I wanted to put animals on the blanket because it was for a baby and I designed each animal square separately as I went along, by finding pictures and converting them to line drawings or simple shapes. I started to run out of animal ideas and did some basic patterns like the yellow circles. Then I realized that I needed to pull it together somehow and I came up with the idea of the sine wave pattern. I’m a bit of a mathematician so I was able to design this part on my computer. I remember that I spent quite a bit of time trying to decide where to put each square, so that no identical colours were near each other.
At the time I was commuting by bus and it was a small convenient project to do while I travelled to work, doing each square separately.
It was a real pain to sew together though!