Weekend progress

I spent the weekend basically reading and crocheting. Not a bad way to spend a snowy weekend! I forgot to tell you all the particulars of my project. The blanket will be about 56 " wide so that it fits over my son's twin bed. He wanted a bed blanket and not a throw. He had a heart to heart with me over my insistence that I make his blanket with wool or cotton (because I prefer those) and he was adamant that those fibers are not soft enough so Caron Simply Soft and Red Heart Soft are his choices here. I am basically following the pattern as stated in Jan Eaton's book (200 Ripple Stitch Patterns, Pattern:Ribby #106) and randomly using the colors my son chose. I randomly picked skeins out of a bag and then wrote down what I picked out for each repeat. I am really enjoying making this blanket. It is just like the ones my paternal grandma used to make, with the really deep ripples. My next ripple will be the softer waves like so many of you are making.

crocheting like crazy

Hi, everyone!

My name is Ann, and I am so excited to be joining this group. Up until now, I've focused on weaving, spinning, knitting, felting -- almost everything except crochet. But then I happened upon this ripple-along, bought a how-to-crochet book, and after a few frustrating starts, I was on my way.

I'm using a mix of Rowan Pure Wool DK and Filatura di Crosa 501, augmented with stripes of various novelty yarns that have found their way into my stash. Some of these, like the orange fuzzy stripe, have waited literally years to find a home in a project.

As others have said, or at least I think someone said this, it is amazing how each new color changes the look of the entire piece. I'm trying to be spontaneous with my color choices and resist the temptation to rip out stripes (like the pink at the top!) that don't initially seem to fit in. Seeing everybody else's afghans, so different and all so beautiful, is a real inspiration.

So now my loom sits idle, the laundry is piling up, and my kids are going through our other stash (of microwave pizzas) as I singlemindedly ripple along.

Almost Halfway

A few strips shy of being half done on my funky granny knock your eyes out what was she thinking afghan/bed thing.

Here she is in all her nouveau vintage splendor:





Just after I took the photos I added a few more stripes. Then I started to get claw hand, so I decided to start weaving in the ends. I have all the ends (sans the beginning and the last stripe) woven in. The edge looks good on that side. Humble opinion and all that.

I know that some of the colors are in the "only a mother could love them" color way, but I am the momma on this one, and I love my freakishly weird blanket child.

Peace,

Almost halfway done, I think

My ripple now extends just about halfway up my queen-size bed. And when I put it over me to crochet a new row it reaches just about to my ankles. I'll get full coverage about the time it becomes unbearably hot here in DC. What great timing! I'm starting to get a little concerned about color variety, but I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.

not much

to show you, since i've been sick this last week, which cut on my craft time. and, i've been pretty obsessed with my granny bag, so the ripples were left aside for a while. I did get back to it, since our rift is now past us, and here are some photos to show you:






This last one was at the moment of our rift. Now, I've added two rows of brown and two of green.



Two more of caramel to come. That's it folks. It's a big blanket, since hubby is both over 6' tall and a cover hogger! It takes me about an hour for each row, so it's slow going. Bye now

PS: This is a response to the comments, and seen as how it really fits as a post, I thought i'd put it here.

i had to do the border to cover all the mistakes from doing a few rounds of sl st without counting stitches... i cannot follow recipes, so i don't even bother anymore, but sometimes i get in these scrapes. fortunately, i'm creative enough to get out of them most of the times. and when i'm not, hubby comes to the rescue... which is why he deserves a blanket that actually covers all of him... poor thing, always has his feet bare in the middle of the night, in cold weather.
I don't know about the yarn though. it's two-toned, with some you could call lint all over it... i'll try to get a picture of the next skein to show you... as i'm basing the colour scheme from a portrait by van gogh (more info on my blog) and the blue is the main colour in the portrait, it should play a big role in the blanket. but there are at least three tones of blue in there, and i couldn't find anything that really worked with the portrait and with the other yarn, until the shop girl showed me that one. it was a perfect fit.
as for the granny blanket, i have it on hold, seen as how yarn is rather expensive in great amounts, and money is a bit tight around here, after my splurge on yarn this month... but i'm almost done with my granny bag!

Pattern available

Okay everyone, I wrote out the pattern for what I am calling Gentle Waves Round Ripple Afghan. It is available free on my blog in a PDF file. I just hope that there are no problems understanding my instructions.

