Thursday, October 25, 2007

When You Least Expect It


The other night at Knit Knite, I was happily chugging away on my ripple afghan when I started to dawn on me that I had a very small amount of the yarn I was working with left. I crocheted a few more inches and then finally admitted that I would not have enough pink to finish out that row of the ripple. That's when it also dawned on me that as it was my fourth stripe of that color, I wouldn't have enough of any color to finish an entire stripe since they've all been used three times as well. That meant either buying 17 more balls of Cascade 220 Superwash, making this the most expensive blanket I've ever owned, or it meant that my blanket was done. Which do you think I chose?
I'M DONE, Y'ALL!!
Final dimensions are 67" long x 50" wide, when I originally was planning on 67" wide x 70" long. This, of course means that my ripples are rippling vertically instead of the typical horizontal ripplage. I have to say I am completely fine with this.

3 comments:

Laurie said...

I love those colors - it's beautiful! I did the same with a black ripple for my son a few years back...he didn't mind that the ripples were "sideways". :) It was still warm.

Anonymous said...

Your afghan is absolutely gorgeous!

L. said...

A very wise choice, Kim, and your ripple is just gorgeous!