Temperature Year Long Blanket

If you don't know what a temperature blanket is, it's where you take the temperature of where you live every year or day or whatever and have a chart connecting it to a color and make a blanket, or something else, corresponding with the colors. I was tagged on Facebook with this picture from Repeat Crafter Me;
I thought the idea was really cute even though it had already been February. But I didn't love the chart being it was kinda weird so I wanted to make my own, this one is not based on my average temperature but just kinda more colors and easier remember temperatures going by ten;

White <100 F°
Light Pink 90-99 F°
Pink 80-89 F°
Red 70-79 F°
Orange 60-69 F°
Yellow 50-59 F°
Green 40-49 F°
Blue 30-39 F°
Dark blue 20-29 F°
Purple 10-19 F°
Black >9 F°

I have already started January and realize I'm not completely in love with the chart if I do this again next year id recommend adding possibly one more color since I don't lobe the fact that green isn't in the center of the scale-like it is in the rainbow. Maybe more something like this;

White <100 F°
Pink 90-99 F°
Red 80-89 F°
Orange 70-79 F°
Yellow 60-69 F°
Green 50-59 F°
Blue 40-49 F°
Dark Blue 30-39 F°
Purple 20-29 F°
Dark Purple 10-19 F°
Black >9 F°

Obviously, you can change the colors and such but I like the idea of a larger range of colors but if you don't have as many if you make your own chart id love to see them in the comments!

This is a chart I made to keep track of the temperatures, I use a site like https://www.almanac.com/weather/history to check previous days since again I didn't start till later and you can start at any point.

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I decided to also include what my temperatures looked like for January;


1=51.3 °F
2=
47.2 °F
3=50.4 °F
4=
47.5 °F
5=
44.5 °F
6=
46.2 °F
7=
52.1 °F
8=
45.5 °F
9=
38.7 °F
10=
41.6 °F
11=
45.2 °F
12=
43.5 °F
13=
38.7 °F
14=
38.0 °F
15=
34.4 °F
16=
41.1 °F
17=
35.2 °F
18=
43.4 °F
19=
48.2 °F
20=
43.6 °F
21=
45.1 °F
22=
47.3 °F
23=
53.9 °F
24=
52.9 °F
25=
51.2 °F
26=
51.9 °F
27=47.5 °F
28=
50.7 °F
29=
47.7 °F
30=
46.3 °F
31=53.6 °F





And I used a simple symbol or emoji to check off when I have completed a row. I know this is a few months or so into the year but I still wanted to share what I'll be working on this year.

I really thought this idea was a good idea, it gives motivation all year long, but at the same time I don't feel like I have to finish it because it does stop at some point and I have to wait for time to keep going so I can get the numbers. I am really excited to see how this turns out, and I hope to do it again next year.

So as an update this did not work. I personally think you should make a chart more sp[esific to your area, look up average hot and cold temperatures and try and base it around those temperatures and your colors. Because when I started this one I 1; didn't keep it up because it was not in a pattern that could keep my attention, I suggest making sure it is a pattern that you can keep up and remember you have to do it for a year, even if it is not conventional. 2; My colors started in the middle of the chart because it was just from zero degrees to over one hundred degrees when where I live it never gets to those on average, make sure to take that into consideration if you want to use all your colors, I did, in fact, make a new chart for the next year and I did use a granny square which I talk about more in my other post. This definitely will be a yearly thing maybe changing up the colors or if I want to do the highest or lowest instead of average like this year. I definitely now thinking and typing this want to make a temperature tag on my blog because there will be updates and a new yearly idea and the final completion and I think it will be a great tag to check out! I think this is going to be really cool and I cant wait to make it and have a new awesome tab, you can find it on the side or right at the bottom of this post before the other recommended posts.

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