Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas original story was based off a poem creator Tim Burton wrote long before production began, when he was an animator at Walt Disney Studios in the 1980s. Three pages long, written in a style similar to Dr. Suess, and accompanied by sketches and notes, it wasn’t until a decade later that his idea became a reality. Although the original concept was for a thirty-minute holiday TV special—like those from his childhood—or a children’s boo, Burton looked to stop-motion animator Henry Selick to direct a full-length feature film. Burton said, “I love stop-motion. There’s always a certain beauty to it, yet it’s unusual at the same time. It has reality. Especially on a project like Nightmare, where the characters are so unreal, it makes them more believable, more solid.” Working across 19 sound stages with 230 sets, it took starting a production company from scratch, 15 animators, and more than 100 puppets, prop, and set makers over three years to complete the film.

The gang’s all here! Enjoy your very own trip to Halloween Town without ever leaving your couch with this colorful cast of characters wrapped around you. Sixteen charts represent Jack, the Clown with the Tear-Away Face, the Vampire Toy, Zero in his doghouse, Oogie Boogie, the Duck Toy, the Mayor, the Striped Snake, Lock, Harlequin, Sally, Shock, Dr. Finkelstein, Undersea Gal, Spiral Hill, and Barrell. This throw is worked in one piece using a combination of double knitting and intarsia to create a fully reversible color-block blanket with the inverse of each character on the back. Slip-stitch edges create a tidy finish on this squishy masterpiece.