Anyway, the yarn for my ripple-along is from Knitpicks.com. 22 different colors of their 100% wool, fingering weight yarn named Palette. Because I am making such a large size, I thought that a fingering weight yarn would be best. I am doing a soft ripples afghan in 23 colors (I already had 2 skeins of one yarn in my stash). Five colors will be used six times, the rest will be used three times each (one little ball will give me 6 rows/3 stripes!). That is a total of 168 rows, 84 2-row stripes. It will be 24 repeats of the pattern, and approximately 72 inches by 84 inches; big enough to cover the top of my queen-sized bed with a little bit of on each side and on the bottom. All for a steal at $51.74... plus another paltry $3.98 for the two skeins I already had but that hardly counts because it is from stash *grin*. Still, a queen-sized afghan for under $60 - whoa!
Here are my colors:
and one sheet of my 3 sheet plan for the stripes/rows:
I am trying hard not to think about how unwieldly it will become. It will probably be an "at home" project after a certain stage. I guess I will find out. No rush on this one either, but from reading most of the posts here I can see that many of you are really ripping along on yours.
So many beautiful ripple afghans, thanks for the inspiration!
Peace,
Susan aka ZenKnit
9 comments:
Susan, you're so organized! I can't wait to see your blanket. :)
Wow, Susan, you have it all worked out. I am so imprssed by your organization. My Knit Picks is here, and my book just came, so I can't wait to see if I can "get" this pattern with my very old crochet skills. Can't wait to see your. Diana
Great plan. Love those colors "in the ball" - can't wait to see them combined in your afghan!
oh what pretty colorus- and you ARE organized! i'm just going to use scraps, myself.
Kim: Organized? Kind of more like obsessed. I love random looking things, but then cannot bear to "let go" so I have more of a planned random style.
Deedledumpling: Are you using Palette too? It will be great to see another one done up. So far I have 4 colors done already tonight! I had to look up a different description of the decrease stitch - holler if you get hung up.
Stasia: I am loving the colors so far too.
WOW WOW WOW!
i bow to the project planning guru susan! amazing. this is going to be one GORGEOUS blanket. can't wait to see it progress!
*Swoon* My heart is going all pitter patter reading your accounting . . .
Beautiful yarn too - picture update pretty please?
don't you just want to squash into all that yarn like a ball pit??? am I nuts???
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