really cold. So if you think 40-50 degrees is super cold, make that your "cold" color, then do smaller increments up to 100 degrees or so.
Yeah like Sarah said, you could start at like 40-50 and go up to, idk, 120 and do increments of 10 or maybe even 5 degrees so you still have a range of colors in your afghan
Mikey what part of the Country do you live in Canada, and what's the climate like in your neck of the woods? I couldn't tolerate the cold weather up there. I live in California and it's 20-40° in the winter, and high 90's-115+°F in the Spring/Summertime. We had a light dusting of snow about 15 yrs ago, but I live about an hour to the mountains where it snows in the winter months. Thanks for your time and sharing!💜🖒👏👏👏
can I use any color yarn I just want a regular afghan
I am trying to start a temperature blanket.can I do a 1 row of high and 1 row of low for each day or just do a row for the high only.
I'm going to try ths in 2018, but what i'm going to be doing is leaving the colors the way they are and just bump up the temps. I live in AZ in the US, not much call for 22F temps.
How did yours turn out? I'm in AZ as well, thinking about using the low temperatures instead of the highs to possibly get more variation
@@madreep I never finished it,(life got in the way 🤷♀️) I'm going to try again in the next year. I think I will try to get the yarn before then though.
Hi.if u use double crochet,after u turn and do one chain,do u still slip.stich before start the double crochet?
Is there a way to do a history temperature blanket from the year 1972
Maybe a I'll do it in a rectangle shawl... maybe for 2017 start on Jan 1...
I was wondering if it's possible to have the same chain count and use the moss stitch?
do I have to do it for the temperature I know what that's what it. was made for but I was thinking to do some thing else with this design
Mikey, do you know that the link in the description doesn't work, it comes up with "Error establishing a data base connection".
OUr website is down at this time. I'm not sure what is wrong but have contracted a programmer to help me fix it. I'm really sorry.
Thank you for replying. No problem. :)
Superb. Unde gasesc ata dv.?
Firul poate fi găsit pe Yarnspirations.com sau site-uri web cu amănuntul. Nu sunt sigur unde poate fi găsit în Europa. - The yarn can be found at Yarnspirations.com or retail websites. I am unsure where in Europe it can be found.
I'm making one for the year I was born and entering it in next year's fair. Mom told me using scrap yarn is a no-no for fair projects even though I don't believe the judges are going to tell the difference. Is this true or is it a crocheter's superstition?
Hi how many rows would you do per day?
I'm sorry but idk how to message you. Is there a way to make a maple leaf blanket like you did with the star blanket? I can't find a pattern or video showing anything larger than a coaster. Any help from anyone would be great!
Why single crochet in the back loop only in the first row? Do you continue in back loops? I'm a little unclear on this point.
If you SC in the back loop on the first row, that row will have a finished look. This is the only row you want to do that, unless you want your afghan to have ridges.
You can always find historical temperature data for each day in your area.
That's true. I leave it to people to investigate that for themselves.
How big do these end up being?
would love to know how to get data from past years. Does anyone know how?
I'd like to know the answer to this too, I've been looking online but cant come up with anything :( I'm in the UK
Weather underground has historical as well as current weather information for many parts of the world if not world wide.
Where can I get your charts?
free pattern?
yep, in the more information of this video is a link.
:( not finding it