This pattern is also available for FREE on my website HERE.

Commemorate baby’s first year with the honeycomb crochet temperature baby blanket! Change colors each row based on the daily high temperature, and you’ll create a finished project bursting with wild and fun color changes.

You can choose to make your blanket for baby’s first year beginning with his or her birthday, or you can start on January 1 of the year baby is born no matter the birthday! If you choose the January 1 start date and baby isn’t due until June for example, I think this would be a wonderful pregnancy project!

This blanket is for a little girl with an October 31 birthday. Since it’s so late in the year, I began the blanket on her birthday and ended the day before she turned a year old.

This article includes the pattern, tips for planning your temperature baby blanket, and monthly progress photos. I’ve also linked to a step-by-step photo tutorial of the honeycomb stitch and a video of me teaching this stitch for a FaveCrafts Studio LIVE class.

I hope you enjoy this project!

Abbreviations

ch(s): chain(s)
fsc: foundation single crochet
pm: place marker in the stitch you just created
rep: repeat
rnd: round
rs: right side
sc: single crochet
sl st(s): slip stitch(es)
ws: wrong side

Special Stitch

Spike st: Insert your hook into the stitch 2 rows below the next st. Pull up a loop to the height of the working row. Yo and pull through the two loops to complete the sc.

Materials

Baby Bee Sweet Delight Weight 3 Light (60% Acrylic, 40% Polyamide, 377yds/345m, 4oz/113g):
1 skein naked (90+ degrees)
3 skeins pink-a-boo (80-89 degrees)
3 skeins boo pink (70-79 degrees)
2 skeins bashfull (60-69 degrees)
2 skeins gingerbread (50-59 degrees)
2 skeins sand castle (40-49 degrees)
2 skeins green light (30-39 degrees)

1 skeins baby sage (<29 degrees)

Size 7/4.5mm crochet hook
Scissors
Stitch markers
Tapestry needle for weaving in ends