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handcrafted scarf consisting of rows of varying shades of reds and blues lays across the back of a white chair

Stephanie Scarf

Data Location: Ironwood, MI
Data date range:  January 1 - December 31, 1919
Data type:  5-day running average mean temperature

Crafted by: Teresa Souther Murphy
Materials used in project:  Wool sock-weight yarn
Project info:  I created a scarf for a cousin using temperature from the town/year her mother, Stephanie, was born.

 

photo of temperature scarf consisting of lines of reds, yellows, browns, grays. 2024 stitched in the border.

Temperature Scarf

Data Location: Kensington, MD
Data date range:  Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024
Data type:  Daily highs

Crafted by: Melanie Harris
Materials used in project:  Assorted wool yarn from my stash

 

A beaded necklace of several strings comprised of small beads in shades of greens, blues, and reds

Precipitation Necklace

Data Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts
Data Date Range: Jan 2018-December 2024
Data Type: 24-hour rainfall or melted frozen precip

Crafted by: Toni Chute
Materials used in project: Glass beads
Project Info: I am a CoCoRaHS observer and used the data I collect at my house. There are not 365 beads for each year (strand) but each non-green bead represents the precipitation from a 24-hour period during the year, sorted into different levels (trace, from 0.01 to 0.10 inches etc.) for comparison between years.

a large crocheted blanket hands from a line with clothes pins, made up of long rows with smaller rows of colors in varying shades of reds, green, blues, yellow and orange.

Tunisian Crochet Temperature Blanket

Data Location: College Park, MD
Data Date Range: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Data Type: Daily Highs

Crafted by: Emily Larkin
Materials used in project: Cascade 220 100% Wool yarn
Project Info: I ended up adding a 10th color (the reddish purple) because 2024's summer was so hot. My top temperature range was originally 90 degrees and above. I created a new one for 97 and above (which was consistent with the rest of my ranges). This was partly so I wouldn't run out of red yarn, but also to capture the heat wave. I ended up using nearly an entire skein of the new color (23 days!).

Blanket made up of rows of small circles of varying shades of blues, reds, yellows, and greens.

High Temperature Circle-In-Granny Square Blanket

Data Location: KFFC, Peachtree City, GA
Data Date Range: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Data Type: Daily High Temperature

Crafted by: Laura Belanger
Materials used in project: Stylecraft Special DK Yarn
Project Info: I borrowed a color palette from pinterest, using a total of 16 colors for the temperatures, and 1 background color. I ended up adding the 16th (dark maroon) color when temperatures soared above 100 degrees over the summer. The blanket is a twin size, with 16 days across each of the 23 rows. Still sewing in ends, but on track to finish by next week. This photo was taken before I added the border.

2 long scarves made up of lines of blues, yellows, and orange yarn representing two years worth of temperatures, in the process of being sewn together.

Akron, OH Over the Years

Data Location: Akron, OH
Data Date Range: Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
Data Type: Daily high temperatures

Crafted by: Shelley Melchior
Materials used in project: crochet. acrylic
Project Info: I have stitched 5 temperature scarves from 2018-2022 and will be stitching them together, side by side, to make a comparative blanket. Shown here are 2 years being stitched together. The project is still underway but will be awesome when completed!

Jessica Gwinn standing in front of the ocean holding the Bathymetry tapestry of lines of pinks, yellows, blues, crocheted to show each day at sea and the sea depth the temperature is from.

