I arrived in Ireland on the last day of February in 2010, but since I never remember how many days February had that year and since the 1st of March was the full first day of my (new) life in Ireland, I kept celebrating my Irishversary on that day.

This year is my 10th and to celebrate I decided to make myself a temperature blanket with the average temperature of every day I spent in Ireland in this 10 years, from the 1st of March 2010 to the 28th of February 2020.

And since I’m a nerd, what else could I do with a dataset of temperature? Play around with R and Excel:

With some data wrangling, I split the average temperature in ranges, calculated how many balls of yarn I needed, ordered some in some nice purple shades, and got myself crocheting.

The stitch of choice is this nice zig-zag I learned from Meet Me at Mike’s but lengthened from 7 to 15.

Each zig is going to be a year.

Each row is a day.

This is going to be a bitch of a project!