This was tremendous fun to make! It’s for a friend from the Isle of Harris. It charts the weekly average high temperatures for the Outer Hebrides, based on the data from the weather station in Stornoway. Instead of a stripe per day to make a very long scarf, I decided to do a stripe per week and make the stripes run lengthwise. The temperatures in the Hebrides don’t have an enormous range (for 2014 the lowest average high temp was 43F and the highest was 64F except for one week which was a record-breaking 72F). So instead of colour-coding it to the usual colours on weather forecasts and websites, I made up my own more varied colour-code. You can see the blistering week of 72F average knitted in red.

I discovered this pattern in the summer, so had fun making up my colour-code and knitting up the first half of the year. Once I had caught up, it was such fun to see what each week’s average had been and thus what the next colour would be. On New Year’s day 2015, my first thought was to check the high temperature for the previous day, so I could know what colour the last stripe would be!

I wove in the ends as I went - the last photo shows the wrong side where the ends are knitted in.