Michelle
www.mikknits.blogspot.com

as i inch along...

Wow! there's so much progress being made by every one. i feel kinda bad for only inching along on my mini ripple. fortunately, i am getting better with not just setting it aside. so, inch by inch. i'm starting to wish i had started off with the brown because i like the way it's pulling the color scheme together. i may do the border in brown so i can pull together that bottom edge. the different textures of the ww yarns i'm using are working together nice, too.




I'm so tempted to start on the round ripple i started way back when. it feels like a year ago. what i like about working the baby one ^^ is that i can work it mindlessly. this needs more attention and so, it's in the bin.

Introduction

Hi all! My name is Lisa and I live in South Dakota. I work full time and have an almost 2 year old son. I've been following along on this blog for a couple of weeks and it finally gave me motivation to learn to crochet. I've been knitting for a couple of years, but it's so hard to knit with an interested toddler that I don't get much done. I had the idea that crochet would be easier to protect from wandering hands, and it turns out that I was right. Plus, I find that it's much much easier to recover from when a little someone grabs your work and runs.

I printed out the online pattern that many of you are using and taught myself. I find it to be incredibly addicting and take it with me everywhere. I am using cheap acrylic yarn that I inherited from my grandmother for three colors (red, gray, pink) and I purchased the light gray to go with it. I used the random stripe generator to make a pattern I like. I have only completed three stripes (SO much slower than the rest of you!) but am only attempting a lap-sized afghan.

Here's a picture of what I have so far, with the fourth color behind it.

Single Crochet Ripple

Hello I am new to the Ripple-Along, I asked to be invited as I am enamored with the ripple afghans and I love to see pictures of others in progress and once they are complete. I haven't done a lot of crochet in the last bit, mainly knitting but crochet is my roots. My mom taught me to crochet about 12 years ago, and I was instantly 'hooked', pardon the pun. I love to both knit and crochet, but what I love about crochet as that I am able to make my own designs and patterns a lot easier - I guess I am more accomplished with crochet.

So I am excited to be here and I thought I'd post a pic of an afghan I made a few years ago. It was my first attempt at a ripple pattern and it was done in all single crochet. Unfortunately our dog Oliver who is snuggled up to the afghan also chewed a big hole in it. I guess I now have an excuse to make a new one for myself too.

My mom has been doing some ripples with the granny stitch - they turn out very nice, but they sure do use up the wool. I've thought about doing a new ripple afghan for awhile now and I came across this site a few days ago - that was it the inspiration I've needed to finally get myself going. I plan to do one with different colours for each row(this will challenge my patience with colour changing..lol), and I want to give it to my daughter for Christmas. She's very fond of afghans made of more than one colour.

Any suggestions on yarn that works great and can pass the test of time? I was thinking of doing it in a TLC or maybe the soft phentex. I'll post some pics early in April once I get the project underway.

day 17

i've gotten several emails asking for some specs, so here goes. i'm using knitpicks merino style and andean treasure and a size USH/5.00 mm hook. i like my crochet fabric to be nice and drapey. and the stitch i'm using is softwaves from 200 ripple stitches by jan eaton.

i'm this close to being halfway down (give or take).



this may be my favorite color sequence



napoleon's claimed it as his

Gee thanks, Dawn!

I saw your earlier post about trying to adapt the soft waves ripple into a round pattern. It was like you put a bug in my brain. I don't know how to use schematics so I just picked up my hook and some yarn and fiddled until I was satisfied. Here is what I came up with and the colors I'm planning to use to make it after I finish my current round ripple.




I don't know how to write the pattern out, but I was hoping you could just look at my picture and tell what I did. What I can tell you is that you can follow a round ripple pattern like this one for the first five rounds to set up the ripple pattern, then to set up the soft waves, you would work 6 dc in the ch 2 space for the peak and 2dctog, 2dctog for the valley in round 6. For round 7 you would work 3dc in each of the top two dc sts (peak), then dc in next st, 2dctog, 2dctog (valley), dc in next st.
The secret, I think is working 3dc in each of the top two dc sts in the peak. You will see that the increases will happen naturally because on each subsequent round you will have an extra dc st between the peaks and valleys. I'm currently on round 12 and have 5 dc sts between the peaks and valleys. This is probably all clear as mud. Sorry about that. Just wanted to show you that it can be done! Thanks for getting me excited to start another ripple. I'm just a round ripple kind of girl.

