With free time having become more available to fans across the world, some are using it to get creative.

For instance, superfan Connie spent a couple of days creating her second iteration of a Stampeders fleece t-shirt blanket.

“Basically I had a bunch of old t-shirts; the oldest one is from ‘It’s A Snap’ in 2003,” she explained. “I have a really hard time throwing away anything that has the White Horse on it. I kind of hoard everything.

“I had an old fleece blanket that I got form a CFL Tweet Up at a Grey Cup and then I had all of these t-shirts and I decided to cut off the logos or whatever the design was and sew them onto this blanket. It was kind of a mish-mash, the first one, just kind of rag tag sewn onto the blanket.

“When I moved all of my mom cave stuff from the room upstairs to the basement, I pulled out all of these shirts from volunteering, things I bought, championship gear, things I’d been given, there’s always something. I didn’t want to throw them away, even though I wasn’t wearing them anymore, so the second blanket came to life. My daughter Molly and I were very thoughtful about how we cutout the shirts, so that it would lay out more uniform like a quilt. We spent a while laying it out on the floor and rearranging it to decide on a pattern. It took me about two days to get everything sewn onto a very nice, new fleece blanket.”

“The new one is way better than the old one. This time I sewed it on better, so it’s a very nice, cozy, double-layer fleece blanket to use in the stands when it gets cold. My daughter Molly now has the original one and now that she has her own season seats, she’s very excited to have her own stadium blanket.”

While both blankets are Stampeders-themed, there is a very constant Nik Lewis inspiration throughout. The long-time Stamps receiver is referenced eight times between the two blankets, mostly with references to the Nik Lewis Nation, but also with a personal design and a term that he created.

“There’s one shirt on here that Nik Lewis did the design for on the old blanket, it’s the ‘Feel the Power’ designed shirt with the blue,” she said. “Nik actually influenced the blankets a lot, as I have a lot of Nik Lewis Nation shirts on here, too. He also coined the term MollyG Nation, which we turned into a shirt. That’s a funny story; when Molly was three or four, we were at practice and she was running around the stands like kids do while we were talking to Nick and he mentioned that he wanted to be in Molly G Nation. She came to join us and she was chewing some gum and I asked her where she found it and she pointed towards the stands so I was like, ‘Spit it out. That’s gross. That could have been a Roughriders gum.’ ”