Year Long Scarf - Update! 6 Months

I've had a daily crochet project going since January 1st that  you may or may not remember.

Here is a link to that post!

Basically, every day from January 1st 2014 to December 31st 2014 I'll be crocheting a line of crochet onto a piece.

I do this in order to create a "scarf" that represents this year. Each day is represented by the color of the sky!

White for overcast (let's face it people.. I used a lot of this and we're only 6 months in. I live in the Pacific Northwest!)

Light blue for partly cloudy

Blue for BLUEBLUEBLUE skies!

Black for thunderstorms/big DARK clouds

Today I'm officially 6 months into this "scarf"

I keep referring to it as a "scarf" because I won't be actually wearing this when I'm done. I'm going to hang it up!

This is a picture of it hung up.

Here is another picture with the months represented (click to see enlarged). I did not do an exact count but this is an approximation. You'll notice in Feb there are different stitched (puff/chain)

Puff stitches (which there are two rows in Feb) represent SNOW! The loose chain that is in the middle represents sleet.

How great is the large chunk of white in April? April showers..... :D

I love this project so far. I don't keep a lot of things because of sentimentality but this will be one I think.

Basically while outside each day I make note of the sky and write it down in my planner. At the end of the week (Sundays) I do all the rows and once a month I take it out and sew in all the tails. I do NOT want to get to December and have to sew in 365 tails. No thank you!

What do you think of my 2014 weather scarf? I was thinking of doing one with emotions. Red for anger, blue for sad.. etc. That would be slightly therapeutic don't you think? Help us acknowledge our feelings on a daily basis.

Thank you SO much for following along!

A Year Long Scarf

It is officially 2014! Happy Happy New Year!

(I'll never remember this.. If I wrote checks I would be one of those people who writes 2013 on her checks for most of the year)

For the new year I'm finally able to start a project I've been planning since last summer! I'm REALLY excited.

A Year Long Scarf! Taaaa! daaaaaa!

I drew inspiration from THIS picture on Pinterest.

The original pin states "365 day scarf - Knit a row every day depicting the color of the sky that day. In 365 days you'll have a scarf that's 5ft long."

Now as you may or may not be aware we live in Washington. It rains a lot in western Washington... so the scarf may end up just being one sort of sad shade of white. Well, if that happens then I'll end up with a LOVELY white scarf with several blue stripes in the middle. STILL sounds amazing to me.

Example. I took this picture in July 2012.

Yeah. While it is WARM in July it isn't usually very clear on a regular basis. August will be BLUE skies almost all month. So this is going to be an interesting scarf.

Since I can only crochet (knitting is hard!) I will be crocheting this scarf!

I'll be using these 3 shades of blue as well as white and black for those overcast and stormy days. This is all worsted weight yarn and this is yarn I just scrounged from my stash.

The white is for overcast days. Light blue will be for partly cloudy. Medium blue will be for clear skies. Navy blue will be for slightly stormy. Black will be FULL ON BLACK storms.

Here is today's row! I'll have sporadic updates for you on this project throughout the year. :D I suspect that it will be mentally therapeutic to crochet a row in black on those stormy days. What do you think?

What if someone were to do this but with colors representing their moods? Green for jealousy. Red for ANGRY days. Blue for sad. What a lovely scarf that would be. Full of meaning and so many memories.

Thank you so much for following along!