Has anyone made a temperature blanket?

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I'd like to try a temperature blanket but don't want to end up with some huge, unwieldy thing. I've seen so many pictures on line of behemoth blankets with a row per day or 2 rows for maximum/minimum temps.

Has anyone made a smallish (say lap quilt sized) blanket, and what pattern did you use?

No. I'm put off by how huge they are. If you even just do one row a day that's 365 rows. I know by day 12 I would already be a week behind!

I did! It’s on my DD’s bed. I did one row a day (with the max temp) so it’s not massive.

I did get a bit behind, but I kept track of the temps on each date (and websites can tell you historically if you forget to check) so it wasn’t too hard to catch up.

I’ve made several. It depends on which stitch you use as to how long they end up.

Maybe do one where you use weekly temperatures and do three rows per week - the lowest, highest and the average temps.

I seen someone do a scarf instead, it was actually really cute x

I did one with crocheted interlocked rings for each day so it wasn't too big. It's bigger than a lap blanket though. You could take average temps for fewer rows?

How are you going to make it? Knitting/crochet/quilting? If crochet you could do a small granny square per day with min temp for inner and max temp for outside.

I thought about doing one a few years ago but what put me off was how undifferentiated the weather is in Ireland, the particular year that I was considering started with a very warm winter.

Thank you for lots of ideas. BlackAmericano, I'm planning on crochet. I've seen the granny square ones, perhaps with a 3mm hook. The nicest ones have a border round each square which looks nice, but obvs increases the size.
Mostlygrannysquares, I don’t suppose you'd be willing to post a pic of your blanket?
Dontcomeatme, I'd thought about a scarf but had visions of Tom Baker 😁
MadisonAvenue, I hadn't thought about weekly - that would certainly reduce the size.
Shesthealbatross, I found temps on Accuweather so even (when) I get behind I've still got a record.
Myotherprofile, it wad the thought of 365 rows that was putting me off!

I'm making one! I'm enjoying it but I'm a bit behind as crocheting during a heatwave doesn't appeal. I know I'll catch up though, I quite like doing several rows rather than one row a day. It's quite fun planning it I chose the colours with my son and he tracks the temperature for me.

How many colours are you using? I've earmarked 15, so one for every 3® or thereabouts.

I did this one in 2023. It was only 3 rounds per square (I think). I used join as you go so no sewing up. I joined it diagonally rather than in rows. And of course June has 31 days for some reason...

Oh and my DD made temperature snakes which was fun!

I don’t think I took a picture of the completed blanket but I’ve got some in progress and the colours I used - I added a row inbetween each month but if you omitted it, the blanket would be even more compact. I used this pattern mcrochetm-blogspot-com.translate.goog/2015/03/blog-post.html?m=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

I love those interlocking rings @MostlyGrannySquares

Oh, these are all really great, and very different to what I was thinking of doing. Will investigate further.

I was once in a Facebook group about temperature blankets - such variety! Worth joining if you're on Facebook - research is easy on there!

Thank you - it was a fun make 🥰

I bet! I'd like to give that a go.