Progress slow, maybe done by next winter?

My ripple's coming along, but it's turning out huge! I wanted that, because it's for my tall dh and ds to fight over for a couch blankie, but each row seems to take a long time. I'll get it done, but since winter's about over here in South Florida, I'm going to aim for next fall for a completion date. If I get it done sooner, yay for me. Meanwhile, it's big enough to cover me up while I'm working on it, unless one of our cats decides to take a nap on it at the same time.

What to do when the ripple goes straight

Hello and thanks for letting me join!

I am desperate to make my first Ripple blanket but have hit a problem with the lack of rippling of the first row.

I have made the mistake of retaining in my little head a tip about making your foundation chain. I think it said 'use a smaller hook than the main pattern' but fear now I may have made that up. Is that a real hint? So, my incredibly long foundation chain was quite a wiggle to get the hook into for the first row but I persevered.

It was rippling on the first, green row.

However, subsequent rows has made it straighten out, and the latter rows to bump up most unbecomingly.

I have never seen a Ripple anywhere that has bumps and ridges in like mine. They cannot be flattened so my too tight green row is effectively gathering them.

It is far too long anyway, taking a ball of wool a row so I am right aren't I in calling it a day and starting again?

Just thought I'd ask before I pull the whole lot.

Hope someone can tell me if my theory is the problem.

Many thanks and nice to 'meet' you all!

Hooking for Grandma

I'm so glad I found Lucy's pattern. I don't know when I've enjoyed working with a single pattern so much before. The granny square Grandma Wagner taught me when I was young is the only thing that halfway compares. Grandma made lots of ripples in her crocheting career, so I hope she's pleased with how this one turned out.

Last year, my cousin's youngest daughter, Katie, got married, and Grandma asked if I'd crochet an afghan for her to give her as a wedding present. (Grandma's in a nursing home now and unfortunately doesn't see well enough to make the stitches.) Yeah, I will! I did that one in hdc blues, Katie's favorite color. This summer, her sister, Jennifer, is getting married, so I'm hooking for Grandma again. (I sort of want to put that on a T-shirt!) Jennifer's favorite color is, you guessed it!, purple, so that's what I used.

(Cross-posted on my blog and Grannies and Ripples.)

My Funky Ripple

54 x 51

This is my 1st ripple. I started it in Jan. I love the bright colors. I just used leftover rolls of yarn from another afghan I made. Its not perfect, theres alot of little mistakes in it. But thats ok cause I just made it for myself :) My side seem to grow if I'm not careful. I've already started another ripple and its not perfect either. I will keep trying til I get a perfect or almost perfect ripple.

Thank You for letting my join the group.

Granny Ripple Finished

I used a "G" hook and Simply Soft yarn in Brites. The Pattern comes from a small booklet called Nursery Favorites by Leisure Arts. But I simplified the pattern and if you want to do that also or prefer not to buy on line you can use this pattern.

The colors are Coconut, Mango, Watermelon, Lemonade, Lymelite, and Blue Mint. The pattern I used was five rows of each color and two rows of Coconut separating each color. I worked my way up to the center (blue) and as you can see I did a double center and then worked my way back down the color spectrum. I am pleased with it and hope they will be also but I would call it more of a crib blanket at this point since it is so large.

Baby Ripple Hat

One more hat done. This one is called Ripple Baby Hat and was made using the cotton flocked ribbon yarn and Sassy Stripes by Moda Dea in the color Rave. This was a quick hat to work up and would of been even faster if I had not chosen to change colors.

Thanks for looking,
Ghost

Granny Ripple Baby Blanket Coming Along

I am far from finished and my hooks are never still between this and other projects. But I am gaining on it and just wanted to show the progress so far.

Palette Ripple

There are some great new projects here, how exciting!

A new ripple has been a long time in the conceiving stage. I'd wanted to make one that I liked as much as my old Rowan Ripple, but couldn't find just the right yarn. Along came Knitpicks Palette, originally purchased for a finicky colorwork purse. At around 2 dollars a substantial skein, this fingering weight yarn comes in an insane range of saturated colors and is a fabulous bargain. I'm using a size E Clover crochet hook with ergonomic handle, and the whole experience is delightful--the yarn isn't splitty, but moves along the hook with speed and ease and shows the swoops and peaks of the ripple pattern very nicely. I'm in deep like with Palette, I can tell you. And I'm really happy with the crazy color combo of this blanket. All in all, a satisfying project.

Baby Blanket Ripple Beginning

I have started a new ripple for the new addition to our family that is to take place in October of this year. It is a granny ripple and I am using Simply Soft for the yarn in the Brites of Watermelon, Mango, Lemonade, Blue Mint and Limelight. Of course each color is separated with Coconut. I have only begun so all the colors are not visible yet but I will post another photo when I have a bit more done.

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....

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.

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. :-)

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.

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 . . .

My first ripple!

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

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

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

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)

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

My First Ripple

I made this for my cousin’s 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.