The Sleep Blanket, Mark 2

A visualization of my daughter’s sleep pattern from birth to her first birthday. Crochet border surrounding a double knit body. Each row represents a single day. Each stitch represents 6 minutes of time spent awake or asleep

The blanket is 46.5” wide and 52” tall. To accommodate the transition to the crochet border, I added a few rows and columns of knitting around the grid of the visualization for a total of about 3,000 crochet stitches and 185,000 knit stitches

Averaging at just over 5 rows per day, I finished the knit portion in 73 days. It took a few days to clean up some untidy edges and add the crochet border, both of which were incredibly tedious and fiddly. From start to finish, it took 83 days to complete the blanket

The sleep data was collected using the BabyConnect app. I exported sleep events as CSVs and converted them to JSON to make it easier to transform and manipulate. This let me generate visualizations at any scale and access individual sleep events with JavaScript and Python

More details and photos have been posted in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Lagomorpho/status/1512102009956024325