Thursday, January 14, 2010

winter-red


I stardet a ripple again...just couln't help myself!

It's a acryl yarn from "wibra"shop, only one euro per 100 gram and I made all my other ripples from the same yarn. (it can easy be washed in the washing machine!!)
I just felt for this red collor....

Monday, January 4, 2010

Cinnamon Ripple


Started a new afghan for 2010 on New Year's Day. I'm using Berroco Comfort yarn for its non-itchy quality, and Susan B's pattern with the ridged option, size I hook. It's nice to be rippling again, after a lot of knitting in the past year or so.

Friday, January 1, 2010

New Year Ripple Finished!

Deliberately timed to finish today (I worked the final round of the border this morning), here, at last, is the ripple afghan I started on 1 January 2007.

After my mother passed away in 2001 my dad sent me all her yarn (in 13 boxes!). I wanted to use some of it to make myself a small afghan to put over the back of my chair and snuggle up under on cold days. The Unger Roly-Sport was the only yarn there was enough of - everything else was just one or two balls. But I'm glad she had plenty of the Roly-Sport because it's so soft and squishy. I wonder what she meant to do with it? I hope she'd be pleased with my choice.

Happy 2010 everybody! May all your rippley dreams come true. :-)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Another ripple

Ripple, ripple, ripple. I've officially caught the bug, thanks to Lucy of Attic24. I recently finished my second ripple for a friend's upcoming nephew (very soon now!).


My cousin called it "Land and Sky." I like that.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Two more ripples

This one is for a baby, what baby? I don't know yet . . .
miscellaneous worsted weight scraps.
This one was for a bride and groom. hmmm......

This is from old-style Wool Spun = fun!

This is a modified feather and fan pattern of my own devising.
Interesting how the same pattern can look nice two different ways . . .

Friday, August 28, 2009

My first ripple!



My daughter goes to university next summer and she chose the colours for this blanket. I am loving making it!

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Looking for some help on this blog

Hello Ripplers! Now that I am back to a 8-5 job and dating again after my divorce (yeah!) I need some help with this blog.

As you may have noticed that there are some comments on your posts that are -weird- or just links to bogus sites.

I can't delete comments once they have been posted, and I would rather not have to turn on moderation, but the only other option is to only allow comments from people in the group and that seems too exclusive.

Would someone like to moderate the comments? What will happen is that the comments will come to your email and then you have to say "yeah or nay". Pretty easy, but best done by someone that is on the web more than I am able to be lately.

First one that volunteers gets the job.

Thanks for reading and happy rippling!

Peace
Susan

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Look at how cute!!

Just click on this little rattie and it will take you to the website. This lady makes small instruments and has her trained rats take pictures with them. :-) How cute is that?!?!

I wonder if I could get Daisy to do this?

The website is in Russian, I think, so you will have to have google translate it for you.

I came across this website and it is too cute!! you have to go there and look at these cuties

Sunday, August 2, 2009

A blue and white ripple with granny squares from the Netherlands.

Hurray! The rippled afghan for our youngest son is finnished!

I discovered the grannysquares-pattern while I was crocheting this one...

...and loved these too! So I combined the two patterns.
The squares fit inbetween the ripples very nice and so I also made the sides into the stitch that you use in granny squares.

I used a 100% acrylic yarn, cheap but very strong (I use it for years for knitting too) and easy to go into the washing machine.
But what now? What will I do in those free minutes that I used to ripple?
Hmm.... I must admit;

Now I stardet a super big granny to become a blanket for myself. I choose the same yarn, but in the collors sand and white. I don't know exactly how it will look finaly, I just make up a pattern during the process.
Have a nice week, with lots of ripplin'time!
Greetings from the Netherlands; mama lieveheersbeestje.
(My personal blog adress is ; www.hetlieveheersbeestje.blogspot.com)

Friday, July 31, 2009

My rippleproject

I've only first learned to chrotchet resently. I'ts something I've wanted to learn for years, and this spring I jumped right into it, and with the help from other bloggers, I'm now well on my way.

The first projekt is this ripple. I'ts not qiute finished yet, BUT still I wanted to show it to the world. I'm so proud, and when it's done, a new one will be started. This time in more controlled colours. I'm thinking maby more dark and fit for the winter to come.


