Commemorate baby’s first year with the honeycomb crochet temperature baby blanket! Change colors each row based on the daily high temperature, and you’ll create a finished project bursting with wild and fun color changes.
You can choose to make your blanket for baby’s first year beginning with his or her birthday, or you can start on January 1 of the year baby is born no matter the birthday! If you choose the January 1 start date and baby isn’t due until June for example, I think this would be a wonderful pregnancy project!
This blanket is for a little girl with an October 31 birthday. Since it’s so late in the year, I’m opting for beginning the blanket on her birthday and ending the day before she turns a year old.
Tips for Planning Your Temperature Blanket
The greatest resource on planning your temperature blankets is temperature-blanket.com! You can input your location and set a time frame to get your historical weather data, then export to a CSV file. You can then sort the data by temperature to get a rough idea of the number of daily highs you can expect for each temperature range throughout the year. This should help you plan how much yarn you need and even what ranges you’d like to go with!
For example, I live in the Chicago area, and when I exported my temperature data there were only 11 days in 2022 where the high was below 19 degrees Fahrenheit. So I decided my lowest range would be 29 degrees and below.
Here’s a little chart I made of the number of days/rows for each temperature range in 2022 to help me plan my blanket for 2024:
| Temperature Range (highs) | Baby Bee Sweet Delight (DK) Yarn Color | Approx # of Rows Per Color (based on 2022 data) |
| 80+ degrees | pink-a-boo | 69 |
| 70-79 degrees | boo pink | 65 |
| 60-69 degrees | bashfull | 51 |
| 50-59 degrees | gingerbread | 54 |
| 40-49 degrees | sand castle | 40 |
| 30-39 degrees | green light | 49 |
| <29 degrees | baby sage | 37 |
A few other temperature blanket planning resources I love:
- I really enjoyed Smitha’s article at Smiling Colors about planning her temperature blanket, plus mistakes to avoid: How To Make A Temperature Blanket: Tips, Mistakes + Fixes!
- I LOVED the Loophole Fox’s temperature blanket course during the Crochet Blanket Summit in 2023. Unfortunately that course is no longer available, but you can check out Shannon’s wonderfully thorough article on her temperature blanket progress here: 2023 Crochet Temperature Blanket.
- I love all of TL Yarn Crafts’ temperature blankets! The colors Toni chooses are stunning. You can find all of her patterns and resources linked up here: Linen Pixel Temperature Blanket.
Materials
- Size 3 DK weight yarn, and so far I have almost 8,000 yards! This should be more than I need and I will update the actual yardage used when the blanket is complete. I’m using Baby Bee Sweet Delight (377 yards per skein), and I’ve purchased the following colors:
- 3 skeins pink-a-boo (80+ degrees)
- 3 skeins boo pink (70-79 degrees)
- 3 skeins bashfull (60-69 degrees)
- 3 skeins gingerbread (50-59 degrees)
- 3 skeins sand castle (40-49 degrees)
- 3 skeins green light (30-39 degrees)
- 3 skeins baby sage (<29 degrees)
- Note: I may purchase another color for the blanket border, or simply use leftover yarn from the other skeins to make the border. Haven’t decided yet!
- Size 7/4.5mm crochet hook
- Scissors
- Stitch markers
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
Abbreviations
- ch(s): chain(s)
- fsc: foundation single crochet
- pm: place marker in the stitch you just created (unless otherwise indicated)
- rep: repeat
- rnd: round
- sc: single crochet
- sl st(s): slip stitch(es)
- sk: skip
- sp(s): space(s)
Finished Size
TBD, predicted around 48″ x 48″ depending on border stitch and number of rounds
Gauge
17.5 spike sts x 31.5 rows = 4″, or 35 sts x 63 rows = 8″
Notes
Nordic Hook’s step-by-step photo tutorial on the honeycomb stitch is phenomenal! I highly recommend checking it out if this stitch is new to you. I’ve included a couple step out photos below, but for a far more detailed tutorial, visit Nordic Hook’s website.
