How to make a weather quilt with high and low temps for each day

January 22, 2026

I have a fun pattern called Weather!

You make flying geese blocks to represent the high and low of each day! the large triangle is the high and the small triangles are the low temperatures of each day.

This pattern is for making a calendar of the high and low temperature of a given year in whatever area you are in- I scoured the internet and link to a good site that keeps historical records for many years, in the US, though in my husband's birth year I had to just pick his state instead of his town, but local airports usually have records going far back, and I found one in Denmark for my birth year- though I had to pick Copenhagen, but close enough :)

That's really the "hardest" part of this pattern, finding the records and either writing them down or printing them!

Then after that you pick the fabrics, find the lowest LOW temperature and the highest HIGH temperature and that's the range you need.

Here I had 0-110 F! For each 10 degrees I picked a new fabric starting with purple for super cold 0-9 (or 10) then dark blue is 10-19, then turquoise, greens covered several degree increments, yellow, orange, red and lastly burgundy for over 100!

This was Anja's quilt, RDU is our local airport in Raleigh and 2014, the records were hard to print so I wrote them down, high and low for each day

Then I found color pencils that matched the fabrics and colored the numbers

visually it's just easier to see the colors!

It's best to do the whole year because then you can count how many high and lows of each color you need!

This was before I wrote the pattern, then I had the bright idea to print just blank flying geese from EQ and color them in instead and this page is included in the pattern!!

SO MUCH EASIER!

This on is Sonja's

(If you're NOT in a leap year, just ignore Feb 29th's flying geese and make it the background color)

There's room under the page to have a count of how many of each triangle you need- the large flying geese triangles are the HIGH temp and the small are the low temps of each day and you need double the amount of the small.

Once you have a rough count of each triangle, you can figure out how much fabric you need by knowing how many triangles go into a WOF strip and whatever size you're cutting and then doing the math that way. I recommend 1/4- 1/2yd of each of the colors but if you have a lot of one color then get 1yd, also depending on the size of the flying geese of course!

I used Accuquilt QUBE sets to make the temperature quilts for each of us and a different QUBE size for each of us as well! The sizes were wall hangings to big lap quilts!

Making 6 quilts total with this pattern, I counted each time and still I got some of the colors off by a few numbers so I saved the fabrics in a bin until the whole top was done!

This one below is Bjorn's, he was born in Florida, so very hot temps!

And if the high and low on the same day is within the same 10 degrees you cut out a rectangle instead!

When I started sewing them together, I did a month at a time, just because there's so many different sets and each day is different and I double checked while sewing them together.

Eventually when I had maybe sets of 2 flying geese sewn together (or rectangles) I started the next month!

And as a fun surprise I added a heart for the person's birthday!

Before long I had 12 rows together and added the rectangle background to the ends of the shorter months and then added sashing strips in between the rows too