Michelle
www.mikknits.blogspot.com

Well, howdy!

My name is Deb. I post mainly on my homemaking blog, Try-Hard Homemaker, but I am just about tickled purple to have been invited (invited myself ;) ) to participate here! I am a knitter from way back, converted to a quilter, and now, well dang it, I'm addicted to crochet. Okay, I admit it, I am a hardcore craft addict. :D

This is my first crochet effort. I have dabbled a little, here and there, but this will be the first time I have actually *crocheted something*. It is going swimmingly, but I attribute that mainly to a high level of general craft literacy.

Am I the only person here who is using yarn purchased from their local grocery store? :D Honestly, I have four small children; I'd probably have to sell one of them to be able to buy the yarns that some of you are using! My yarn is a *lovely*, cheap, acrylic 8-ply...I cut the grocery budget short to be able to buy it (just kidding...). But, it works.

Here is my afghan-in-progress. :D

My weekly update-

I didn't get that much done this week, only about 10 more rows. I tried to take a better picture though, this is outside on my deck and I think the colors are much more accurate.

Baby Ripple

Hi Everyone! I like you-all was so inspired by Jane's and Alicia's original ripples! I am so enjoying seeing everyone's different colors and stitches here!

I've been having this knitting tangent, very frustrating, something about crochet is just more "me". So what a wonderful way to "come back". :-)

I had these yarns leftover from other baby blanket projects, and one my daughter picked out. They are LB Pound of Love in white, TLC Essentials in bambi (pastels), and a RH 'something' in the lavender & pink shades.

Being a not-very-random kinda gal, I chose to alternate the colors in an A B A C pattern, which will work well with the amounts of each yarn I have too.

I have two other batches of yarn that have been "nagging" me that will work perfectly for larger blankets. One of Woolease in neutrals/classic colors, and another of eBay wools in some rather pretty colors that I think look beautiful together. Now I just need to figure out if there is enought there for a twin and a queen size blanket.

I am so excited!

I am so excited to be a part of this ripple-along! i love to ripple and have a couple of FO already to show you all! These two baby blankets i made when my best friend was pregnant. she decided not to find out the sex so i made one of each, one for a boy and one for a girl! she ended up having a boy so the blue one went to her! i still have the pink one....it looks like an ice cream sundae! The original pattern is from the Candy Blankets book by Candi Jensen. i am currently working on another one in blues, greens, and purples and will post pictures soon! thanks for letting me ripple along with you all!

I'm In...Here is my Ripple

Thank you so much Dawn for the invite! I needed this boost to get my hooks out. I have been crocheting since I was 7 yrs old - many years ago - and knitting for the past 9 years . So it was time to remember what I loved so much about crocheting (it is so much faster)!

Here is my afghan from the wavy lapghan link someone posted on this blog.
I had tons of Red Heart yarn in the basement in boxes - so this is what I pulled out. My dad is Cherokee Indian and Portugese so I thought he would appreciate this:

Take a look:
It is on the narrow side - with chain of 110 - but I will add rows of single crochet around the edge when I am done of all the colors - to make it wider.
I already have the makings of a second in my plans - different shades of blue with brown - and twice as wide.

A question for you all

I know ALOT of you have the 200 Ripple stitches pattern book and I was wondering... are they split for the crochet and knit patterns? Or are there more from one than the other? I just started knitting and I'm not to the point of doing ripples on the sticks. And I seem to have the problem with buying a book that has patterns or stitches for both.. and it being mostly knit ones. I'd hate to spend the $20-some for the book and it be mostly knit patterns. No where I've looked says much about this in the book.. so I thought I'd ask you all.

Thanks in Advance
Megan

My son's Ribby Ripple

Hi all, this is my first post but I have been lurking and commenting for a while. My name is Lisa and I am brand new to crochet. I started about a month ago. In addition to crocheting, I quilt, sew, knit and whatever else I feel inspired to do. I have a blog that you can visit to see my other "stuff" ( Bird Brain). Without further ado here are the colors my son picked out for his ripple blanket.

Here is my ripple so far. I am doing the "Ribby" pattern (#106) from Jan Eaton's, 200 Ripple stitch patterns. I really enjoy looking at the wonderful creations here.

