u/highlighter_yellow

Couldn't find "HAALLLLPP" flair mods fix this for me if I'm wrong, I didn't read the rules and I won't.

Here's my girlfriend's precious most favorite item, the blanket she has been cuddling since she was a baby. Her meemaw made it for her, right before she lost the ability to knit (she got her license revoked for using synthetic I guess? Idk I don't knit.)

As you can see, I am being the world's best and most supportive partner. My gf didn't even have to ask and I said, "you know what? I don't know how to knit but I love you enough to ruin this item even more!"

So I'm almost done with step one here, which is completely disassembling this blamket. Next step: idk that's where you come in. I think it's knit but meemaw was also known to crochet? So I got crochet hook and crochet yarn that's kind of the same-ish color and it's one ball so that's more than enough to fix right? Dang if I know. I haven't researched fixing anything at all! But look how good I did step one!!! I'm very sure of my abilities and I just know gf is going to love it now that I've completely redone it without asking if she even likes this frankenblabket idea!

Also I'm diabetic, so I'll need VERY **SPECIFIC** *DETAILED* instructions. No links to videos or books or blogs or podcasts please. My insulin processing disorder means I can't apply things that are relevant, I can only do steps in order.

TIA!

QUILTS... I feel like I'm being gaslit 🔥 by everyone telling me that they are in *any way* comfortable.🤡 Seriously. SERIOUSLY. 😵You are telling me that stiff fabric with EXTRA SEAMS 🎉*EVERYWHERE*, 🎉is supposed to feel... pleasant? 😳 Lovely, even!? Some people can't even handle having tags in their clothing, but somehow this🪵 stiff abomination of the 🤢worst feeling fabric and🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵 thread and extra edges is anything but a sensory/textural nightmare 🌌 is absolutely wild to me (and I don't even mind tags or have other sensory sensitivities lol😇). And I'm not even going to go into🌈 aesthetics,🌈 because everyone has different tastes and is allowed to like what they like 💅(or vehemently not like what they don't), but... THE FEEL. 🤌WHY!?💥 Gifts for my babies were supposed to be used, and not hung up behind the crib or on the end of the bed? 🗑Everyone elses children snuggle 🐰ACTUALLY SNUGGLE🐇🐇 up to them as their blankies!? WHAT ARE THESE ✌CHILDREN✌ MADE OF!? 🪨You expect me to... touch this!?👊 WILLINGLY!? To try to RELAX 🍷🍷while having to 👐FEEL THIS on my SKIN!?💀 This lovely pillow case is supposed to be on the pillow I actually use under my face💋 and to somehow not have the pattern deeply imprinted into it in the end!? 🤯

And of course you can't even say anything,🙄 because you know how much time⌛ and effort🤑 and even money 💰someone put into making them. There is a lot of skill involved, and kudos to that🎻. You can't poopoo a gift 💩someone took months to make. Especially with some people, 👆👆where saying something is the equivalent of making war forever,🌋 and🙊 not saying something means there are innumerable more coming,😱😱😱 and at the very least having to 😴 interact with the pieces on all of the furniture 🛏when visiting. 🤮🤮🤮🤮

[Lightweight Octopus Bag](https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lightweight-octopus-bag)

I made a casing for the drawstring, added a lining and sewed some polyfill behind the eyeballs so the stems wouldn't clank around, then added a pocket because I am not spending my time wisely!