Reminds me of my cousin's blanket - but she would eat the fuzzies off of it until you can see through it.

When my daughter Sarah's blanket started falling to pieces(literally) I made a fabric bag for one of the chunks and she slept with it under her pillow and would take it to sleepovers so no one knew she still had a blankie. It may have even traveled to college freshman year but now this piece still lives at my house in its small bag.
Suzanne

My niece always used to complain when her 'goygoy' was washed, because it didn't taste so good. It had started life as the curtain of her cot, and she used to pull it through the bars and suck it, while muttering goygoygoygoy. No, we don't know either.

Yeah, I know what you mean. When my son was 5, I sewed a hoodie for him that he wore everywhere. After a bit, he stopped wearing it but resisted any attempt to pass it on. When he was about 8, I tried to throw it out. He squeezed himself into it and tried to convince me it still fit. The sleeves were at his elbows and the bottom didn't cover his stomach, but "it still fits, Mom."

What a well-loved blankie! Thanks for the Python references, brought a chuckle to my morning.

I was so inspired by b's love for his blankie I ordered the pattern (way back when...last time you blogged about it). But I still haven't made it. My little guy hasn't shown attachment to things yet. When does that start? He's 9 months now.

I thought of you and the blankets recently because my son loves the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books. The boy in the book has a young sibling who has a lovey he calls "thingy" which is described as being "bits of string held together with raisins and snot". Made me laugh!

Oh, poor gack gack... :(

Could it be reworked into a scarf for him? I had a niece who loved the bottoms of PJs like a blankie. Eventually, they got cut up and made into a quilt for her bed. I realize the knitting doesn't work quite the same, but perhaps it could be remodeled?

Why, exactly, must he give it up? I still have MY blankie, and it looks pretty much like that. And I'm 39. (Please don't send for social services. It's in a box under a bed in the guest room. I don't still drag it around. Much.)

Is there a less holey section that could be made into a pillow? He could still cuddle with it, without the blankie stigma. Plenty of people have a favorite pillow.

There's a lot of life left in that blankie yet!

My son's is just wool, tied into a knot by the silky ribbon. It has always been his Ha!Ha! It holds happy memories and neither of us would part with it. He's almost 27.

B would love you all for saying he should keep his blankie!

I don't want to take it away, but it's getting very knotty and nasty (the wash helped a little with that though). And I should point out that I did knit him a new blankie two years ago when wee one was born. Both the boys' blankies were in bad shape and so I made them new ones to their own specifications - they even picked out the yarns. S took to his right away, but B still clings to his old one. I keep thinking he eventually realize that it's time to transition to the new one like his brother did. I guess I'm learning they're not so exactly alike after all!

My younger daughter has "Blankie" who looks much like that: a bit better, but would have been worse if a few years ago, a friend hadn't taken pity on Blankie's imminent disintegration and, at my request but her inspiration, quilted 'her' into a quilt top with a fleece backing. It stabilized Blankie a lot and prolonged 'her' life (Blankie IS a 'she'!) immensely.

The idea came from my husband, whose grandmother took his beloved ratty blankie and used it as quilt BATTING, basically, when it was no longer presentable, then gave him the quilt. It was special to him as a kid; teen and young adult, even.

Blankie is still on my soon-to-be-11-year-old's bed....doesn't go to camp or sleepovers any more, but that's just in the last two years, I think.

LOVE that idea, Cathy-Cate! Very sweet.

My daughter (30) still has hers and loves it... doesn't look MUCH better than this one. And Monty Python, or not, she won't give it up!

I remember my mom telling about my brother and the disintegration of his blankie. He didn't hold the blankie itself--he dragged it around by the tag. When the tag fell off he just carried the tag around and worked it between his fingers. The blankie had just been an annoyance he was glad to be rid of.

If you want to make a quilt out of blankie.... You could use a fine mesh or tulle on top to hold blankie in (kind of like they do with mixedmedia quilting). Or you could just quilt more where the blankie is unraveling, making sure to quilt over loose ends. Good luck!

Does he take it to school or in public? If not, IMHO I'd suggest there is no problem. My sister had a blankie back when. She's 48 now anyway.

oh dear. I hope B's tummy is feeling better. Funny how attached kids can get. I also had something I was attached too...not a blanket though. My kids don't seem to get attached. They both of blankie made by their aunt.

What if you saved about 4 inches of "good blankie," trimmed it with left over yarn and made a scarf out of it?

My three sons (now in their 30's) all had blankets and each one had it's own word. "Duh-ga-dee" was the first one's and it was just strings when I finally consigned it to a trunk. I gave him the last pieces a few years back! Something about this connection must've really gotten to me, because now I make blankies for Project Linus and I hope each one gives that kind of comfort and connection to a little one.

Sweet blankie... my sister has the remains of hers and secretly still sleeps with it. It's now all tied up in a tidy knot. Perhaps you'll have to knit a replacement?

My dad is nearing seventy, and he's still bitter that his mother made him get rid of his teddy bear when she thought he was too old for it and the bear was too ratty.

As a result of his experience, I got to keep my childhood teddy bear no matter how icky it got, and (forty years later) I am having it shadow-box framed to hang in my youngest's bedroom.

I say let your son keep th eblanket until it disintigrates on its own.

If you wanted it to appear more "bkanet like" you could ask a friend with a serger to serge an edge around a relatively intact portion of the blanket.

So glad it survived the wash! Poor little guy! Your son, I mean! LOL
The quilted idea is awesome! All I could come up with was crochet around the holes and tattered edges! Good luck and may Blankie live on!

I was also thinking of something like the quilting idea with maybe some patches over the worst hole-filled areas (though not the ones near the end, they might just need to go). It's still wonderful that it has lasted so long and is so loved!