Oh, if someone could give me some direction as to how to add the Ripple button to my blog I would be very appreciative. I tried for an hour last night and couldn't do it. I have that Junior High feeling that everyone else can do this except me LOL ;)

Finally, some decent light

I haven't been able to post an update lately because all the good natural light leaves the house before I come home from work! I finally got some decent pictures last evening. This one looks like an Easter egg!








I'm 23 stripes in, and I'm guessing it's about half as long as I want it to be, although I haven't yet laid it out on the bed.


Also, I cheated a little bit, as 4 of the last 5 colors I bought in the last week. One day I was upset, so instead of doing something unhealthy, like drinking, I went out and bought yarn. Maybe not so healthy for the checkbook, but much better for me. Then a lot of really nice yarn came up on cheapcycle for $25, complete with a cute basket, so I bought it as well. The last color came from that purchase. It's yellow, orange, pink, and blue variegated, and it reminds me of sherbert.


Just for fun, here's another angle:


I'm loving seeing everyone else's photos, and amazed that the group has grown so large, so fast!
Kelley

It's been a long, hard week...

Working at a yarn shop is fun, but it isn't always easy. When I think I'll have room enough to comfortably work on my afghan on the train, I'll take it, but that was only a couple days this week. Any more time I spent on it was once I'd settled down for the night, and that wasn't much. This week has been very busy at the shop, so I'm just exhausted by the time I get home. But after a total of eight days, I've managed to get in 15 stripes.

I didn't mention before that I'm using the soft waves pattern, but I also wanted a "waves on waves" effect, so for the first row of each new color I'm working in the back loop only. It gives it a great extra textural effect. You can see it a little in the pic. I'm enjoying working on this so much. I love the colors, and funnily, it seems to match whatever I'm wearing at the time! More on my blog.

Patterns from bowiechick...

...soon to be rippler. She's lurking and plotting and came across these she wanted to share:

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=e03056&categoryid=29

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=24220&categoryid=29

...and since i've had a slew of new rippler requests today, i thought to get them out of hiding in the comments post haste!

FYI, our ranks are 65 at the moment, but we have close to 20 outstanding invites! Once again, if you'd like to join and haven't yet done so, please leave a comment WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS or send it to me at: kyogadawn at visi dot com.

Rippling in Norway

Hi, my name is Hilde C, and I live in Norway. I’ve been reading this blog for a while now, looking at all the wonderful ripples and colours. Now I thought it was about time to participate. I don’t often start huge projects like this, but this one was to tempting to resist, and now I think I’ve got some kind of ripple-fever.
I decided to use colours I associate with autumn, which is a bit odd since I’m constantly thinking of spring nowadays, but that’s just the way it is. I didn’t have enough stash, so I decided to buy yarn instead. I chose Falk from Dale of Norway, which is 100% wool, because this ripple will be used in wintertime. I also chose this yarn because of the colour range, and because I can use a crochet hook number 6.00 mm. I tried using the stripe generator, but we didn’t get along. Now I find that I like the fact that the pattern of colours isn’t decided beforehand. OK, back to my ripple mania :-)

Mandi's Ripple

Hey Y'all! My name is Mandi and I live in NC. I started working on my ripple last Monday. So it's been going for almost two weeks now.
I'm making it for my sons bed, he picked out all the colors (some a little bright for my taste). Right now I'm 15 stripes into it (each stripe is two rows so 30 rows) and I have a long way to go. The blanket measures 85 inches wide, so it will make a nice addition to his full size bed when I get finished with it.
The picture below was taken a few days ago since then I've added 5 more stripes (red, black, burgandy, green and another navy). I will probably update the picture on my blog sometime this weekend if I can get a good picture ( my blog ).
I love working with what the random stripe generator spit out for me! It takes all the thought out of the project for me, and makes this blaket soothing and mindless to work on.
Oh I'm using the Easy Ripple pattern from here.

Just getting started

I'm finally getting started about 7 rows completed and lots to go. Not sure about the current green but I'm trying to get used to it.

Rippler Highlight of the Day

Hello-y 'Lo Ripplers!

I've been meaning to do this for awhile now, but you know life, it's pesky. I've been popping over to your blogs and websites as I can get to them, and I've seen some fabulous non-ripply stuff I've been meaning to point big neon winking arrows at. Today what I found brought such a huge smile to my face and totally engrossed the wee ones as well that I had to take a minute for show and tell.

