Jacqui told Buzzfeed News that the idea came to her in the days following her mother's lung transplant back in 2009. "While I was asleep, a big loud booming voice said to me, 'You have to knit and it needs to be big'".

"The command was as terrifying as it was profound and it woke me from my sleep. But I had asked for guidance from the universe for so long that I didn't dare question my vision. There was no way I wasn't going to listen to it."