Introduce Yourself!

[Shandeh]

Question: Are we then going to use these scarves as a demonstration of global warming and climate change?

Ha!

My name Is Laura and I live in northern California..........I have to go explore the forum a bit to find out how to use it.

Be sure to read the "How to Use This Forum" post!

Hi!
My name is Nicole & I am one of the designers on the Bernat team!
.......I'm also excited to be a part of these forums & to use these adorable little emoticons!

Cool! Wonderful to know that one of our amazing designers is joining the fun!

Hi, I'm Cori! I
I work with Jen and Amanda on the Web Content team here at Bernat! I'm a new knitter (the ladies here at the Design Studio taught me to knit when I joined the team last summer), so I'm SUPER excited to work on this project all year!

Another Bernat staff person! This is so fun!

I started working on it this weekend and had all of the rows for January 1st to January 19th done, and then my kitten got into my knitting and pulled all of my stitches out with her claws while I was asleep!

OH NO!!!!

[Shandeh]

Hey there! I'm Jessa from Windsor, ON. So excited for this project! It'll be unique for pretty much everyone, and I love the weather-- at one point I wanted to be a meteorologist.

Wow! This project really IS up your alley, isn't it?

Hello,
My name is Amanda. I live on Long Island and I work with animals. I love crochet but animals have always been and will always be my #1 passion. My current job is working with a cat shelter and I have very minimal hours so I can be home. My husband and I live in the apartment at my grandpa's house and over the last year he has become unable to drive due to Alzheimer's......

Wow, that's a lot of responsibility helping to take care of your grandpa.
My mother stays home with my step-dad, who has Alzheimer's, so I know what you're dealing with.

I will be joining this KAL as soon as my yarn comes in. I can 't wait to start. I was wondering if anyone would be including cloud cover, thunderstorms, snow, etc. in their scarf. I have chosen colors to include those in my scarf. I chose white for snow, dark grey for tornados, and a tweed like for thunderstorms.

I'm using white for snow, grey for rain/fog, and black for lightning/thunderstorms.

[Shandeh]

Hi everybody, I'm Kaleigh! like Jen, I'm one of the web content coordinators here at Bernat. I'm a little late to the party since I was out of the office when the newsletter went out, but I'm excited to jump in now!

Hi Kaleigh!

Hi everyone; I'm Paula from Chicago. This is my first CAL ever.........
I will be making a granny square afghan. The 1st round with the temperature color and the 2nd round in white and join the squares as I go along. I will have 20 squares per row and 20 rows. I figured 365 days, 3 white squares between the months and one white square at the beginning and end of the afghan. That will be a total of 400 squares. Depending on the left over yarn colors will determine how I'll make my border. My husband never heard of CAL/KAL's before and thought this was a great idea too. He will help me by looking up and listing the daily temperature on a spread sheet for me!

Welcome! Your granny square afghan sounds so neat! Can't wait to see photos.

:hellogoodbye: Thought I'd give an update on my final project. I have decided to focus on NY which is where I am now. ......So for now have my plan doing a wrap like Shandeh using the chevron stitch and charting the high temps....

Nice! Chevron!

[Shandeh]

I've set up a Google Doc Spreadsheet to track the High/Low and mean temperatures, as well as weather conditions. Not sure if I will be incorporating those in anyway, but I really like tracking stuff. I think the scarf is an awesome way for displaying data. (yay, nerd!)

I'm a nerd too! Welcome!

Hey there! I'm Vickie, your friendly neighborhood Bernat Spokesperson. I LOVE the idea of this project, and because it won't take a lot of daily time to keep up -- I think I'm going to give it a try! Big shocker, I'll be using Sheep(ish) by Vickie Howell for my scarf. Can't wait to see everyone's WIPs!
xx,
Vickie

Welcome Vickie! Wonderful having you here.

Hello everyone, I am Sharon from Iowa. .....Thinking to do 12 (1 for each month) strips and then join together.

That's a great idea!

.....ok I think I'll stop now and go knit. Haven't caught up yet on my wrap too much time online. That Internet can sure suck you in

Omigosh! Doesn't it?!

[cinderla]

Hi my name is Cindy and I live in Barrie, Ontario. This is the very first time I have ever done a KAL. When I saw this scarf I just had to do it. Just waiting for my yarn to start knitting! So cold outside right now, brrrr!!

[catsandcrochet]

Hi everyone! My name's Aimee & my husband would say I'm a yarnaholic. Every time a box comes to our porch, he assumes it's just another box of yarn...which, ok, he's probably right most of the time.

I decided to make mine an afghan. I'm not sure how I'm going to do it. In theory, I could do 3 separate ones-1 for the high temps, 1 for the low temps & 1 for the mean temps. I even thought about doing one for each of the seasons or even one for each month. lol.

I live in Southern CA. Most of the time the weather here is pretty boring...sun, sun & just when I think I can't take it anymore...more sun! Oh and the lovely heat waves that come with my kryptonite...Santa Ana winds. Just thinking about it makes my eyes water & my nose itch.

So, for my afghan, I was thinking about doing it from my birth year & where I was born...Lompoc, CA. It's a couple hrs north of here, so I figure maybe I'll get more degree variation from there?

I just ordered the yarn yesterday morning. I'll be using Vickie Howell's Sheep(ish).

[Kittenpurl]

Hello, Christine from Michigan...with our crazy weather of late, I chose to do a Mason, Michigan based theme!!! I am choosing to do January 2013, and then February-December 2012 temps. I am so excited!!! I am using Vickie Howell yarn Sheep-ish in the thermometer colors displayed on the blog page. I added a hot pink before the red so the red would be 100 degrees because we reach it occasionally!!! Hope everyone is having the time of their knit and crochet lives!!!

[knittingnana60]

My name is Pat Meyer. I am a retired business librarian. I like the idea of the scarf, but plan on using last year's temperatures, so I can get it done sooner. I am also considering using sock yarn, to make it shorter. My calculations for doing it as designed suggest that it will be between 11 and 12 feet long. Long scarves are nice, but that is too long. Using sock yarn, I expect to get a 7 to 8 foot long scarf. Right now, I am trying to figure out the temperature ranges I will use for the colors, my temperature range is 22 to 101 degrees, but there is only one day over 100, so that needs to be combined with the 90's temperatures. Also there are very few in the 20's. I am concerned about the amount of yarn in each color, and whether or not I should get a second skein of some yarns.

[Minkeyswife]

Hi,
I'm Robin. I live in San Mateo, CA - about half way between San Francisco and San Jose. This also is my first CAL. I decided to go with the highs and have split my temperature range in 5 degree intervals with 55 and below the lower limit and 81 and up at the high end. I decided to go back and start it on Jan. 1, as we had some record lows here that I wanted to document. The pattern suggested actually crochets up pretty quick and I am almost caught up to today, having just started it on Sunday! Next year I may try an afghan using granny squares with the low temp in the middle of the square and the high temp for the outside row(s) of the square. Maybe even include the average for the day between the middle and outer rows.

[Laynie]

Hi, I am Elaine and live in New Zealand. A friend from the state of New York gave me this site so that I could knit hats like hers. I so enjoyed Knitting the Mystery blanket last year and know that I will enjoy knitting the scarf. Our climate is moderate so will workout a colour and temperature chart to suit where I live.
Our temperature is given in celsius so our temperature today is 30c which is about 78f