Does anyone have a good list of cheap-ish yarn for a temperature blanket? I’ve always wanted to make one and I think this is the year.
Do you do just the high temperatures,? The hubby wants me to split it down the middle and make two halves, one for highs, one for lows. Not sure how I feel about that. I’d rather have just one or the other I suppose.
Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks!
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Oh I’ve seen so many different types. To go off your highs/lows ideas… I’ve seen where some do like a granny square (any shape really) and the center rounds are the lows and the outer rounds are the highs, or vice versa.
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Oh I like that idea. I’ll do some more research. I was hoping someone had a great list of colors to share. 
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I think I looked in Pinterest for my inspirations. I still have yet to make one! 
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You can look at the range of colors of yarn from Premier. Nice function is you can save a color and compare it to other colors,
The above comes out to 10 cents a yard, and has a wide range of colors,
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Thank you!
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Most of the ones I’ve seen assigned a decade of temps to one color, because some places get quite the swing. The most interesting I saw was the idea for places where the weather doesn’t change much, they broke it into 5degrees per color and used yarn with many colors in the same tone.
I do like the thought of the granny squares… But I would do the offset squares with the high in the corner, so that every square looked like a mini sunrise/sunset painting
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So the first warning I’m going to give is This can get huge!! I would actually recommend using a thinner yarn like sport to keep it a reasonable size, but it is ultimately up to you…
As for colors, I started one using the typical “rainbow” idea where blue is the coldest and red is the hottest, and honestly I’m not in love with it… So when I decided to make one for my son, I had him pick the colors he wanted that he could find in Woolike (it’s a fingering weight, but I plan to make hexi-flats, which are the hexipuffs from the beekeeper’s quilt not stuffed)… His will still be super colorful as Woolike is somewhat limited in color ranges and he LOVES color… If i make another for myself, I’ll do a “theme”; probably shades of reds, greys, and black…
As mentioned below, if you live in a place that you don’t get a wide temperature range, you can alter your scale to get the most out of all of your colors… For instance, for San Diego I’d do my range starting at anything below 50° is the first color, the last color represent anything over 80°, and divide the rest of your colors between those remaining 30°
Finally, a compromise you could do with your husband is use the average temp OR use the highs in the spring and summer and lows in fall winter…
I hope you share your progress, I love seeing these!
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I made a scarf one year. You can make the chart however you would like.
I like the idea that your hubby has an opinion. I think that could be cool. (pun somewhat intended.) Ha.
This is a scarf I made with the temps. I made the black line in between the months. I made the special stitch (holey row if you look close), on my birthday. 
Another scarf made with c2c. Not sure why I don’t have a finished photo … (maybe I didn’t finish it … 
Looks like I did January, with one square per day, black for the end of the month again.
This is the chart I made with the yarn I had, which was Paintbox cotton dk:
You might have to adjust the temps if you don’t get below 30 or above 100. I barely used any on either end, so if I did it again, I would make it a little different to include those colors better.
You could make 2 separate blankets, one with just highs, one with lows. So many options.
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To limit the size, you can also do one square/row per week instead of day, using the average for week
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Make your own, like this. You could use just the colors you have that way. And adjust the temps to your area.
Many options online. Search for temperature blanket color charts.
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I made a temperature blanket in 2021 to get through an event I was dreading.
I did a row a day and used highs and lows
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I’m making one for my son who just became a Marine. My goal is to have it done by the time he graduates from his schooling so he can take it to his permanent duty station. Thank goodness he chose a job with a year of school! I used the average weekly temperatures from his birth year (with a few extra squares to complete the blanket) and the colors for the Marines.
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Thank you so much everyone!! This is great! So many great ideas! I live in southern IL. We can get a pretty wide swing of temps here.
Thank you! I feel so supported here!
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I have a friend who has been working on a temperature blanket this past year, and she did the low, average, and highs for each day. She did the average in the middle and the low on one side of the average and the high on the other side of the average. I don’t remember what yarn she used, but it was definitely on the thinner side! Whatever you choose to do will be beautiful, be creative! Hope it all goes well with what you decide to do 
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Overall, after reading everyone’s reply, there is more information on temperature blankets than there should be.
(Some of you will “get it”). 
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I am using Caron Simply Soft for my 2022 blanket and it’s working up really nice. I got all of my yarn through Joann’s. They usually either have sales or coupons to help with the cost.
I did the high temps but have seen people do it both ways.
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It’s all going to depend on what you like. What colors? How many? It’s also going to depend on your temps. Do they change a lot, or not much at all? Are you going to want a lot of color changes? You don’t have to do a whole rainbow, either. I’ve seen just an array of all blues. Here are some things in Pinterest, but there’s SO MUCH MORE.
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That is fabulous!
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