A finished project is something to celebrate!
This one started out as one of the throws I was making to go beneath my favourite painting, ‘Summer Flight’ by Carolyne Kardia
I was trying to choose colour and design to compliment the picture and go over the back of the sofa beneath. Not a good idea as it turns out – all the ripple designs I tried seemed to fight with the picture – they were not happy together. 
But experimenting was enjoyable and resulted in quite a few cushions and a couple of throws that have been put to good use elsewhere.
This one is much loved by Smokey the kitten. It has now become a bedspread for Little Miss M.
It took some time to work out how to do the edging, but with crochet this is quick and easy.
Filling in the rippled ends took a bit of working out. I just sort of made it up as I went along, but I think it worked out well enough in the end.
Smokey and the girls think so anyway.
Made with Stylecraft Special DK, 12 Colours:
White, Cream, Soft Peach, Fondant, Bright Pink, Magenta, Aspen, Turquoise, Teal, Aster, Bluebell and Lavender.
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Lovely blanket!
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Thanks for dropping by Corine, glad you like Little Miss M’s blanket, it was fun to make – just LOVE the ripples!
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It is truly beautiful. I love what you did with the edges, and the colours are so lovely! xx
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Thank you Janette. Glad you like it. I thought I would find edging blankets tedious to do, but actually it is very satisfying. I will add the colours to the post.
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Beautiful! I have a ripple blanket in my list of ‘projects in my head’, along with a night sky and a seabed, at the moment I’m totally stuck though, just over half way through a rainbow free form blanket, just waiting for my block to lift….your beautiful ripple might just help 🙂 xxx
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Ripples really are wonderfully soothing to crochet. I imagine freeform requires lots of creative decision-making, I’m not surprised you are finding that difficult right now. Loving the sound of your creative projects in-waiting.
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Beautiful colours and I like the ripple pattern!
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Thank you so much for dropping by Kim. Really glad you like it. The yarn is Stylecraft Special DK, which is acrylic and comes in 60 colours – I’ve nearly used all of them now!!! It is a 2,10,2,2,10,2, stitch pattern, click on this link to see what I’m on about!
https://daffodilwild.wordpress.com/2014/05/02/ripple-ripple-ripple/
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I can knit, but I have yet to learn to crochet. It is one of my resolutions for this year. I’ll be starting with something a lot easier than this lovely blanket though… maybe one day. x
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ooh exciting Kim! I taught myself to crochet from a book years ago and then used the book ‘The Happy Hooker’, until I discovered the internet!! Do check out Lucy’s blog, Attic 24 (see in list of blogs I follow) She does the BEST tutorials ever!!!!
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Just her size 😉
Nice border you went with, great job filling in the ‘v’ edges.
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HaHa! Yes, thank you, I started with the intention of writing the pattern of how to fill in the ‘v’s, but then I would have had to count and be precise and exact and really I was just too eager to get it finished!
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