Temp Quilt Update

These are the months of September, October and November.  The upper left hand side of each square is the day's high and the low is on the bottom right.  Now that the days are getting colder, more colors are being added and it's starting to look like I envisioned at the start of this project.

A reminder of the colors for each temperature-
All temps are Fahrenheit
50-55 lt. pink
56-59  Bright pink
60-65 light green
66-69 med. green
70-75 lt. yellow
76-79 bright yellow
80-85 lt. orange
86-89 dark orange
90 and above will be reds...hopefully, I won't be using those for a while!  The 40's and below will be aquas, purples and blues.

The two days in the bottom center with the dark aqua and the dark purple represent temps of 49/38F and 48/36F.  So far, December has had some nights below freezing so more colors coming. The grey patches are the beginning of each month.  I'm planning on embroidery the month's name on them at the end of this project.

Linking with Sarah Did It, Finish or Not Friday

Temperature Quilt Progress

My temperature record for the month of September...my starting month.  The first three days of October are also included.  I haven't been making daily blocks, but trying to do  four or five at a time.  I was thinking that a lot of the days would be in my same range-therefore letting me make four at a time but that hasn't been holding true.  The grey at the beginning and in the middle are the beginning of the months...later, I'm intending to embroider the month's name on them to make it less confusing to look back on.

The HST show the high and lows of each day.  For the month of September, except for a spike at the beginning and the end of the month, most days were below the average highs and the lows were also slightly above the average.  My original post shows the colors I assigned to each temperature.

91 Blocks!!  Only a couple more blocks to go to reach 100.  I'm getting very tired of my chosen colors and fabrics but I can stick it out for another week..I'm going to try some retail therapy tomorrow and see if I can find something to inspire me for the last couple of blocks.

Linking with Sarah Did It for the temperature quilt and Oh Scrap!

A New Year.. A New Project

No matter what the calendar says, September seems like the beginning of a new year to me. Too many years in school, perhaps, but January has never felt like a beginning....it's the middle of the school year and the middle of winter..not a good time for energy or new projects while September is also the start of a new season.

I've seen several temperature quilts being done and thought what a fun project that would be. The last several years our weather has been changing to more extremes in our supposedly moderate climate.  I'm just south of Seattle and have had temps in the low 100's and the teen's in recent years.

 I've seen flying geese, hexies, squares and strips done.   I've decided to go with 2.5"  half square triangles with both the high and the low temp for each day in a 20x20 grid.  That will give me 400 spaces for the 365 days of the year with enough room to mark the beginning of each month and spaces for a color code at the bottom.

This is September 1-9.  The top left is the high temp for the day and the bottom right is the low.  In these nine days, I've a 40 degree difference but nothing in the 60's.  I hadn't realized that there was that much variation.

All temps are Fahrenheit
50-55 lt. pink
56-59  Bright pink
60-65 light green
66-69 med. green
70-75 lt. yellow
76-79 bright yellow
80-85 lt. orange
86-89 dark orange
90 and above will be reds...hopefully, I won't be using those for a while!  The 40's and below will be aquas, purples and blues.

I'm really hoping to get a very colorful quilt from this without long stretches of one color.  It will be interesting to see.