One week into retirement, my sister told me about a temperature quilt she was sewing. (What a lot of work!)
I thought, “Oh! I can do that with crotchet.”
After some Google-ing, I chose the pattern I would use for my Retirement Temperature Blanket. Rather than starting on January 1st, my start date is February 23rd – my first day of retirement.
This is how a temperature blanket works – you do one row a day and the colour used for that row is determined by the high temperature of the day. (There are some patterns that include the low temperature if that is what you would like to do.)
This is where I found the pattern I am using. https://www.handylittleme.com/temperature-blanket-patterns/ (Being new at this, I don’t know if this link will work.)
I am loving doing my Temperature Blanket. In fact, I am slightly obsessed – but in a nice way. The first thing I do each morning, even before I get up, is to check the high temp of the previous day. I am always excited when I can use a colour I haven’t used for a while. 😊
I decided to use the colours of the rainbow. As a child I learnt the colours as – Rinse Your Greasy Bottles In Vim 😅 i.e. Red Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet. (I added Orange between red and yellow.) The silver is for rainy or snowy days.
Some of the colours I already had in my stock of yarns and some I had to buy. If we ever have a day cold enough for Violet (3-6°C), it’s going to be pink because I already had pink 😊
I am finding it great therapy – relaxing, pleasurable, colourful.
And there is no pressure as I have a whole year to complete it.
