Homemade Tetris blanket

Cory Doctorow 9:31 pm Sun Jan 17, 2010

Katherine sez, "This is a photo of the Tetris blanket I made for a friend as an Agnostica gift. It took me four months to make, and I wanted to show off a little."

Tetris blanket

(Thanks, Katherine!)

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