Stitching the Seasons: Tracking Climate with a Temperature Blanket (6 Months In 2024)

Getting Started (See Getting Started 2024 Blog Post)

I started crocheting last year with my daughter, we share our makes on instagram @ourcrochetlife, usually I use super chunky & size 15mm hook. I am using 2 strands of DK & a 10mm & HDC for this project as I love the rhythm of the stitch and cost wise DK is cheaper and come in much longer lengths. 

I picked just 5 colours as temperature doesn’t change much in Scotland. There are so many ideas you can do with these blankets and so fun to see how the temperature changes in the garden over the year.

Picked Our Colours & Decided On A Stitch 

As the first permaculture principle is to Observe and Interact, I feel we’re covering that with the weather this last year.

DETAILS: This is what I’m using on this one: To make a single bed sized blanket
🧶2 strands of DK (to make chunky)
🧶10mm Hook
🧶100 stitches across 
🧶HDC stitch
🧶Recording highest temp of each day

What have we changed from last year?
Only using 100 stitches across this time as I want them to be used in the living room as lap blankets in the cold weather. Last year we used 150 and made them big enough for double bed bedspreads.

GAUGE: I Picked just 5 colours as I wanted to be able to look at a glance at what range it was next year. 
🧶Under 0° White (cold/snow temps)
🧶1-6 Grey (frost temps)
🧶7-13 Green (low temps)
🧶14-20 Soft Pink (warm temps) 
🧶Over 21 Raspberry (hot temps)

What have we changed from last year?
Keeping the white and grey colours as I still had a bundle of them left over, but changed up the 3 other colours to suit our living room decoration.

Taking the highest temperature from each day and using that as the temperature colour I use. For example if the highest temperature of the day was 6° then I would do 1 row of Grey 

Adjusted my scale a little on the white though, to the average rather than the highest as some days it’s been -7° at night, then -3° most of the day, but for an hour or 2 its 1°, which would make it grey and I don’t feel that would represent the day, or if it has snowed that day I would pick white.

I want to look back and see the days that were solid frozen ground outside that we couldn’t plant outside- these will be white days.

Using Our Book To Record Temperature

Clayton is filling out the daily weather including the highest, lowest temps of the day. I makes him a part of this blanket this year, he has enjoyed watching me crochet and seeing it grow. This is our Sowing, Growing, Weather & Seasons Weekly Gardening Record Book that you can buy from Amazon, take a look at this record book here and all our books we have.

Temperature Blanket 2024 Jan -June

JANUARY

High: 14°c on 23rd Jan 2024 (12°c on 3rd Jan 2023)

Low: -7°c on 18th Jan 2024 (-6°c on 17th Jan 2023)

FEBRUARY

High: 12°c on 2nd Feb 2024 (12°c on 17th Feb 2023)

Low: -2°c on 8th Feb 2024. ( -4°c on 23rd Feb 2023)

MARCH

High: 15°c on 31st March 2024 (14°c on 30th March 2023)

Low: 0°c on 1st March 2024. ( -9°c on 8th March 2023)

APRIL

High: 16°c on 6th April 2024 (17°c on 17th April 2023)

Low: 0°c on 27th April 2024. ( -4°c on 25th April 2023)

MAY

High: 23°c on 11th May 2024 (24°c on 30th May 2023)

Low: 7°c on 21st May 2024 ( 3°c on 13th May 2023)

JUNE

High: 23°c on 24th June 2024 (28°c on 12th June 2023)

Low: 4°c on 12th June 2024. ( 5°c on 3rd June 2023)

Watch Video Reel For June Here

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Watch On You Tube: Our Temperature Blanket Completed. Monitoring Weather In The Garden & Crocheting A Visual Memory.

Are you doing a temperature blanket or recording the weather of any kind?

Katrina & Clayton and family live in East Ayrshire and share their daily life in the garden on instagram. They practice permaculture principles in the garden, reducing & repurposing waste whenever they can. Katrina shows how home educating in nature has helped Clayton thrive. 

Clayton Completed The 2 Grow and Learn Courses with the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. He is Autistic, Non Verbal & has been Home Educated since 2018. Katrina & Peter hold their PDC & PDC PRO Permaculture Design Course from Oregon State University. 

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