Weather throw

by Apr 5, 20200 comments

Vital statistics

Stitches: 146,000 (approx)

Rows: 730

Length: 358 cm (approx)

Weight: 2 kg

Number of 50g balls of yarn: 40

Time taken at 730 rows at 17 minutes per row 206.83 hours = 8.62 days. It seems like much longer.

Colours: 7

Rowan Handknit Cotton: Bleached, Sea foam, Celery, Sunshine, Flamingo, Rosso

Sheepjes Cahlista: Peach

This was supposed to be a travel journal but it’s turned out to be a covid social-distancing journal instead. It’s symbolic, in passing, that it comprises about 146,000 stitches, almost the same number of people’s lives lost in the UK, my home, to SARS2 -Covid.

What shall I do with it? No idea.

March

March

nfin le printemps!  Except that here in Hong Kong spring is not a respite from howling gales and freezing temperatures. For me it's been the end of nights without needing air conditioning and the dread of the incipient heat and humidity.  The March...

February

February

nd so I stagger almost to the end of this project with my penultimate entry, for February.  The temperature warmed up considerably from January, though there were a couple of cooler weeks, and rain! Lovely, lovely rain! Now, I'm aware that vast...

January

January

t's taken me a bit of a while to write this post partly because I've had a lot on in the last week or so but also partly because I'm struggling a little with what to write and the repetitiveness of these posts, despite the January temperature...

December

December

mmediately there's a noticeable difference in the colours of the blanket. Orange eliminated, pink put firmly in its place and yellow and light green dominating. There was a week when the temperature hardly changed between night and morning, 11 to...

November

November

ery little has changed since October, though the temperatures here are now no longer red but mainly orange and pink. So much so that I had to order more skeins of these colours from London just before their second lockdown started. Who knew when I...

October

October

t's taken me so loooooong to get around to doing this because October was a DULL month weather-wise (and otherwise) here.  It's cooled down a bit but largely, without any relief in the form of travel temps, to a monotony of orange and pink, broken...

September

September

ow, this month is a little more interesting, partly because the first half of it describes a week in the temperate climate of the UK, and the weather there is anything but monotonous. Temperate, as in the Shakespeare sonnet about comparing his...

August

August

am not really sure whether I am completely happy with the break in the three month Peach/Rosso hegemony that this long-awaited trip home has brought. Will you look at all of these cool, cooooooool, colours! The first part of August was marked by...

July

July

es. I know I've been quiet except for these monthly crochet and knitting posts, which provide at least a bit of focus for my life. They’re not just about knitting, of course. It's not that there's nothing else to write about. Of course that can't...

June

June

In my defence, I had not anticipated when I planned this temperature blanket that the temperature would be quite so relentlessly stable in June. It's rained and thundered a few times, but my design has no way of depicting this. As it is, there's been a whole month of...

May

May

Words, words, words! I'm so sick of words! I get words all day through, first from him now from you, Is that all you blighters can do?!   My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe That's how I'm feeling at the moment. There's everything to say about this *gestures around*...

April

April

A month in to my temperature blanket project and this is as far as I've got. My daily knitting interlude, with the previous day's The Archers in the background, has become an anchor point in these days of staying in. We haven't really had a lockdown here in Hong Kong...

Casting on

The project: I was entranced by seeing weather throw pictures from some of my friends on Twitter, most notably @riverwillow8 and, in need of a project to distract me from the dreamlike semi-lockdown existence in which I now find myself, this seemed like a good idea. I...