Temperature Blanket

I have decided to make a temperature blanket next year. The idea is to crochet (or knit) a row each day on a blanket. The color that you use depends on the temperature of the day. Most of the charts have 8 or 9 colors like this one:

(I even found one chart that was geared for warmer areas and the lowest temperature was 45) The problem with having so few colors is you end up with large areas of the same color. I decided to make a chart that had only 5 degrees for each color. I went through my yarn to find ones that would work and then put them in an order that looked good for a temperature scale. 

I attached little tags so I will remember which yarn is for which temperature.

Then I put the skeins into totes for easy access. I obviously won't need all of them at the same time! 

I took pictures of each of the skeins. I then edited and pasted and labeled to make a custom temperature guide.

I decided it would be fun to mark precipitation also. That lead to denoting birthdays, which led to noting holidays as well. So I went through my tatting threads to find colors to crochet along with the color of the day. 

Top row: rain, snow, ice/hail

2nd row: Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter

3rd row: 4th of July (Memorial Day/Veteran's Day), Halloween (orange and black together)

bottom row: Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays

In case you'd like to know what yarns I'm using, this is the list:

95+    : Red Heart Super Saver - Claret

90-94 : RHSS - Cherry Red

85-89 : Bernat Super Value - Peony Pink

80-84 : Bernat SV - Carrot

75-79 : RHSS - Gold

70-74 : ? Bernat or RHSS

65-69 : RHSS - Bright Yellow

60-64 : Caron One Pound Baby - Yellow

55-59 : RHSS - Spring Green

50-54 : Wintuk - Paddy Green (I couldn't find my RHSS green)

45-49 : RHSS - Dark Sage

40-44 : RHSS - Light Sage

35-39 : Bernat SV - Sky

30-34 : Caron One Pound Baby - Denim

25-29 : RHSS - Royal

20-24 : RHSS - Amethyst 

15-19 : RHSS - Lavender

10-14 : RHSS - Pale Plum

< 9      : Lion Brand Pound of Love - Lilac

95% of my yarn stash is probably Red Heart Super Saver. Mostly because they sell it at Walmart and we get a discount there. It also comes in a lot of colors. The next highest frequency of yarn types is Bernat Super Value. I tried to use as many of the same type of yarn as possible, but to get the number of colors I needed, I had to add in the others. The Caron baby yarns say they are a size 4/worsted but I think they are on the light worsted side. I'm excited to get started on my blanket! My daughter already asked me to make her one in 2018!