Crochet Weather Blanket App

🧵 My First Flagship Project

As the new year begins and school starts up again, everyone starts asking the same question: So, what did you do over break? Most students talk about trips they took or movies they watched.

Me? Oh, nothing major — just spent hours upon hours staring at my computer screen 🖥️ building code from scratch.

When the year turned over, I felt this spark to start something new. Something that could become the flagship project for CodeInTheHook. I didn’t want to just write lines of code. I wanted to make a work of art. Not just a product, but a creative outlet.

Easy, right? Hah. Not even close.

I knew exactly what I wanted the app to do. I’d seen so many temperature blankets while scrolling Pinterest and Facebook, and I thought, hey, I want to make one. Then the coding side of my brain kicked in and said, that’s loads of data… let’s build an app. And so it began.

There’s still a lot I’m learning, and yes — there were definitely parts of the code where I needed help. But honestly? It was fun. What started as a simple idea soon blossomed into a full‑fledged program with the very real possibility of becoming a working desktop app.

Eventually, I reached the point where the app could actually greet me. It wasn’t fancy. It wasn’t flashy. But seeing my own program welcome me felt like watching the first stitch of a blanket take shape.

Here’s a tiny peek at the heart of the app — the part that starts everything up and opens the home menu:

Just a few lines — but this is where the whole experience begins.

The welcome screen. The instructions. The menu that guides the user through their temperature‑blanket journey.

There’s a moment in every creative project where two parts of your world quietly decide to meet.

For me, it happened between a crochet hook and a Python file.

I didn’t plan it. I was just trying to keep track of colors for a temperature blanket — one of those slow, steady projects that grows a little each day. But somewhere in the middle of choosing yarn and checking the weather, I realized I was thinking about the blanket the same way I think about software:

• breaking things into small, manageable pieces

• designing a flow that makes sense

• creating something that feels good to use

• trusting the process, even when it’s slow

It felt almost like watching a transformation — not dramatic, not flashy, but the kind where you suddenly see how two skills you love can strengthen each other.

This app became the bridge — a place where color palettes, stitch patterns, and daily temperatures turn into data… and that data turns back into something warm, handmade, and meaningful.

And somewhere along the way, I realized this project wasn’t just about building an app. It was about discovering what CodeInTheHook really is.

CodeInTheHook is my cozy corner of the interwebs where crafting and coding meet.

It’s a place that celebrates the idea that creativity is not limited to one medium —

that art & logic, color & structure, yarn & syntax can live together and inspire each other.

This app isn’t just a “tool”...

…it’s a piece of art in itself that is used to make another piece of art.

A blanket of data.

A year expressed in color.

This app is the first real project of CodeInTheHook: the flagship of my philosophy.

f you’re curious to see more of the code or follow along as I keep building, you can visit the project on GitHub:

🔗 Temperature-Blanket on GitHub

It’s still evolving, but just like the blanket itself — one row, one day, one commit at a time.

CodeInTheHook — celebrating the art in logic & the logic in art.