Yay! I started my first Ripple afghan. I've looked through all of your beautiful photos and I am very excited to start one of my own. I had a hard time choosing colors that my son would like but finally found some that he would be happy with.
I'm pleased with the progress and found the pattern easy to follow.
Blessings to all of you ripplers who also share the honorable title of Mother. :) What a tricky, difficult, wonderful job it can be! I have four children between the ages of five years, and nine months, of age. Two girls and two boys. They are awesome, and I am so overjoyed to be their mother!
Yes, I've got it bad.....very bad. So much so that I'm contemplating beginning a third ripple and this is before I've even begun to complete the two I've got going at present. You all know it's your fault because before I joined your forum I was knitting (bad word, here) and crocheting things in a normal (is there such a thing for us crafters) fashion and now, I'm all into rippling way too much.
I have started on the 3rd repeat and I am LOVING this ghan! This has to be one of my favorites that I've ever made and I've been making ghans for 30+ years! Here it is laying across my king sized bed:
I've finished my practice piece and ready to start a new one. I have some Caron Simply Soft, red, white and green I'm dying to try. I've also got to get some baby yarn, yellow, green and white, when I make up my mind on the pattern (waves, but crocheted or knitted--haven't decided which). My first grandson's (my first grandchild), is having a baby of his own...he's not having it, she is. But just the same, I can hardly believe I have grandchildren old enough to have babies of their own. Wow, where did the time go? 
for the bed. And it was my practice piece. It turned out to be 59" X 35". 
I made a Soft Waves ripple for a friend of mine that took me exactly one week and one day to make (I was kind of on a deadline; I'll post the pictures once I get them off my camera). I liked making it so much that I decided to start a ripple for myself. It's true what everyone says: once you start rippling, it becomes addictive and you can't stop. I picked out the Pink Ripple pattern stitch from Jan Eaton's 200 Ripple Stitches, which is similar to the Soft Waves because it uses the double crochet, but different enough to prevent me from getting bored from making another afghan with the same pattern. I had a variegated yarn in blue, pink, white, and yellow and the corresponding solids, so it decided to become a ripple! My mom took a picture of me crocheting with her new cam, and I played around in photo shop to make the colors stand out. This is the only picture of me crocheting, and I've been doing this for eight years. Anyway, I love the blanket and I have come quite a ways in just two days. Since it is getting into the triple digits here in Phoenix, I'm trying to make it quickly to prevent it from being on my lap too long. Even though it's really hot here during the summer, I get really cold at night, so I'm making this ripple to cover me at night. I used a size K crochet hook, so the stitches are more open and not as bulky. Plus, it goes much faster.
