Temperature Blankets for 2024 and 2025

Dear community,
How did things go with your temperature blankets for 2024? Do you have any plans for temperature blankets for 2025?

I made the blanket in 2023, but this year the leftovers became a temperature snake—it’s just missing a piece of its tail.

My temperature blanket is actually from 2021. For a whole year, I crocheted one row every day. I’m now using it as planned—as a cover for a lounge chair. Attentive CP Blog readers have surely already spotted it.

Once you’ve made one, you spend a whole year wondering how it will turn out. But I don’t need to make a second one. New projects are more appealing to me.

Best regards, Ina

I’ve thought about making a temperature blanket before. But so far, the cost of materials has put me off.

I’d rather make a scarf or a stole.

Well, they’re pretty much the same for every blanket—it doesn’t get any more expensive just because it’s multicolored. There are 365 rows (or 366 this year), and depending on the thickness of the yarn, that can get pretty long.

So does that mean a temperature blanket is something you only do once?

Not necessarily... A friend of mine crocheted a temperature blanket for each of her children’s birth years. And here in the gallery, a mother made two temperature blankets for her twins for the same year, but in different colors. I found that very interesting: same pattern, but different colors: https://www.crazypatterns.net/de/gallery/image/41930

I could see myself making another one, too. First of all, you can never have enough blankets :-) and second, just by comparing last year’s blanket with this year’s snake, I can already see how different these two years actually were.

Knitting or crocheting a temperature blanket is something you really have to be committed to—it’s not a side project. And with any major project, you need to take care of the materials in advance. So if you want to make a temperature blanket, you should start collecting yarn of the same weight in different colors the year before.

You also need to consider the quality of the yarn. That, in turn, depends on what you want the temperature blanket to be like. Mine is crocheted from acrylic because I had so much of it. But acrylic isn’t breathable. I wouldn’t choose it if I wanted the blanket to be breathable and warm. But if you make the blanket from real wool, the material comes at a price.

Once you’ve made up your mind and have the necessary materials, nothing stands in the way of a year full of excitement and keeping an eye on the thermometer.

Best regards, Ina

My temperature blanket—or rather, the one for my son—isn’t a year-long blanket but runs from summer to summer. That means I’m halfway through now, and our little guy looks forward every day to getting it for his birthday next year.
I really enjoy making it because it’s so easy to work on in between—about 20 minutes of knitting on it per day 😍 
I chose a yarn that’s part of the standard range at the local yarn shop, and if I run out of a color, I just buy more skeins. I’m not paying attention to the dye lot here.