For the month of June 2022, half of all sales of this pattern will be donated to the Climate Justice Alliance.

The Fever Cowl features stripes representing the average annual Earth’s Temperature since 1880 (for land and water) and visually demonstrates climate change. This work was inspired directly by the data visualization work of Ed Hawkins and his Show Your Stripes project, although I’m using a US based data source.

The pattern is written for nine colors, four cool, four warm and one neutral. Three rows of each color, represents a temperature anomaly of 0.16 °C or about 0.28°F. The data comes from the mean annual land and ocean temperature for 1880-2021 from the United States’ National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The National Centers for Environmental Information defines the term temperature anomaly as “a departure from a reference value or long-term average. A positive anomaly indicates that the observed temperature was warmer than the reference value, while a negative anomaly indicates that the observed temperature was cooler than the reference value.”

This is the # of 87 gram mini skins required per color, along with the total expected number of yards.

CC1 1 70
CC2 2 127
CC3 2 123
CC4 2 86 (I said two, because yarn chicken).
CC5 1 49
CC6 1 37
CC7 1 53
CC8 1 12
CC9 1 25