It seems to be traditional to start a Temperature Blanket in January, at the start of a new year and whilst I can see the obvious attractions of a new year, new blanket approach, when you think about it a summer start has a lot of advantages.
Starting the knitting during the warmer months (in the Northern hemisphere) has the advantage that the blanket is smaller and cooler to work on, saving the longer heavier rows for the colder months, when a pile of wool on your lap is probably a lot more welcome.
I vividly remember that my knitting slowed to a crawl during the 2020 summer as I just couldn’t face working on a large blanket project. Given that I was knitting a corner to corner blanket (with the longest rows during the summer months) this meant I had to do a lot of catch up knitting in autumn to stand a hope of finishing on time.
Starting in the summer would have completely bypassed this and would, with hindsight probably made for a much more relaxing knit.
Depending on your colour preferences and choices you might also want the warmer colours at each end of the blanket, with a cooler ones in the centre. I love my temperature blanket to death and use it a lot, but the few warm colour stripes right across the middle do annoy me slightly. Given the choice again I think I would prefer them confined to the edges.
I’ve blogged about my Temperature Blanket before, but I’ve included the link here in case you want to read up more on it, and maybe induldge in a little blanket planning of your own this summer.
And if you do decide to do a summer start, please do let me know. I’d love to cheer you on from the sidelines.
