Oh my goodness! That looks like a BIG booboo for you to fix. Maybe Parker needs a sturdy, tightly woven quilt until he gets past the poking stage. I don’t think I would have the stamina to figure out how to repair that one. More power to you Alison! Sending prayers to the expectant parents too.

What Jody said… 😉 But I do think your plan is sound, and it will give Parker’s blanket character and strength. Isn’t that what life is all about?

Thanks for sharing your family’s joy with us!

I think you have hit on the best solution. To try to fix it in any other way than stockinette boggles. Maybe, since he seems to really want to stick his hand in, leave a hand-sized opening and buttonhole stitch all the way around to reinforce it?

I like Mary’s idea, just one special hand hole might not seem so punishing as stitching the whole thing closed. And just maybe Parker won’t feel the need to create another hole. And, yes, you have it right for stockinette. If you need purl just flip the whole thing over, much easier than trying to purl-crotchet from the front. You are a cool Grandma!

Oh! My husband took one look at the blankie and said, “Maybe he wants a poncho.” Just in case you need another project on the needles. 🙂

Blankie Hospital. I love it! I wouldn’t have any idea how to repair that Blue Monsker, but one goofy thought did occur to me. A deliberate hole with a button closure. How ’bout dat!

It may be easier to catch the stitches at the bottom with a straight needle, and carefully knit across each row of hanging yarn. That way you don’t have to continually finagle the looseness of extra yarn in each stitch vertically.

Let me know if you’d like some help with it!

I bet once you pick up stitches at the bottom on a dpn you would be able to knit most of them, maybe just chaining up a few on each end. Regardless, a scar would be quite noble. The repair will be a labor of love, as will the birthing of those twins!

This is just what I would would want: something lovingly knitted and lovingly worn to shreds! My youngest dd, now age 35, has a blankie her grandma knit for her that is in about the same shape. It’s in her bottom dresser drawer — she won’t part with it, nor does she want it repaired.
I knit the same (revsible checkerboard) blankies for each of my 4 grandsons, and the one the 22-year-old has in pretty good shape. He won’t part with it either!
What have we wrought LOL? !
P.S. Jody suggested a quilt, and I’m here to tell you my grandsons wore the quilts I made to pieces — truly just what I wanted!

that’s a really big fix — wow! and I’m happy to see I’m not the only grandma that delivers big projects with “guarantees” this idea for us began with the first lap quilt made for my son in law, and has continued on — they are all guaranteed for a large number of things (including being used as superman’s cape!) and I’ve done some repair work from time to time, but none as bit as this! good luck!!