Started a temperature quilt for the days of 2024

Back in January of 2024, I had grand plans of making a temperature quilt.  I made myself an excel sheet to track the weather (highs and lows) for each day.  I did this daily for four and a half months.  But then life intervened and this got put on hold.  

Some time in January/2025, I was reminded of this quilt and what I wanted to do.  As far as I knew, by this time I was planning on going back to work shortly.  I decided to go back in the historical records to obtain the rest of the temperatures to complete my excel sheet and made plans to start working on this quilt.  Then this got put on hold as I had to deal with more development.

It wasn't until Mar/2025, just before my second surgery, that I pulled this out to start.  I needed a distraction and starting a new quilt does just that!  I worked on it during a Saturday sew day.  It was exactly what I needed.

This is the block I made for January.  It's paper piece, so that I could get an accurate circle and line references for the position of the premade wedges.  Then when the circle was complete, I appliquéd it to the background, followed by the centre circle. 

Each colour represents a range of temperatures and each wedge represents the high and low of a particular day.  The centre circle is for the 31st of the month, so some months will have it and others will not.  The wedges are also staggered, representing the difference in the high and low of that day.  The highs are the outer edge, the lows are the inner edge.  If it was warmer that day, the outer edge wedge was larger in increments by the difference between the two, and if it was cooler the inner edge was larger.  I'll have to make a ledger for a label on the back to explain what each circle represents.

This is my data on an excel sheet for the first four months.  I am hoping this will make things a bit more clear.  Disregard it though if you're not into the geeky data stuff...lol...and just admire the colour.

                    

As we are getting close to the New Year, things around here are settling down and getting back to a semblance of normal, or should I say the new normal.  I've been contemplating starting this quilt back up again.  I am thinking maybe as a block-of-the-month type thing.  Such as doing January's block in January, February's block in February and so on.  I still have time to think about it, as I already have January's block done.  We'll see.....

Take care everyone.  Don't forget to take some time for yourself, you deserve it!!