Almost halfway 2017 I found the temperature chart of my temperature scarf of 2016. I kind of lost it and this afternoon I found and made it the header picture.
What you see in the header picture are the Summer months. So I wanted to share the whole chart:
Have a nice weekend!
Remember the temperature scarf I have finished on December 31st?
In the group on Facebook called Temperature Blanket Yarn-Along there was a
*****END OF 2016 COVER PHOTO CONTEST*****
Everyone please post your finished 2016 projects below in the comments of this post.
Then everyone can place their votes by clicking “like” on your favourites!
I will leave voting open until 10:00AM PST on January 2, 2017.
Good luck everyone! Post those projects!!!
And yes of course I posted my scarf…
And I got 43 likes!
That was not all, because yesterday this was posted:
This is sooo nice. The temperature scarf gave me lots of knitting enjoyment during 2016: seeing it grow day-by-day, week-by-week, month-by-month was so much fun. It inspired me to start this blog for other knitters to find the pattern in 1 place and not scattered in different posts on Facebook. And to top it all I won the END OF 2016 COVER PHOTO CONTEST with 2 other winners.
Who knows where this will take me next …
#happydance!
I did it! My year long project of 2016 is finished. I cannot wait to use my temperature scarf. Love-love-love-it.
Beware … long post …
In December 2015 I found a group on Facebook called Temperature Blanket Yarn-Along. A bunch of enthusiastic crocheters from all over the world who were to crochet a temperature blanket in 2016. Because I had crochet several blankets already I wanted to play along with something else.
I chose to knit a scarf. It would be simple and long. I estimated it would be about 3,5 or 4 meters long. I like long scarfs. I still have one I knitted in 1980/81. Perfect protection against snow while riding my bike!
I set down with my chosen colors all around me on the floor to decide the color palette.
And so I started knitting.
And it did not work. It did not work 3 times. Because colors did not feel right, pink was the wrong color for 4ºC. So I set to work on my 4th and final color palette. And that is what I sticked with.
I made a temperature table to keep track of the temperatures by day. And to mark them when I had knitted them. Nothing fancy just the back of the color palette. But a perfect way of keeping track of where I am.
Cast on 100 stitches on 2 bended double pointed needles. Knit with needle no 3. This way the scarf will already get into ‘shape’. After a few rows you put up a mark between the first and last stitches with a different color yarn. Put a knot in this yarn.
(*)
Start with January 1st = 2 rows of the chosen color + 1 row Wolvega. Knit all the days of the month. Knit 5 rows Wolvega. Repeat from (*).
After December 31st end with knitting 5 rows Wolvega, 1 row Barneveld, 5 rows Wolvega.
Take a deep breath … you did it. Well done!
(**) For closing your scarf you take the 3,5 mm crochet hook (make sure you hold your yarn under the hook). Take up 1 stitch of the back needle, 1 stitch of the front needle and crochet them together. Work towards the end of the stitches. Weave in the end.
You’re not done yet. Sorry. Remember the other end, the beginning of your scarf? It still has to be closed. So go back there and pick up 100 stitches. Divide the stitches over 2 needles. Knit 1 row. Close this end the same as the other side. See (**)
And now you ARE done.
Congratulations!
If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
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