Crochet Bathymetry Blanket

Data Location:  Pacific Ocean near Johnston Atoll
Data Date Range:  Sept 14, 2024 - Oct 10, 2024
Data type: Deepest, shallowest, and avg ocean depth

Crafted by: Jesse Gwinn
Materials used in project:  Cotton yarn
Project info: The bathymetry blanket was created by NOAA Ocean Exploration Internship Program Coordinator Jesse Gwinn during an ocean mapping expedition aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer during September - October, 2024. Inspired by the classic temperature blanket, the bathymetry blanket takes a similar idea but instead showing ocean depths observed while mapping the seafloor near Johnston Atoll. Each row represents the deepest and shallowest points recorded in a 6-hour period, with reds and yellows signifying shallower waters, and blues and purples for deeper waters. The relative location of the color change is positioned to represent the average depth of the seafloor in the same timeframe. The finished blanket contains 97 rows, representing 582 hours (a little more than 24 days) worth of bathymetry data collected using multibeam sonar. Learn more on the NOAA Ocean Exploration website

 

Temperature scarf, consisting of scalloped lines of varying shades of gold, yellows, green, blues.

2024: Seattle-Tacoma temperature and precipitation scarf

Data Location: Seattle/Tacoma NOAA Online Weather Data
Data date range:  January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Data type:  Daily Maximum Temperature, Weekly Cumulative Precipitation 

Crafted by: Yvonne deReynier
Materials used in project: Wool yarn (Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift, and Elemental Affects American Shetland) and inadvertent dog fur.
Project Info: Crest of the Wave lace pattern, eight repeats across. Nine daily temperature bands at 4 degrees celcius apiece; six weekly precipitation bands at 0-2+" intervals. Overall, 2024 was warmer than I had expected. The year's most uncharacteristic weather occurred in August 2024, when we had two weeks with over 1" of rain each week.

Polaroid of a long piece of glass resembling a scarf, consisting of many different color lines representing temperatures over time, placed in a frame sitting outside surrounded by snow and winter weather.

Fairhope 2024

Data Location: 30.5468, -87.8807 
Data Date Range: Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024
Data Type: Avg Daily Temp

Crafted by: Kelly Samek
Materials used in project: Glass
Project Info: Not being a fiber artist, I decided to join in by making my “blanket” out of glass. I use temperature data from a station near my home in Fairhope, AL, that is available in xmACIS, a web application developed for the National Weather Service. The average temperature for each day of 2024 is represented by a glass stringer in one of eight colors assigned to 10-degree temperature ranges.

Polaroid of a crocheted blanket consisting of rows of various shades of blues

Randy's Birth Year Blanket

Data Location: Goshen, Indiana
Data Date Range: Jan - Dec 1966
Data Type: Average Daily Temperature

Crafted by: Lisa Clarke
Materials used in project: Paintbox yarns cotton DK
Project Info: My blanket commemorates my partner, Randy's, birth year, 1966, and the average daily temperature of his hometown, Goshen, Indiana. The historical weather data comes from the NCEI Past Weather Tool. The temperature in Goshen ranged from 1 - 86 degrees Fahrenheit that year, and I divided this range into 10 shades of blue, the darkest color representing the coldest temperatures to the light colored hot temperatures. Randy's birthday in October is represented by a bright yellow line. I learned to crochet for this project, and used the moss stitch. It's a perfect size for snuggling on the couch!

Close up of a blanket consisting of garter stitched mitered squares, sort of looks like scales made of lines of pinks, reds, and blues

Year in Temperatures

Data Location: Middletown NJ
Data Date Range: 1 Jan - 25 Dec 2024
Data Type: highs and lows

Crafted by: Elisabeth
Materials used in project: Hobby Lobby I Love This Yarn
Project Info: Amazed that I kept up with this project. Garter stitch mitered squares, 25 stitches per side. The border is crocheted.

polaroid showing annual high temps over years in long columns of varying colors of fabric with recent years being highest

Here Comes the Heat

Data Location: Maine
Data Date Range: 1926 - 2024
Data Type: Average Annual Temperature

Crafted by: Becky Jauch
Materials used in project: Scrap fabric
Project Info: This piece uses scrap fabric and NCEI's climate at a glance data to chart the average annual temperature in Maine from 1926 to 2024. In 1926 the average annual temperature in Maine was 37.1 degrees Fahrenheit. I represented this with the purple fabric across the bottom of the piece. Every subsequent year since 1926 is represented with a column - the height of the columns shows how much warmer than 1926 the year was, i.e. a column that is 1.5 inches tall was 1.5 degrees warmer. I used different colors for each degree - 37 degrees is purple, 38 is dark blue, 39 is light blue, 40 is green, 41 is yellow, 42 is orange, 43 is light red, 44 is dark red, and 45 is black. The average annual temperature in Maine in 2024 was 45.1 degrees Fahrenheit - exactly 8 degrees warmer than it was in 1926.

