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A Norwegian sky diving champion and computer programmer finished crocheting the Super Mario Bros. 3 World 1 map after more than six and a half years.

Over 800 hours and 100 balls of yarn later, 31-year-old Kjetil Nordin, of Norway, has crocheted his childhood pastime into a Super Mario Bros. 3 blanket. The tight-knit creation measures over seven feet long by nearly six feet wide. But this blanket won?t be used to keep anyone warm.

Nordin, who now resides in Denmark, earns a living as a computer programmer. When he?s not staring at lines of computer code, he chooses to jump out of perfectly good aircraft; he?s won two sky diving championships over the past six years.

?The hardest thing has been to accept that it took such a long time,? Nordin said. ?I?ve spent 800 hours crocheting and many hours researching and searching for the correct yarn.?

While he was crocheting the water that surrounds the World 1 castle, Nordin realized he picked the wrong shade of blue, which set his project back even more. ?It was almost purple, and very ugly, so I had to undo all of it,? Nordin recalls. ?That took an extra week.?

So what?s next for Nordin? He?s currently trying to figure out to hang his crocheted creation on the wall ? without ruining it.