CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas —
As the year comes to an end, many may be scrolling through pictures of their favorite memories to look back on the year.
With her crochet skills and a lot of patience, instead of pictures, Lillian Hiracheta will be able to look back at year-long crochet project that reflects everyday of the Coastal Bend's weather.
From the multiple 100-degree days we faced this summer to the cooler days we're seeing today, she has it all documented on her 2023 crochet temperature blanket.
"I have a legend at the top that actually is a key that lets you know what color the temperatures are. Each square represents a day, and I've separated the months with a white square in-between," Hiracheta said.
She was inspired to make her own temperature blanket after seeing different variations of it circulating around the online crochet community.
"It's kind of like a jubilee thing there that I have it on record, and I can visually see what that year was kind of like," she said.
Each color-coordinated square represents a day of the year. The colors on the front of the blanket represents the day's high temperature, and the back of the blanket represents the day's low.
The blanket even has squares representing Tropical Storm Harold and the annular solar eclipse!
"I have also indicated all the days where the temperature was over one hundred degrees with an additional accent color. So, this year, we had 42 days over one hundred," she said.
This year's hottest days were marked with the deepest shade of red - a color that Hiracheta says she was happy to kick out of her rotation once those long summer months were over.
"It was very fun to finally break out of it and see different colors towards the end of, I guess after the Summer," she said.