Last year I decided to take on a temperature crochet project. This kind of project involves working one row for each day of the year using yarn colors that correspond to either the highest or lowest (or both) temperature of that day. It's most common to see blankets made this way since the end result is pretty large, but you can make other things too.
I chose to make a giant stuffed millipede! The pattern came from Projectarian and is free right here. Throughout the year I've documented my progress, which you can see in my temperature millipede tag.
Since I planned on using both the high and low temperature of each day, I picked out 20 colors for maximum variety. (Yarn: Caron Simply Soft)
And now, after a year of work and a week of putting all the pieces together: the millipede is complete!
This big boy is 90 inches/228 cm long. That's over 7 feet! It's longer than my bed. I don't even want to know how much it weighs (a lot).
Construction photos and final color statistics under the cut!
Every day last year when I did a new row of the body, I also did a row of the belly, so they were both finished at the same time.
I also made the legs throughout the year: 192 total! They were attached in a gradient from black to white to black again, and I really like how that turned out.
I waited all year to make the antennae because I wasn't sure what color to make them. In the end I went with Sage because it was the third most used color throughout the whole year, but it wasn't used at all in the head section. I'm happy with that choice, I think it pulls the whole thing together nicely!
And now some final end of year statistics:
#1 Most Used Color Award goes to our reigning champion: Pagoda! It was the high 42 times and the low 81 times, for a total of 123 days. Special mention to Kelly Green (2nd place with 103 days) and Sage (3rd place with 97 days).
#1 Least Used Color Award goes to Soft Pink! It was the low for 2 days last January and made that lovely pink stripe on the head. Special mention to Plum Perfect and Lavender Blue (tied for 2nd place with 4 days each).
Every color was used except Black and White, and honestly I'm okay with that.
Six days used the same color for both the high and the low, forcing me to pull from the inside and the outside of the same skein.
It was a fun project, but boy am I glad it's done! My next challenge is figuring out where this beastie is going to live in my room.
Have you ever wanted to learn mosaic crochet but could only ever find right-handed tutorials? Are you tired of having to reverse everything in your head to make any sense of it?
Well guess what!
Every mosaic crochet tutorial on my website now has left-handed instructions in addition to right-handed!
This has been a HUGE effort over the last few weeks, but as a left-handed crocheter myself I really wanted my designs to be accessible. This also extends to the pdfs on Ravelry and Etsy, and will be true of every future tutorial and design I publish.
studiolegeaux.com - Free tutorials and designs, plus links to where to find pdfs can all be found here!
Finally got myself together and released this heart pattern! It's mosaic crochet! It's FREE!
AND!
It's on my brand new website!!
Mosaic crochet for crafty geeks and gamers
You know what else is there? Every single mosaic crochet chart I've created up until now! The dice! The Veilguard symbol! It's all on there!
I've also got tutorials for overlay mosaic crochet starting at the very beginning, so if you've ever been interested in learning, I've got you. Go forth and learn mosaic!
I have so much more stuff to put on my crochet website but it's all on pause right now because a) I started a new job last month that requires actually going to the office and b) I'm moving to a new apartment this weekend so every free moment is currently spent packing and stressing about not having enough time to pack due to aforementioned in-the-office job
Which is just to say if you've followed me recently for crochet reasons I promise I've got more stuff coming! So much more stuff! Just as soon as I have any amount of time to do it again
Slightly late November update, I was out of town and then had to catch up on days. Still catching up, but I've at least made it to the end of the month!
The blues and greens are back like they never went away in the first place. Pagoda (45-49° F) has fully reclaimed its position as Most Used Color with 101 days so far (30 as the high, 71 as the low).
We're in the home stretch now! I just have a couple weeks left of the body of this thing, then I get to put the entire millipede together. The last 10 or so days of December will be the tail end (or as I call it, the butt) and then it will be DONE.
Aww yeah, we're so back baby. The blues and greens are back in force as the weather finally cools the fuck down.
It was a neck and neck competition this month between our two color champions: Pagoda (45-49° F) and Sage (55-59° F). After half a year of Pagoda dominance Sage finally won out last month, and the two fought valiantly through October for the coveted title of Most Used Color. The month ended with Pagoda retaking first place with 83 days so far this year! Sage is at 81, with Kelly Green (50-54° F) closing in on it at 79.
Who will win the year long championship?? We'll find out at the end of December!
