Plan to make a small, 6 squares blanket using the first 6 Moogly CAL 2019 patterns. Planning to make it as a temperature blanket. Each round equals one day’s high temperature.

Finished - skipped one very pretty block because I was afraid the crocodile stitches might catch Katie’s toenails.

Border is #81, one of my all-time favorites from Edie Eckman’s Around the Corner book.

Lessons learned for my next temperature squares project:

1. Don’t include squares’ “equalization” round or joins as “temperature days. Consider excluding border from temperature days as well.

2. Consider a limit # of “temperature days” used to 14 per square if squares released every other week. This was supposed to be a “winter” project - with the dates going from 12/21/18 - 3/20/19, but I wound up going from 12/21/18 to 4/7/19, because I used more days per block.

3. Plan out how squares are to be joined before starting to join. This one ended up a bit haphazard.

4. Go back a year or two and work out colors based on actual weather. Change to equalize the # of colors a bit. For this project, my coldest value was <19 degrees for the country blue. We had a warm winter and I wound up using the country blue only twice. And I used so much green, I had to buy an extra skein.

Temperature Color Chart

19 and below blue
20-33 aqua
34-47 green
48-61 cornmeal
over 61 cafe latte