I'ts used cotton yarn, and i've been collecting it from all sorts of places. I'm amaced of how many diffrent shades there is to be found. :-)

Henriette from Denmark.
www.defemibyen.blogspot.com

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

My First Ripple


I made this for my cousins soon-to-be-born baby boy. I so enjoyed this whole project, from finding a ripple pattern I could actually figure out—I used Lucy’s pattern; I’ve tried others and given up on them (“There must be a mistake in this pattern!”), but Lucy’s pattern and photos were so clear and the results are just what I was looking for; to shopping for the yarn—I wanted organic cotton but all I could find was hand wash only, and I didn’t want my cousin cussing me every time she hand washed it with a newborn possibly crying in the background; to deciding on the colors—I made a collage of the registry items, saved the file on my phone, and went to my LYS; to actually crocheting it—much of which was done with cat eyes trained very intently on the yarn. I carried all those happy-colored Lily Sugar ’n Cream balls in a big basket and loved rooting through them all to find the next color. My cousin seemed to like the blanket, and others “Oooh!”ed and “Aaaah!”ed over it as she held it up. I got a few “Did you make that?!”s and even a couple “You could make me one if you wanted ....” As much as I love my cousin and wanted to make it for her and her new kiddo, I admit I was a little sad to give it away and leave the baby shower without it. I did give it one last, fleeing glance, sitting there on the gift table, as I walked through the door.

Monday, June 29, 2009

New and Old

Well, I started a BIG queen-size bedspread, oh, 2.5 years ago, my how time flies. I got it 1/3 done and realized there was No Way, so it went into a bag. I thought it would be okay for a nap-ghan, so i sewed the ends in. NOW, I know it must be crocheted back into the pattern from Crochet! May 2009 p. 52, they call Ripple Shells. It must be normal afghan sized instead of bizzarely long and narrow. Here it is, folded in half length-wise:



Meanwhile, among other things I made these reverse twins blankets for baby twins soon to arrive:

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Kawaii Ripple Scarf

I don't know what it was that made me realize that I had not rippled in years, but I think it had been that long since I've actually checked out this blog and drawn inspiration from all the wonderful projects shown here.

My latest is a scarf that is also inspired by this Kawaii trend that i noticed on Etsy. That is, brightly colored, super girly, often sparkly accessories and what not.

(That's me modeling the scarf)

I made it using Red Heart yarn and a size N Susan Bates hook. I think the thing about ripples that makes them so easy for me to forget is the TIME that's needed to complete something like an afghan. But, with a large hook, small project, and WW yarn- I had this scarf done in a few hours.

It's as bright (if not brighter), but a bit cooler in color, as pictured here and will be listed in my Artfire Studio when I'm done editing the photos for it.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Where are all the ripple crocheters?

Not much action here anymore.... This blog used to be so active. I really miss checking here daily to see the new posts! If you are interested in belonging to a more active blog, I've started a new blog for ripple and granny crocheters. If you would like to join then please come and check it out! you will find it HERE!

Monday, May 25, 2009

My Fiesta Baby Ripple

Here's my latest ripple using Red Heart Strata for the variegated colors and Red Heart solids for the others. I wound up having to use the solid colors because I couldn't find any Strata for sale at the time......of course, Murhpy's Law kicked in and when I was almost finished, I saw it at Mary Maxim's online (at least I think that was where I saw it). After running it through the washer and dryer it's as soft as a lamb and I'm very pleased with it as I know a little one will be snug and warm when covered with this ripple made with love. Let me know what you think.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

So Many Ripples!

It's been a long time since I've checked out the Ripplers, and I'm enjoying going back to see all the lovely projects!

I've done a couple of Ripples since I lasted posted, long long ago...

I finished a rainbow ripple for my daughter, out of Lion Brand wool (no pic yet, but she loves it, she says).

I'm now working on a ripple using Rowan Cashsoft DK--I'm very much enjoying the feel of the yarn, it's lovely and soft:




Rippling is still, after several years, a welcome respite from my knitting projects. So relaxing, so much fun, so many many possibilities!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

It is finnished! (pfft...)


My rippled afghan was finnished today! I am so happy...and my little boy too, as this will be 'his' blanket...

I have loads of this lilac and purple yarn leftover. What shall I make with this?

As my other boys like a personal blanket too, I have stardet a white-lightbleu-darkblue one already... Yes, I guess you can say that I am addicted to the rippled afghans..

I wil keep you all updated with this rippled afghan too of cource.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Update on my lilac-purpel-white afghan.


Here is an update from my rippled afghan! I stardet it last autumn (you can see that here ahttp://neisripplealong.blogspot.com/2008/10/dutch-rippel-along.html) and it is almost finnished... As you can see, my son loves it! It is made of cheap acryl yarn, so easy in the washing machine.





Monday, April 13, 2009

Baby waves

I'm nearly halfway done on the second of a pair of baby blankets for my soon-to-be arriving twin nieces/nephews using one of the really easy ripple methods I found on this blog.

Now that the kids like spending time on the playground, and are old enough I don't have to hover, I'm getting multiple rows done at a time.

You can find more pictures on my blog.