Baltimore woman knits scarf with each color tracking daily temperatures
By Breana Ross
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WOODLAWN, Maryland (WBAL) — A Baltimore County knitter’s unique scarf is not only vibrant: Each color signifies the daily weather.
At a home on Cecil Avenue in Woodlawn, Rose Armentrout has an entire room dedicated to her knitting yarn and needles.
“I try to organize it by type,” Armentrout told WBAL-TV 11 News. “This bin is the cotton and this bin is the cashmere.”
The room serves as Armentrout’s safe space, a sign of her dedication to knitting.
“It helps you get through a lot of stuff. My husband and I both have had cancer. He is going through treatment now, so there’s a lot of hours spent sitting at the cancer center. So, I knit,” Armentrout told WBAL-TV 11 News. “When I was going through treatments, I knitted scarves for all the nurses and doctors.”
This year, Armentrout embarked on a project to knit a scarf that reflects the temperature for each day.
“I made myself up a card, so I do single-digits is lilac, and 10 to 20 (degrees) is purple; 21 to 30, and so on by 10 digits, within that range,” Armentrout told WBAL-TV 11 News. “I knit two rows, and whatever color I have decided for that temperature range, it’s like, ‘OK, I accomplished something today.'”
Armentrout first saw the idea on Ravelry, a social networking site that connects knitters from all over the world.
“My first thought was, ‘That’s weird.’ And then, it was intriguing as I looked into it,” Armentrout told WBAL-TV 11 News. “The original idea behind it, though, was actually tracking temperature changes. It was about climate change, to see how much it has changed over the years, and how we are being affected by climate change.”
Rose Armentrout embarked on a project to knit a scarf that reflects the temperature for each day. As Armentrout completes her first temperature scarf with a few days left in 2025, she plans to wear it proudly.
“I’m calling it my ‘Dr. Whoish temperature scarf’ because it’s very Dr. Whoish to me with all the colors, but it’s interesting, too, that you can see from the cold to the hot and back again,” Armentrout told WBAL-TV 11 News.
Armentrout is not finished with her knitting projects. She plans to knit another temperature scarf next year with the temperatures from her mother’s birth year, 1927, and compare them to this year’s temperatures.
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