One row per day, color by the weather — three ready-made color scales and all the math to plan your year blanket.
A temperature blanket is a year-long diary you can hug: one row per day, the color picked by that day's high temperature. The concept is simple — the failure mode is planning. Pick too many shades and it turns to mud; too few and the seasons blur together. These three scales are pre-balanced so the blanket stays readable from January to December.
Each chart below shows a full scale and a sample layout. Adapt the ranges to your climate (the FAQ has the method), or chart your own scale in the generator.
The traditional blue-to-red scale in 10 shades — enough resolution to see a heat wave, few enough to stay coherent.
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Soft nursery-friendly pastels. Fewer, broader bands — the calmest-looking temperature blanket.
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Rich jewel tones from magenta-cold to sapphire-warm — the dramatic option, and the best at hiding slight tension wobbles.
Download chart (PNG) ⬇️Choose one of the three scales, then map its shades to your local temperatures — 5–8°F (3–4°C) per band is the sweet spot for most climates.
One single crochet row per day at 120 stitches is ~10 minutes. Moss stitch and linen stitch also work beautifully and grow slower.
Write the day's high in a tracker (a note on your phone works). Catch up weekly — the blanket forgives a busy weekend, not a lost month.
Have a photo you love? The free generator turns it into a stitch-ready chart — grid, palette, and stitch counts included.
A year-long project where you crochet one row (or two) every day, choosing the color from a fixed scale based on that day's high temperature. By December 31st the blanket is a stripe-by-stripe record of your local weather.
For a daily single crochet row at throw width (120–150 stitches) in worsted: roughly 2,500–3,500 yards total. Buy one skein per shade to start, restock the mid-range shades mid-year — those always run out first.
Look up last year's daily highs for your city and divide the spread into bands of 5–8°F (3–4°C) each. More bands in the temps you get most often — if your year is mostly 60–80°F, split that range finely and give extremes one shade each.
Single crochet is the classic: one row per day keeps the blanket near 48–55 inches long by year's end. Linen/moss stitch is prettier and denser but slower; Tunisian simple stitch is fast and flat. Avoid tall stitches — 365 rows of double crochet becomes a bedspread.
Yes — start on any meaningful date (birthday, anniversary, New Year is just tradition). A 'year of our baby' or 'year one of marriage' blanket runs from date to date the same way.