The Ripple

Here is the yarn from my stash that I will be using for the ripple.

And Thursday evening I was quite naughty.

Yes I started on it.

I just did the chain row and two rows of the pattern to make sure it all fits and works out alright.

And it did!!!!

Looking good.

But I won't be working on it anymore now because I promised myself I'd finish the grey blanket first.

And I also plan to crochet some Christmas trees and stars to hang around the house for Christmas (in between that is).

Like these ones I tried out back in March when I started crocheting again and couldn't wait to try out.
Grandma Twinkle stars.

Grandma Tree.

Sewing it all together

In yesterdays post I said I would post a post with photos of my sewing together of the squares.
The light wasn't much better today to be able to take photos in the living room.
It's a rainy day here today and quite dark.
But these two photos are not too bad and you can see all the squares.


It's going to look great I think.

I took this one without looking standing on a little chair, it gives a better idea of what they look like.

I must say I'm pleased with this layout.

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

I haven't been at home much over the past three days because I had to go to work.
So I had a lovely lazy Sunday afternoon today.
However while at work I did manage to get quite a few squares done.
I finished off all the granny square I need for my Grey Blanket
And knitted quite a few too.

So here is a photo of all of them so far.

I also joined some of them together.

Now you might remember from an earlier post that I had joined the first row together.

Well I took that apart again because of the fact that I had thought up a new layout.

At the back of the squares in these photos you can see that a few are joined.

Well I have now joined the first row and also seven squares of the second row (each row has ten squares).

The light wasn't good enough to take photos of the joined rows when I was finished, so I'll take a couple tomorrow.

I now have just 17 knitted squares to go!!!!!!!!!

Now I know

In my last post I revealed my plans to make a ripple blanket after I have finished my grey blanket.

Well earlier this afternoon I took a look at my stash of yarn and I now know what I am going to do.

I've been thinking about this ripple on and off for a while now.

I am always like this I must add, that is that I am working on one project and already thinking about the next.

But I love doing it, I just love to know what I'm doing or am going to do, and getting the plan clear in my head before I start.

Well this week I was tempted, and I mean really, really, really tempted.

To buy new yarn for the new ripple project.

However I have a number of cream colours and beige and light browny colours and also a light yellowy colour that is more like a cream colour, that I could use up for a ripple.

Well when I put all the colours together in a pile I thought, this is it!

That is what I also like to have as well, a click, a feel good about the whole thing moment.

And that is what I had.

So that is what I am going to doing with the ripple.

Now If you have been reading my blog posts for a while you might be thinking and the ripple you started on then? what happened to that?

(that is the photo above)

Well I stopped with it.

Simply because the yarn I was using wasn't a good yarn for a ripple.

It was a really cheap fluffy yarn (that is wonderfully soft I must say) that splits a lot when you're working with it.

Now don't get me wrong I am using this yarn up.

Four of the colours I am using for the grey blanket are this yarn.

Now if you use it in combination with other stronger yarns it's fine, but no good to be used for a whole blanket by itself.

So I have a plan and I love it !!!!

Now back to my grey blanket.