Blanket with lines of light purples, lilac, white and silver, lays folded on a bed.

Avg. Daily Temp Blanket, 1941

Data Location: Washington, DC  
Data Date Range: Jan 1, 1941 - Dec 31, 1941
Data Type: Average Daily temperature

Crafted by: Anita Silverman
Materials used in project: acrylic/cotton blend yarn
Project Info: For my mother. I added a silver yarn into the row for the day she was born

Polaroid of a colorful blanket with large crochet loops of bright colors in lines

Data Location: Newport / Morehead City, NC
Data Date Range: Jan 17, 2023 - Jan 16, 2024
Data Type: Avg Daily temp

Materials used in project: acrylic yarn
Project Info: data from https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=mhx

A large king sized blanket consisting of lines of shades of blues, yellows, and reds representing temperatures lays on a large table.

2024 in King size

Data Location: Harrisburg International Airport Middletown, PA
Data Date Range: 2024
Data Type: High

Crafted by: Josh Huber
Materials used in project: Acrylic yarn
Project Info: Janaury to December left to right

Polaroid of a blanket made up of 12 squares consisting of smaller squares of shades of blues, reds, yellows, green.

2024 Temperature Blanket

Data Location: near Portland, ME
Data Date Range: Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024
Data Type: Daily high temperature 

Materials used in project: Wool
Project Info: Each month is a center-out square with the first in the middle and end of the month on the outside. It got so hot I added an extra color white for the hottest days of summer.

Polaroid of a cross stitch made up of columns of greens, blues, yellows, oranges and reds, The top left half of each square shows the sea surface temperature and the bottom right half shows the reef-depth temperature. The squared stop near the end of the year.

2024 Ocean Temperature Crosstitch

Data Location: Coral Reef of East Flower Garden Bank, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, 115 miles southeast of Galveston, TX in the Gulf of Mexico
Data Date Range: January 1-September 11, 2024
Data Type: Average daily water temperatures at the surface and at reef depth. 

Crafted by: Kelly Drinnen
Materials used in project: DMC thread on Aida cloth.
Project Info: Each 6x6 stitch square, with a diagonal line splitting it, represents one day. The top left half of each square shows the sea surface temperature and the bottom right half shows the reef-depth temperature. Each color represents 2 degrees celsius. Each column represents a month, starting with January on the left. Diagonal lines without any color represent zero-data days.

Temps that stayed above 28 degrees caused concern for the health of the coral reefs, while having temperatures above 30 degrees for a sustained period led to coral bleaching. This is the first time in the reef's history that bleaching occurred in consecutive years. Only time will tell how well the reef will recover. (https://flowergarden.noaa.gov/education/bleaching.html)

Data for this project only ran through September 11th because the data buoy providing the information was torn loose during a hurricane and no longer transmitted data. However, the missing buoy (Bob) became a social media sensation and his loss and eventual rescue will forever be part of the story for this project. The final framed project will include Bob's story as well as context for the art and what it represents.

a large blanket covers a bad comprised of rows of shades of purples and grays

DC Temperature Blanket

Data Location: Washington, DC
Data Date Range: Jan 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2024
Data Type: Daily high temperature

Crafted by: Bronwen Rice
Materials used in project: Lion Brand Re-Spun yarn
Project Info: This yarn is spun from recycled plastics to help keep bottles and other waste out of our oceans and landfills.

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