If the honeycomb stitch seems very involved, I think a nice “gateway” stitch is the single crochet spike stitch. You can work up a super quick little dishcloth to get familiar with that stitch using my Single Crochet Spike Stitch Dishcloth pattern.
I recommend using stitch markers at the very beginning and end of each row so you don’t accidentally drop any stitches over the course of this massive project!
Honeycomb Stitch Baby Blanket Pattern
To adjust the width of the blanket, ch any odd number OR fsc any even number. If you opt to ch 197 + complete Row 1, I’d suggest using your Day 1 temperature color for both. Moogly’s short video on foundation single crochet is excellent if you’ve never tried this method before!
Row 1: Fsc 196 sts. Ch 1 and turn.
OR
Ch 197.
Row 1: Sc in the second ch from hook and in each st across. (196 sts). Ch 1 and turn.
Row 2: Sc across. Ch 1 and turn.
Row 3: Sc in the first st. Sc two rows below the next st (spike st). In this row that means you’ll be working into the starting ch. As you work the spike st, make sure you pull the loop up to the same height as the sc you made in the first st of the row. *Sc in the next st, spike st two rows below the next st*, rep to the end of row. The last st in the row should be a spike st. Ch 1 and turn.
Row 4: Sc in the first st. Sc underneath the second leg of the first spike st, and the first leg of the second spike st, pulling the two together and forming a V. I’m including a photo below.
*Sc in the next st, sc in the loops of two spike sts* across until there are two sts left in the row. Sc in the last two sts. Ch 1 and turn.
Row 5: Sc two rows below the first st (spike st). Sc in the next st. Note: when you insert your hook for the spike sts, make sure it comes out in the center of the upside-down Vs you’ve created on the other side. I’m including a photo below.
*Sc spike st two rows beneath the next st, sc in the next st* across. The last st in the row should be a sc. Ch 1 and turn.
Row 6: Sc in the first two sts. *sc in the loops of two spike sts, sc in the next st* across until you have one st left in the row. Sc in the last st. Ch 1 and turn.
Repeat rows 3-6 until you’ve completed your temperature blanket!
Border
As I plan this temperature blanket I haven’t decided yet on a border! I want to see how massive the blanket turns out (if my gauge is off, if the blanket stretches as I work…), and I want to see how I like the edging without a border, too. The stitch actually produces a really lovely edging, so I might skip a border. We’ll see!
If I add a border, I am leaning towards something very simple, like a basic single crochet border or moss stitch border. I want to highlight those honeycomb stitches and color changes!
Will you be making a temperature blanket this year? Have you ever made one?
Monthly Progress
Month 1
I began this baby blanket on October 31, so Month 1 included the entire month of November!
November 2023 in Chicagoland was very colorful – in fact, I used 6 of my 7 colors all in one month!
I do think the back of this stitch looks lovely as well – a single crochet spike stitch temperature blanket would be a beautiful option and would look similar.
Month 2
Month 2 fell in December and the colors have become more muted! I used six of the seven colors in November, and December featured just three hues.
These colors make me think of a winter forest! Muted tones after the leaves have fallen but before the snow.
As of now the blanket is projected to measure about 48″ x 48″. A nice size!
I love the bright start to this blanket fading to more neutral hues. Excited to see how the rest of winter softens even more before brightening come spring.
Month 3
Month 3 fell in January which has been our coldest month. Nearly the entire month is shades of green, my coldest colors.
The blanket is measuring just under a foot tall and we are 1/4 done. This would be a very tedious stitch if I wasn’t spreading out this project over the course of a whole year!
Month 4
What a colorful February in Chicagoland! Like November, I used six of my seven colors this month.
Temperatures ranged from 20s to 70s this month, which is absolutely incredible for February. The only color I haven’t used yet is the lightest pink for when temps hit the 80s! Thrilled the blanket is already so colorful thus far.
Month 5
Happy month 5, which is March for this baby blanket! The weather started warming this month. I used shades of brown to denote 40s and 50s, so this month looks particularly neutral.
It’s exciting to see some more pinks and oranges again (my colors for the 60s and 70s).
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Dana Nield 
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