Notes for a 2020 temperature quilt.

I'm getting ideas for next year's temperature quilt, so I'll jot them down here and revisit them at the end of the year.

Use two strips per day again, but this time have the days running horizontally and the months vertically instead of vice versa.  Each month would have two rows of 14-16 days, or rather four rows including the highs and lows.

Put the lows above the highs this time, as they most often relate to the early morning rather than the late night, and it's bugging me.

This way the warm colours are going to flow across the centre horizontally, rather than being down the middle as with the 2019 quilt.

Make the rows curve.  This could be abstract swirls, or it could resemble mountains.  Do a new curve for each month, and then divide up the four rows within that, and then divide up according to days.  The height of the rows will vary, so I can change the width of the days to compensate for that a little, to give more evenly sized pieces.  Although that might look odd and unbalanced, and I may just have to live with some months getting more focus than others.  Perhaps try to keep the overall area occupied by each month consistent.  Is there a way of doing that with software?  Somhairle will likely have ideas.  Drawing a faint line for dividing it up into each month, and then making sure that the area of the curve above and below that line is roughly equal, should do the job.

Use tic marks on the freezer paper template to indicate how to join the curved rows together.

If January is at the top, then there will be a bigger area of cool temperature colours at the top than at the bottom.  Sky, then mountains, then a lake?

Make it wider than it is tall.

If going for a mountainy vibe, look at Scottish landscape pictures.  Tilt the colours more towards cool and greyed tones, perhaps put in lavenders in an unexpected place in the colour order, browns.

Alternatively, the summer could be a gold and fiery explosion coursing along the middle.  Think sun mosaics.  Some sort of triangles?

Use the 2019 quilt to get an idea of temperature distribution.  See how it works out to vary the high/low proportions according to the day/night length.

There will be much more distinct lines for each row this way, as an entire row will be highs, then lows, alternating all the way through.