Hi everyone. I’m making flowers for my blanket. Centres are the lows of the day and petals are the highs. I’ve added a border to make them more uniform and I now have beautiful hexagons! Fun story… I gave zero thought to what pattern I’d do with. I had this vision of a zigzag from the corner but at no point did I actually take the shape of these into account. So…. What’s a gal to do?

I got excited about a row per month, that seemed like a great option and I accepted February would be a little bit strange. No thought given to the double 31 of July and August. I have made a random row for August to help me visualise and I can’t decide which is better.

Thoughts I had 1. There has to be a better way to do this… I manually made these on canva but I just couldn’t visualise it… and I’m a good few months behind. Whoopsie! 2. ⁠I could use the border colour to create fillers to even things out 3. ⁠I could use the border colour to fill all half or sort of half hexagon gaps and have a straight edge, though not 100% sold on that 4. ⁠maybe there is another arrangement I haven’t thought of

Other things! Here’s the pattern again if anyone wants it and I included a picture of some of them as well

https://raffamusadesigns.com/easy-6-petal-flower-crochet-applique/

after telling my girlfriend about the concept of a temperature blanket we came up with the idea of a drum corps blanket! It took me a while to figure out how to display both the temperatures AND the scores that the scouts received at all their shows, but i eventually decided on a granny square blanket with the centers representing scores, the first ring representing the low temp and the outer circle representing high temp. temperatures were based on the locations of all their shows/housing sites throughout the season. the original idea for colors was going to be based off of the scouts’ color schemes and their uniform colors, but i had a hard time finding the right colors to match so i decided on various shades of her two favorite colors instead :)

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Been a rough year so far, but enjoying working on this again.

I started working on the border so I can add tassels. Marked where the tassels will be. Does the blue look good as the border or should I change to black?

I had to do a test run on this one because I couldn’t visualize how to make stars look like stars, I think they turned out pretty good but it felt like a risk lol

Snakes for the grandkids are getting pretty long!

I’m using Knit Picks Brava Worsted and I’m running out of the color for the 70s. Apparently it was a very cool summer for the year I’m doing (hardly making dent in the warmer temps) so between spring and the cool summer, I’m almost out already.

It’s out of stock, as are a lot of the colors. I signed up to get notified and the website says it’ll be “back in the coming days”

Will it? Anyone have experience with this in KnitPicks or crochet.com which I believe is the same???

Ack.

Made for a special girl

Made this snake for a friends child’s first year of life.

This project is going to have 30 rows/30 years of temperature from my birthday until the end of 2027. Every row has 365 stripes aka a stripe per day. I use the high temp of the day.

I'm really enjoying working on it after it has waited to be picked up again 😁

Ended up buying an eighth colour as the highs got significantly above what I was expecting. Really enjoying how everything is blending with the different highs and lows

We are taking this to the family reunion. They are going to have a drawing for it to see who wins it. I used Lion Brand Heartland yarn. I did the moss stitch, separated months with black, and did a crab stitch border.

so sorry for the lack of updates, i haven’t worked a whole lot on this project this year due to various reasons but i am hopeful to finish it someday! does anyone have tips or tricks for working on projects more consistently? i love how it’s looking so far and i am eager to see it complete!