Webcomic artist and father Seung Lee used an app to track his son's sleep patterns during his first year of life, then used that pattern as the basis for a knitting pattern for a baby blanket. Colossal reports:
Choosing to work with six minute intervals, Lee then converted the CSVs into JSON (using Google Apps Script and Python) which created a reliable pattern for knitting. The frenetic lines at the top of the blanket indicate the baby’s unpredictable sleep schedule right after birth. We can see how the child grew into a more reliable schedule as the lines reach more columnar patterns.
As Lee neared completion of the blanket, he shared, “All the disparate pieces felt really fragile but as I seamed it together, wove in loose ends, and removed stitch markers, it felt more and more sturdy. Something that I’d been handling like a delicate bird egg started to just feel like a blanket.”
The little tyke loves it, too. Lee says, "There's nothing quite like the feeling of someone loving the thing you made for them."
It would be interesting to see complimentary blankets for the baby's parents during this same year, assuming that they got any sleep.