Hello crafters!

If you haven’t heard of the ‘temperature blanket’ I’m here to fill you in! This fun project makes a multicolour blanket using your average daily temperatures to create a random colour pattern. The end result is a totally unique and random blanket in a beautiful array of colours.

Of course there are countless ways that you could create a temperature blanket; I’m just showing you how I made mine! You can take some ideas from my project to make your own or follow my tutorial step-by-step if you like the way mine turned out 🙂

This is part two of the tutorial so you can head over to Part One first if you haven’t completed that yet. Part one will get you all set up and show you which colours I used. Part one also contains a free downloadable chart that you can use to create your pattern!

After part one is complete you should have something that looks like this!

I already love how this blanket looks and I am extra excited that this project isn’t a gift and I get to keep it heehee 🙂

Blocking your temperature blanket

As with most crochet projects you will need to block your blanket out before adding your border.

Let your blanket dry out overnight before starting your border or simply dry it with a hair dryer if you are too excited to wait.

Preparing yarn for border

The first step to adding a border to your blanket is to work one row of single crochet around the entire outside of your blanket. I used Deep Forest just because that is the yarn that I had the most left of. In each corner you can work a single crochet, chain 1, single crochet.

Next gather up all your remaining yarn from this project. Hopefully you still have an array of colours left! I used up a few of my colours but I think I have enough of a variety to not need to purchase any more yarn.

Cut all of your yarn into 10 inch pieces. I found it very useful to wrap the yarn around my phone from top to bottom.

Pull the yarn off while holding all of the loops together and then cut through the bottom of the loops creating a bunch of 10 inch strands in one quick step! I’m sure there are all sorts of things around your house that you could use to wrap your yarn.

Once you have cut up a variety of yarn strings mix them all together so you will have even colour distribution as you work on your border!

I chose to only put the tassel edging on the side edges of my blanket because I wanted to square it out a bit but you can put this edging all the way around if you would prefer!

Tying tassel border onto your temperature blanket

Start by taking 4 strands of yarn. fold them in half and pull through one of your single crochet stitches using your crochet hook. When you have partially pulled the yarn through the stitch fold the ends in through the loop and pull tight! This is the first tassel.

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Then skip one single crochet and make another tassel in the next stitch.

Take 4 strands from each tassel and tie them in a knot about half an inch from the original knot.

Continue this around your edging to finish the tassel edge!

Now what will I do with this extra cozy blanket in the middle of summer? Seems to be doing a great job on picnic blanket duty!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I would love to hear your comments and questions below.

Happy crafting!