SSB Brawl Blanket: Diddy Kong

Alright so this is my Diddy Kong pattern. He looks a bit funny right now in my opinion so I'm going to have to see what I can do to make him look a little better. I'm having issues with the millions of strings getting all tangled and sometimes I pull them too tight so it's bunching in places. I'm hoping that when I sew them all together that they'll flatten out. Oh and I need some ideas as to what I should make for the back of the blanket. After all, I don't want all the strings hanging out. I was thinking of maybe just knit-writing SuperSmashBros BRAWL. Any ideas as for a background or maybe even something different? I don't want to make it too complicated though because I don't have much time to create this. Less than a month actually. Yikes! I better get moving.