C'mon. You know you want to join us. All the cool kids are doing it. :cool:

I'm thinking of adding a key to the front like the one you see on maps.

Come on Kass. you know you want to join. It will be fun. I'm thinking of doing this, but I need to figure out a way to organize the colors where blue and green and purple are seen more than just a few times. So I'm thinking of reversing the color chart where those colors are the warmer colors. So far this year our temps have ranged in the near 60's to -4F. I live in a part of the state, if you don't like the weather, it will change in 3-7 days. Makes life activities so exciting. Where is Sunny California or Florida now?


FYI: Off track: Did you hear this last week all 49 states except FL had snow. Interesting weather.

A weather key is a great idea! We are in the middle of a "Pineapple Express" here in N. Calif. That means a warm storm from the S. Pacific. It is raining on the snow pack at 10,000 feet and causing flooding, avalanches, and mudslides. My road to work is prone to falling trees. But I will be home to sew by 4:30, loving this project.

This sounds amazing! I might play around with wind chill a bit too. We've been known to hit where Fahrenheit & Celsius cross (-40). Maybe a half-square & a quarter square together?

Probably best to keep it simple so I don't throw up my hands and quit during the process. : )

Great idea! With the city and year too. What a quirky keepsake. : )

Ok, well - I changed my mind on my design. Luckily it's only January 10th and not Sept 10th. http://forum.missouriquiltco.com/ima...n_bigsmile.gif I decided my HSTs didn't really convey the story of the temperature change very well and didn't really show enough of my fabric. My new plan is to use 1.5" squares. I will do a 31x12 layout for the high temps and a separate 31x12 layout for the low temps. At the end of the year I think I will join these two halves with a strip of sashing to make a single quilt. In that wide sashing I may applique or paper piece an upwards pointing arrow and then the words "2017 Temperatures" and then a downwards pointing arrow. Or I might just add flying geese . Or I might do something else. I have almost a year to figure it out.

So something more or less like this which will give me a reasonably sized wall quilt.

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If I do it mine was going to be more stylized. I had decided on a small drunkards path block w/ the high temp the outer part and the low temp the inner part, laid out in a circle. That would be 4 days per circle. Each of those would be in a 9 patch w/ a plain background (likely black) square in the center, (so 8 colored circles around a black square) each of those would be a month. (each block would be quilted in a concentric circle). Then the over all layout would be those monthly squares placed in a spiral arrangement w/ a solid background (most likely black). The quilting and spiral arrangement a tribute to my home state Oklahoma and being the center of tornado alley.

My newest ones, through today. :)

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I started on my idea, but don't like my scraps, thinking about getting a jelly roll or two w/ the warm and cool range of colors.

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Kassaundra: Nice!! Thanks for joining us in this crazy...I mean awesome adventure. I considered doing something with curves so I could get better at them but ultimately changed my mind for fear of giving up around April-ish or so. :)

Moonrise: So Cute!!!

The weather is truly drunken Kassaundra!
What is the feedback score?

Oklahoma weather is drunken for sure!!! lol Feedback score is a way for people on the board who you interact with, (sell to, do work for, or swap blocks with) can leave public info either positive or negative.

Wow! What a great idea

What a cute idea! Where did you find weather themed fabric?

I got some of it off e-Bay and some from fabric.com :)

Thnak you! I'm interested in perhaps joining your group but am having issues since our highs at times go into the 115-120's... What ideas would you offer to cover this range?

Hi Neuras,
Our highs sometimes go over 100, not into the 110s, but still pretty close. I'm using a blotchy purple and red/maroon batik that is on the dark side and just has a hot look about it. I had tried bright colors like oranges and reds, but those worked better for 80s and 90s, they just didn't look hot enough to me LOL.

Rob

Yikes - that sounds deep red to me - maybe even maroon. I think a lot of it would depend on what your low temps are as well as how many temp ranges you are thinking of using. Where do the bulk of your temps land? What colors do you like ?

Ive actually pulled up last year's weather report & am going to use that to gauge for this year. The highest so far is 118... yes, every year we ask ourselves the same question, "Why do we continue to live here?"

Don't forget to allow for global warming. I wish I was LOL.

So, 5 degree incremements? I think I may need a longer color scale...

Depends on how many different colors you want to keep track of.

I ended up going with 10 degree increments which meant 11 different colors, unless we get some below 0 temps, then I'll have to add another. Will also have to add another if we get any temps over 110.

Oh, and good idea pulling up last year's weather. I ended up looking at the average monthly temps for my area and used that to help decide colors since I'm trying to pull all of mine from stash and wanted to make sure I had enough of each color for each temp range and enough variety within colors for those parts of the temp range that are likely to be most common.

Rob

That looks like a good progression of color. I arranged mine more emotionally, what I needed in certain weather ranges, or how I felt in them. So, I need yellow when it is in the 30s, and celebrate the 70s with red.

Mnt Gma, if I did that the 50's would be grey and anything under 50 would be black, all in all a very uninteresting quilt! lol

Let's see some progress photos :)

The weather in Georgia has gone from very cold (low of 14 degrees) to warm (high of 72 degrees). I am having to dig for colors I didn't expect to use yet. It is fun watching the temps each day and seeing the different colors come together.

How about some pics of your fabrics, the range of colors you are using?

My progress so far. Highs, Lows and then Precipitation. Poor photo quality but thought I'd share anyway. We've already had more days in the 20s this year than we had all year last year.

For the temp quilt:

• Purple = 20s
• Teal = 30s
• Blue = 40s

For the Precipitation Quilt:

• White - no precipitation
• Kona Lake = precipitation level between .01 - .25

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Immana, That is understandable. Looks like the same weather we have had, except we had 20 inches over four days which got dramatic.

Love this idea. Can't wait to see what y'all come up with. I am mulling it over, but think I have too many projects already in line to commit to this one right now...but I always reserve the right to change my mind. Exciting stuff.

I think this idea is fabulous. And a GREAT way to use up scraps. I know....we never have those, right?!

I'm a little concerned about the amount of colors I'd have to have. We go from -25 in the winter to 105 in the summer. That's a lot of gradient color swatches needed.....hm....

I hope to get caught up on mine either this evening or early in the morning. It's easier for me to do several days' worth at once. :)

Wow! Those of you who have shared pictures....they are all wonderful! It is very inspiring. I know I would get way behind and then not finish so I am just going to thoroughly enjoy what you all are doing on this thread! Thank you for taking time to share progress to date photos.

How is everyone keeping track of the daily's? Journal, notebook, calendar, planner...

I'm tracking mine in Excel although it has not been necessary yet. So far I have been working on mine every day but I don't expect that will continue for the entire year. I will admit it does feel good to get into the sewing room for 10-15 minutes every day for just a tiny bit of "me" time. My DH has been interested in the process. It is supposed to hit 50 tomorrow and this morning he was asking me if that meant a new color in my quilt. It does ! :)

I made myself a chart and planned the quilt out so I can keep track. The S blocks will just be a solid color (white?) to make it work out.

I plan on doing half square triangles with the upper half being a solid color for the average temperature of the day, and the lower half going to be a patterned fabric for something significant for the day. Going to use holiday scraps, denote family members and pets birthdays, precipitation/weather, or anything of interest.

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So cool
 

This is so great. I am going to give it a try!

Fun project. Thanks for the idea