The temperature project

Not a new pattern…that’s for next week..but I wanted to share a whole lot of socks I made.
I’m sure many of you have heard of temperature projects. The idea being that you make an item..scarf, blanket etc…over the period of a year. Each day you knit, or crochet, a specific number of rows determined by the daily temperature.
each potential temperature is given a colour e.g. 40-50 degrees might be green, or blue…or even red…whatever you want…generally very cold colours have various shades of blue changing to oranges and reds as the temperature rises. On average people use about 10 colours.

Anyway, I decided one year (I was turning 50), that I wanted to do something based on my year of birth! However, there was no data available online..it was too long ago! How to feel old in an instant! I emailed the met office and asked for their help. I explained what I was doing and asked if anyone could find any data for my year of birth. I didn’t expect much. Low and behold a lovely lady responded that, being intrigued by the project, she had gone into the depths of the met office and found the actual written pages for that year! Can you believe it? Anyway, she emailed me every single page with every bit of info I might possible want…so my project got underway.

It took me a while to do lots of calculations..(I’ve always said that knitting is just math)..but I finally got it all worked out and got knitting.

My temperature project was to knit a pair of socks for each month of the year I was born. One sock would show the high temperature, one the low. The heel cuff and toe would be the colour for the avaerage high or low temperature. I would end up with 12 pairs of matching/non matching socks..and I did it.
I love them so much I can’t bear to wear them for fear of wearing them out…at almost 54 they’ve sat in a box for almost 4 yrs but I still love them. I also kept all my working out!

Here they are..in all their glory.