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What's the difference?
What's the difference?
During the month of January, I crocheted one row a day that captured the maximum daily temperature, comparing the recorded temperature from 1971 side-by-side with the temperature from this year (2021). This gave visitors something new to see each day as they walked on by our house.
Check out the images and final product!
The front door
The front door
This is how all of the information presented in the images below was organized on the front door, putting the crocheted piece in the middle.
Color scale for yarn
Color scale for yarn
A color scale was assigned to 5-degree segments of temperature. This determined which yarn to use for each date.
Tracking temperature
Tracking temperature
The maximum daily temperatures were put on the door from 1971 but then added each day for 2021, building the record throughout the month.
How it started...
How it started...
I crocheted one row per day, with the left-half of the row representing the recorded daily maximum temperature from 1971, and the right-half of the same row documenting the temperature recorded from the day before. Row by row (day by day), this display was built out.
...and how it ended!
...and how it ended!
This is the final product! The colder temperatures at the end of January 2021 match the multi-day snowstorm we received (which is why I left the display up two weeks into February, for the neighborhood walkers to come back and take a look!).
If you want to learn how to obtain your own temperature records to knit your own scarf, or crochet your own blanket, visit Q&A of how to make a temperature blanket, or scarf, or… To see another example of a temperature blanket, see one that was made as a baby gift and one to celebrate an organization's anniversary.
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