Have you heard of a temperature quilt? I hadn’t until I was over at my friend Barbs house and she had one on her design wall. She explained what they are and told me to check them out online. Wow! I found all kinds of different ways that people are making them. Basically what you do is have a color assigned to different temps and then you sew your pieces together according to what the temp is for that day. Some do high temps while others do low temps and some do both. Barb is doing low temps and she is following the pattern of Linda Lehn.

After looking at numerous temperature quilts, I started going through my stash. I’ve been trying to use up my stash over the last several years so I don’t have a lot to choose from, but I did find a roll of 2 1/2″ strips of Kona solids and a few more solids.

I decided that maybe this will work if I give each strip a 2 degree number. So I made a chart and picked out 47 strips. (Most temp quilts aren’t made with that many colors) I am hoping that we don’t have more than 17 days with the same temp!! 😳

I found this quilt and am hoping that by using 2 1/2″ squares, I’ll have enough… I hope!!

Here is my layout of colors. Going from 0-100 degrees.

I numbered the end of each strip since I am using so many different colors.

Here is the first week of January.

Have you made a temperature quilt??

Theresa