Temperature Quilt

Are you planning a Temperature Quilt? The Canuk Quilter has a great free pattern and lots of hints for keeping track of which fabric/color represents a range of weather temperatures. You do have to sign up for her newsletter to get the pattern. She has lots of inspiring stuff!

Then ... go to the M&M Facebook page and look under files for "Baby It's HOT Outside". There you will find my math changes to make this quilt with charms, 2.5" squares and/or 2.5" strips.

The Quilting Sheep 

Here's another example of a similiar quilt but it's made with Color Rows.

The possibilites are endless for color design ... Keep the background 1 color/fabric or make it scrappy. The rows can represent the weather temperature. Pick a year and Goggle it for what the temps were and make a quilt for a special someone's special year - birth, wedding, major life event. Each "block strip" is made from 2 squares (2.5") - how about the high and the low temp for that day?

Living in Florida, we don't have a wide range of temperatures AND it's often hot outside (see what I did there?) AND I don't want to wait a whole year to complete my quilt. I decided to go with a scrappy rainbow theme. Each row will be a made from light and dark squares of a given color with a neutral background. According to the M&M pattern, I will make 5 of these blocks and add 1 extra block strip at the end of the row for a more finished look.

This is another USE IT UP kind of quilt ... our fav! Start sewing some block strips and rows and post your pictures in the M&M Facebook group. We love seeing what everyone is making.