These 'temperature blankets' show a whole year's worth of weather!

All you knitters or crocheters, this one's for you:temperature blankets.

The basic idea is that, every single day for an entire year, you'll stitch up a new row (or square or circle or other shape). The color you chooseis determined by theoutside temperature.

When I first came acrossoneon Instagram, I thought it was something pregnant women did to kill time while waiting for baby to arrive. I thought these soon-to-be-momsweremeasuring their internal body temperaturenot the one outside. I can see now that I made it too complicated, and weird. To be fair, the crocheter of the one I saw haddescribed it as her "daughter's temperature blanket."

Anyway, it's a super cool and simpleidea. And it leaves plenty of room for creativity.

Most people start them at the beginning of the year, but you seem likea rebelto me. Start one today.