Sky Blanket Pattern — The Colour of Every Day's Sky, Any Year & City

A sky blanket pattern for any year from 1940 on, anywhere in the world. Usually a sky blanket means looking at the sky every day for a year and knitting a stripe in its colour; this pattern gives you any past year at once, from the weather records: sunshine, sunny spells, cloud, fog, drizzle, rain, snow and thunder, each a real yarn shade. Choose the yarn: Stylecraft Special DK (UK), DROPS Paris (Europe) or Red Heart Super Saver (US), and the colour list names each real shade with its number and how many balls to buy. Or use yarn you already have: add your own colours from cold to warm, and the pattern tells you how many grams of each you need. Knit or crochet: double crochet (UK) / single crochet (US), moss stitch, half treble, garter or stocking stitch. Choose the width; the length, the stitches to start with and the yarn amounts are worked out from the stitch's usual tension, or from your own tension square. A row per week makes a smaller blanket. Three layouts: stripes (a row a day), granny squares (a square a day, joined in a grid, with a map of where each goes), or a calendar (twelve months, each laid out Monday to Sunday like a calendar page, with cream squares for the empty days and dark borders between the months). Mark up to three special days, such as a birthday or a wedding: their rows are highlighted and stitched over in cream. You get a PDF pattern (A4 or US Letter): the cover with your blanket and the colour list, the instructions, every row with its date, weather, colour and a box to tick, and a print of the finished blanket to frame. Instant download; nothing is posted. Weather: Open-Meteo.com historical data (CC BY 4.0).