Second Ripple Finished

This the beginning


I just posted the second afghan on my No-End-In-Sight - Ripple Along, where a lot of neat rippling is going on.

It was for my very first great grandson. He was supposed to be born in July and I was just about to make the deadline to get it to him before he was born and he went and came two weeks early. I finished it on July 1st and it's in the mail...on it's way to the Midwest.

It is really soft, LionBrandYarn, Baby Soft with a G hook. It washed up really nice, too. I decided not to edge it like I had planned. I really like the scalloped look it already had and figured I couldn't improve upon it, besides, I wanted to get it the mail. The Baby-ghan is 48"X48". I felt really pleased it came out to be square. I was worried for a while, because I wanted to end with blue.

Here is is finished...

My next one may wait a bit. I've decided on the colors but not the pattern. It will be a ripple, of course, but what kind I don't know yet.

New Baby Blanket in Soft Wave Ripple Pattern

I've started my first great grandson's baby blanket. He's due in July. I'm doing the soft wave ripple, using Lion Brand Yarn-Baby Soft sportweight and G hook. At first I was doing a lot of frogging because I was not paying attention. When I first wanted to do this project I couldn't decide whether or not to knit it or crochet it. Now that I'm doing it, because I frog so much, I'm really glad that I chose to crochet and not knit. I love the soft feel of the yarn. It should come out to about 45" square. Right now I think I'm going to use white to scallop edge it. I'll see how that looks when I'm finished.

You can see this project and many, many others on the Ripple-Along site. It's a lot of fun. We show off our starts, goofs, and finishes, using the myriads of ripple patterns in crochet and knitting. I've finished one project already, this is my second, and have fallen in love with rippling. I have started a piece to go over the back of my recliner in red, white, and green for Christmas. I'll show that later. I put it aside for now and got busy on this baby blanket. The baby takes priority over Christmas.

Ripple Progress

"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -Robert Louis Stevenson

The progress of my "little-boy-first-big-bed" ripple is coming along. I had inherited a bag of yarn and I had to buy a few skeins, but for random color choices with what I had on hand I think it's looking quite nice. Gretchen thinks so too. She is sitting on the floor admiring it, instead of siting directly on it like she would normally do, because we had a ceiling fan installed over the table and she is not sure if she wants to be near it. This is as close to the table as she has come since it was installed.