B - Blankets

Blankets: thing

I really like blankets (and their cousins Quilts and Afghans). I never had a "security blanket" (at least that I can remember), but I think of the orange/green/yellow blanket with the squirrels on it as my 'first blanket'.

The afghan that my Grandma knitted(or crocheted?) for me to match my colored-stripe wall-paper in my first bedroom is also very special. I have at least 4 polar-fleece blankets on my bed right now, some made by former Secret-Buddies, or my mom, or my aunt, or just purchased (I also have one in minnesota, that was made by a secret-buddy-turned-secret-enemy, but I still use it). The Denim patch-quilt that was won at a church auction has also been on my bed since I stole it from my mom. Many of my blankets are blue and or bluandbrowne.

Blanket and pillow forts are one of the great joys of childhood.

The graphic novel Blankets, by Craig Thompson, is really really good. I read all 500 pages of it in one evening.

SEE ALSO: bluandbrowne, secret buddy, quilts,