You've seen them all over the internet: beautiful, giant granny square blankets of all your favorite 8-bit characters. Mario! Link! Sonic! And they're all just squares, right? "I can learn to crochet," you tell yourself. "I can make a simple square," you tell yourself.

WRONG.

Yes, crochet granny squares are easy. But making 200+ of them? Filling up boxes and boxes of carefully counted squares? And, the most important part that nobody tells you about, SEWING 200 SQUARES TOGETHER? You will spend dozens of hours making squares. You will spend MORE hours piecing the whole thing together. It will be your nightmare.

Friends, it doesn't have to be this way. I recently had a good friend of mine announce a pregnancy, and knew immediately that I needed to make her a Kirby blanket. I, like the rest of humanity, am LAZY by nature so I set out to make a simple no-nonsense blanket that would actually get done before the baby was born. Thus! I present to you: a granny square blanket with only ONE round per square, is attached together as you go, and only has one tail per square to tie off. It takes me less than three minutes to make a square... and so with Kirby's 204 total pixels, I had it done in less than 10 hours.