Two blanket-related Guinness World Records have been set recently with the first awarded to students at Britain’s Warwick University who successfully constructed the largest blanket fort. Measuring over 4,651-square-feet, hundreds of blankets were used to build the fort which surpassed the previous record of 3,303-square-feet. Meanwhile in Ireland, a group of knitters have assembled the largest blanket in the world measuring over 21,471-square-feet. Record attempt organiser, Valery Larkin, created a Knitters of the World Facebook group requesting donations of segments that she then transformed into the giant blanket. The pieces came flooding in from 32 countries including Britain, America, Turkey, Germany, Sweden, South Africa, Singapore, Japan and Australia. The record-breaking blanket was confirmed by Guinness World Records before being cut into smaller pieces and donated to the Red Cross.…
