Temperature Cowl/Infinity Scarf
Something NEW this year!
I have always loved the look and idea behind Temperature Blankets but I know my schedule wouldn’t allow for me to do such a big project amidst my other yearly yarnie things!
When I had this idea for my Cotswold Temperature Cowl or Infinity Scarf and presented it on IG, I was so excited so many of you loved this idea too, so here we go! This project has 1-2 rows worked per week (depending which pattern you pick), and is in a bulky #5 yarn. I used Hue+Me, total it only uses 1.5-2.5 skeins (depending which pattern you pick) so this works up quickly and is a great one for stash busting excess or half used skeins. Since you only work 1-2 rows per week. 30sts in a row, it’s so doable if you’re behind. Working on it weekly or going month to month you’ll find this easy peasy! If you can’t get to your row one week you’ll just want to make sure and track your average daily high as you go for when it’s time to work your row!
So grab your pattern, printable or on the blog and here’s how it will go!
(Instructions for how to adjust this into the temperature stripes are listed below + as an extra page on your purchased PDF)
Let’s make this short and sweet :)
Grab the Pattern
Cotswold Cowl - 1 row a week
I have two patterns available for this project. You can find both of these on my blog or Ad-FREE Printable PDFs in my Ravelry and Etsy Shops.
Grab the Pattern
Cotswold Infinity Scarf - 2 rows a week + a colorblock at the end.
PATTERN #1: One will be my Cotswold Cowl. This will involve 1 row worked per week.
PATTERN #2: Two is my Cotswold Infinity Scarf. This one will have 2 rows worked per week and a modern colorblock detail at the end.
NOTE: Both paid PDF patterns have an additonal page added to them to adjust the pattern into your temperature version. This way you don’t need to keep coming back to the blog for an overview of how the stripes are worked. Please see below on how we determine what each row will be and the indepth details.
Here’s how you get your temps, and my ideas on how you can do your rows, all while adding some fun customizations for this quick project.
What determines the row temp/color?
We will take our daily highs, Sun-Sat. When we divide that by 7, we will know our average temp and which color to work our rows in.
How do we break up the months?
At the start of the month you will work one excess row in the same neutral color for each month. So for that first week you’ll have 2 rows (3 for the infinity), 1 for the month, 1 for the week's temp. This month’s row will also give a cool continuity to your stripes on the cowl.
What if the month falls half in one month, half in the other? You can chose where you would like to add your monthly stripe. You could see if more days are in one month and add it to there or work a row in two colors? Pick your adventure!
NOTE: The end of the year has one day for the week, I decided not to do a stripe for that on the pattern and the instructions don’t include that extra stripe since it’s only one day and there is no average to make.
Cotswold Cowl
If you’re making the Cotswold Cowl you will only have 1 row to work a week. This Cowl in total only takes 2 hrs to make so this is a very friendly project.
For the temperature version, your beginning chain row and Row 1 will be in the Color A yarn you designated to use as your month color. At the start of every month we will work 1 row in Color A, to help show a separation and break up the months. All other rows are worked as stated on the blog outline below to correspond with whichever color you attributed to that weekly average temp (1 row).
See below:
52 weeks x 1 row = 52 rows. 12 months x 1 row = 12 rows (a total of 64 rows)
(see Blog, there is a last week in Dec with only one day in it so I didn’t add it in)
Our Pattern has a total of 65 rows. For the remaining row, work it in your Color A month row to show a year end separation to the cowl. Or, another idea is to a pick a special day in the year and at that time add a special color row to make up for that one row.
You could make multiple ones as gifts too if you wanted. What kind of gifts?
Gift Ideas
Babies first year! If a friend just had a baby, how cool would an end of the year Gift be of a cowl commemorating babies first year in temps?
Kiddos away from college? How cool would a cowl make with their hometowns temps to be a comforting gift at the end of the year?
Best friends group? How cool would an end of year besties gift be of matching cowls for their year together!?!
Get creative and come up with any idea, but knowing you can make a row in just 5 minutes a week, makes it easy. You could make multiple blankets per year for temps thoough if you're on a tight budget, this project really fits the bill!!
Cotswold Infinity Scarf
This project takes about 3-4hrs to make depending on speed, so it's another great project for the year and making extra as gifts is totally doable!!
For the temperature version, your beginning chain row and Row 2 will be in the Color A yarn you designated to use as your month color. At the start of every month we will work 2 rows in Color A, to help show a separation and break up of the months. All other rows are worked as stated below on the blog outline to correspond with whichever color you attributed to that weekly average temp (2 rows). Another thing to remember is our Scarf has more rows then the 2 for each month and 2 for each week of the year.
See below:
52 weeks x 2 rows = 104 rows. 12 months x 2 rows = 24 rows (a total of 128 rows)
Our Pattern has a total of 148 rows. So for the remaining rows at the end of the year, work those in Color A as a modern color block to finish off your Scarf.
When the year is up we will complete the total rows needed for the scarf by adding a beautiful colorblock section. I’m planning to match my monthly rows for a nice continuity and flow throughtout the scarf. Another idea is to use a completly different color to really make it pop!
(color block section will be between the red rows)
I had a few different ideas for how you could determine your temp rows for this longer scarf project.
OPTION 1:
ROW 1: Mon-Thurs averages for 1 row.
ROW 2: Fri-Sun.
The cool thing about this method is you’ll have a neat view of your weekday versus the weekends per year.
OPTION 2:
Row 1: Your 7 day average. Sun-Sat
Row 2: Your 7 day humidity average.
For me I’m doing option 2. I swear the humidity has gotten worse haha and I know for me I don’t always mind high/low temps, but when the humidity is in the ick range, I’m wishing it was cooler. Give me a dry heat all day long, oh and no wind haha!
So the cool thing about this version for me is I can look back through the cowls year and know how many days I felt were ick, versus cool and dry,
Having the month stripe always matching and my humidity rows only bouncing between 2 colors should also give this a cool continuity (or it’ll be too much of one haha let’s wait and see)
Stripe Colors
There’s a few ways to determine how many degrees each stripe may be.
I found a cool website called Weatherspark which showed me my yearly temps per month, and humidity.
This allowed me to determine where I should break up my temps or color. I’m in SoCal so we have more varying heat days. For this reason I plan to break up heat to really see where we were. For example, (50-60), (70-80), (80-90), (90-95), (95-100), (100-105), (105-120)
So I’ll need a total of 7 colors. For our day time high we rarely go below 50, so I may just make the color count for any temp below that just knowing it was cold lol. We also rarely go past 115, so that final color will also count for anything just unbelievably HOT!!
If you have more of a medium and vary temp feel free to add your 5* or 10* spaces blocks anywhere you want.
So, I’ll keep adding to this throughout the year if a cool idea or details is needed by any questions you may send me through IG, so enjoy!!
I’m hoping to post a reel every week showing my progress. Definitely join me with this year long project on my IG and tag me so I can see your cowls :)
