2025 Temperature Quilt Finished!

It has been about a year and a half since I first started planning my first temperature quilt, and as of today, it is finished! That's not a bad turn-around time for me, but I've been very excited (and therefore motivated) about completing this quilt. This is my finished 2025 Temperature Quilt for College Park, GA.

2025 Temperature Quilt

57.5" x 76"

It all started in November, 2024, with a presentation by Jo Avery of the UK about temperature quilts. She inspired several members of our guild, the Common Threads Quilters Guild of Newnan, GA, to begin our own versions of temperature quilts. 

For my quilt, I came up with an easy-to-piece block design and selected a group of fabrics from the Glaze and Glaze II lines by Libs Elliott for Andover. The photo above shows my fabric palette, and below is a close-up of some blocks. The finished blocks measure 3".

I tracked the high and low temperatures all through 2025 and tried to stay caught up on making my blocks. There were a couple times that I fell behind by a month or more, but I was fairly close most of the year. The color of the diamond in each block represents the high temperature for that day, and the background color is the low temp. The dates run from left to right in horizontal rows. Even though we did a good bit of traveling in 2025, I used the temperatures for College Park in all of my blocks.

It isn't easy to come up with a layout that uses 365 blocks. When I decided to set my blocks on point, I realized that it would work out if I added just a few extra blocks. There are three blocks with hand appliqued circles on them. They represent the temperatures for my husband's birthdate, our wedding day, and my birthdate.

I had originally planned to include the legend for the colors and their temperature ranges in the border of the quilt, but decided to keep the focus of the quilt front on the piecing and the flow of colors. I made a panel for the back of the quilt with that information.

My temperature quilt was quilted by Kris Townsend Davis in a feather meander pattern with Brassy Yellow Variegated Thread. I love the movement of the quilting design, and the variegated thread worked out beautifully.

There were over a dozen members of the guild who worked on their temperature quilts together throughout 2025. We all shared our progress at the April, 2026 guild meeting. Several quilts were completely finished and others are still in progress. Our group coordinator, Sharon Hendrix, kept us all inspired and motivated. A couple weeks after showing the quilts at the guild meeting, Sharon shared the very exciting news that our quilts are going to be displayed at the Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum in Carrollton, GA, from November, 2027 until February, 2028. It will be such an honor to have our quilts exhibited there!

I've already started a new temperature quilt for 2026. This time I'm using Jo Avery's Sea Urchin design, which is included in her online Supernova class at The Thread House Academy. My sister Karen is also making the same pattern with temperatures for Madison, WI. Below is my February block for that quilt, and you can read more about the new project HERE. I'm enjoying continuing to track our daily temps in fabric.

I'm  linking up with:

Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter

Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday (TGIFF) at Slice of Pi Quilts

Oh Scrap! at Quilting is more fun than Housework

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA