So 2020 is over, but it has me thinking. I do that sometimes. A lot of people agree that it was not a great year. A lot have people use stronger language when expressing how they feel about 2020. What most people can agree on is that 2020 was a year of change, on a global level and a personal level. I'm a knitter, and sometimes a dyer. I'm not going to recap all the social and political and personal ramifications of 2020. I'm gonna knit a blanket. A temperature blanket. I'm gonna dye the yarn for the blanket. It's going to be about change.
If you knit or crochet and are on the internet you have seen temperature blankets. I'm not reinventing the spinning wheel. The first thing you need for a temperature blanket is data points, which in most cases is a temperature on any given day at a specific time, or maybe the high or low for that day. Maybe both. Here where I am in Virginia, especially in the spring and fall, the temperature swings can be impressive. A heavy sweatshirt in the morning and a t-shirt in the afternoon, or vice versa if a front sweeps into the area. So, I decided my data points would be the difference in the high and low temps of each day.
I did a quick check to see what kind of range I would get, and by quick I mean I checked the highs and lows for the first and fifteenth of every month in 2020. Then math.
The day with the least change was August 15th, a change of 4 degrees.
The day with the most change was November 15th, a change of 29 degrees.
By breaking that down into five degree increments that gives me six sections to represent with colors. Now we go to the swatches.
Yes, I swatch my dyes. Knitted swatches. Don't judge.
I love it.
This is getting long and we haven't even thought about a pattern yet. Next post will be about the dye process. With more pictures.
Blessed Be.
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