One of my friends, a fellow knitter, sent me a pattern for an 8-bit Mario blanket, made out of little crocheted squares that were stitched together, super-rad-quilting style. The pompous, overconfident crafter in me looked at it and thought “I could totally make this! All I have to do is knit a few squares and then sew them together! Simple.”
Roughly 250 squares later...
It only took me five months to finish all the squares–just three months too late to give it to my brother for his birthday, which had been my original plan. (Sidenote: to give you some perspective on the size of that giant pile, I put my shoe next to it…so many squares.) If I had known how crazy this project was going to make me, I never would have clicked on the pattern link. But I figured I had made it this far, so I got to work sewing all the rows together.
This blanket will be huge!
There were fourteen squares in each row, and there were eighteen rows total. Any mathematicians out there want to figure out how much sewing I had to do? It was a lot. BUT…
It's pretty much the coolest blanket in existence.
I hope the rest of my siblings aren’t too jealous when my brother opens this on Christmas morning…because I’m never making something like this again.