Go to Stasia's Blog, Yarn and a Barn and watch the video. Be warned you will want to close up shop and jump to the country. Yep, Stasia has a FARM! With GOATS! And SHEEP! And that means fiber and spinning! Just color me every shade of green you can think of. And she's just a stone's throw from me too. Small world. She has some of her own patterns linked too, check them out.

Hopefully I'll have time to do this every few days. You are all just too fun not to share!

Your ever-loving Ripple Mistress, Dawn

I have the rhythm.

My afghan is humming along now. My son picked the Regatta pattern from Ripple Stitch Patterns, as well as the colors, I wanted him to pick a random pattern as well. I had bits of yarn for him to arrange and tape across a piece of paper. Being the First Grade Mathematician that he is, he created a very clear pattern to repeat. I tried to explain random to him but he was having none of it.
A nice winter storm is beginning and I am looking forward to a weekend of rippling.

Jessica
http://mamarevival.blogspot.com/

I STARTED TO RIPPLE

I finally learned how to ripple after trying out a few different patterns that curled instead of ripple. I'm still at the swatch stage. The pattern that I found was for a pillow and the direction was to cast on 74 stitches and start at the 4th chain so my next challenge is do mulptiple of 74 or 71 because of the beginning 3 chains. Am I making any sense? I guess I just have to try it and check it out for myself.

This is how my ripple blanket looks like 2 days ago.I'm beginning to like my colours better and better now. I realy enjoy working on it a lot.

Oh how slow my ripple does grow

I said I didn't crochet much, I'm abit jealous of everyone else & their blankets as they seem to be growing twice as fast as mine.

Here is what I've done since I last posted, I think I've added about 3 rows, more photos will be on my blog.
Nevermind like I said I only crochet in the evening while watching tv & I haven't done much of that lately, I've been so busy with other projects.

Check out my blog & you'll see what I mean www.jaggedrose.se

It is so fun to see all the blankets, I just want to curl up under all of them.

My Friend Ripple

I'm really starting to enjoy my ripple. I'm not sure what did it, but the last few rows have convinced me to just roll with it. I usually like to plan my projects, so it's been fun to just see what colors follow as I go:



I have more yarn on the way to refill the fruit bowl when I'm out. I'm saving some of the lavender for the border.

I'm so glad to be a part of this

After seeing all the marvelous ripples I just had to join in. I've been crocheting ever since I can remember but I can't remember who taught me how. Two of my aunts crochet yet they both say they never showed me how. Maybe they just inspired me to go out and learn.

My ripple is going to be for a child. It's around 45" wide. After looking through the 200 Ripple Stitch Patterns book and swatching several patterns I decided on the Malibu ripple. The yarn is Caron Simply Soft Brites. Most of the colors I had tagged for a different project but I changed my mind. After adding 3 more colors to the mix I'm up to 8. The colors in order of use are Lemonade, Limeade, Blue Mint, Berry Blue, Grape, Watermelon, Papaya, and Mango. I also have some black but I'm not sure if I'm going to use it or not.

Ripple progress

I haven't been able to work on this for a couple of days because I'm knitting a commissioned piece (work before pleasure, unfortunately) but hope to be done with that by tomorrow. My ripple seems to be just humming along and when I'm sitting in my "Big Boy" recliner, it covers me from my toes to under my chin. Can't wait to get back to it!

Michelle
www.mikknits.blogspot.com

The frog and the pigs-tress

Baby ripples are no more... A silly and stupid counting error on the 2nd row turned the WIP into a frog project. The wonderful baby colors are now balls again and in a bag waiting for another project. :(

So while digging thru my PIGS I found a bag containing a project I started in the fall... it was supposed to be a christmas present... it didn't make it. That too will soon meet the frog. Some how, I used 2 rather different hooks on it... and only now noticed the fatal mistake. So because I want so bad to ripple, this rather boring treble only blanket will now become a two-tone ripple.

Hopefully pictures will follow either tonight or this weekend of the starting progress.

Darn you frog pigs-tress....

Ripple, Day 16

Ripple, Day 16
Originally uploaded by kpwerker.

I took this photo with the blanket spread out on a double bed. It was so nice to have a sunny day! The edges of the blanket hang over the bed a couple of inches on either side and so far I've worked about 23". So I figure I'm just over a quarter of the way done. I'm happy about that - I don't want it to end!

Day 14

i've got about 10 more color bands to go before i get halfway.