It’s stash-busting time. How did my stash of yarn get so big?!
To use up some Stylecraft Special DK, I made a baby blanket in one of the most relaxing patterns to crochet – Attic24’s Neat Ripple .
It was easy to carry around and do in any odd moment – I always have one such project on the go. It lives in the car.
I used a 4.5mm hook
The final measurement is 40″ x 30″ which is 1m x 85cm
Choosing soft colours, with pinks as the starting point, I arranged the colours in rainbow order.
A friend saw the blanket on Instagram and said she thought they look like Unicorn Colours – what do you think?
The colours: Sherbert, Cloud Blue, Wisteria, Clematis, Soft Peach, Candy Floss, Fondant, Shrimp, Blush, Buttermilk, Lincoln, Spearmint, Duck Egg, Spice, Powder Pink,
The foundation chain was 140 + 3
Most of this blanket was made with two rows for each colour.
The colour order:
Sherbert, Cloud Blue, Wisteria, Clematis, Soft Peach, Candy Floss,
Fondant, Shrimp, Blush, Buttermilk, Lincoln, Spearmint,
Duck Egg, Sherbert, Cloud Blue, Wisteria, Clematis, Soft Peach,
Candy Floss, Fondant, one row of Spice and one row of Shrimp,
Buttermilk, Lincoln, Spearmint, Sherbert, Cloud Blue, Wisteria,
Powder Pink, Soft Peach, Candy Floss, Fondant, Spice, Buttermilk,
Lincoln, Duck Egg, Spearmint, Sherbert.
Edging
Row 1, filling in the ripples: Spearmint
Row 2, in Double Crochet (US) Treble Crochet (UK): Powder Pink
Row 3, in SC (US), DC (UK)
Row 4, shell stitch in Spearmint.
I did not have a recipient in mind when I started it, but as often happens, someone sees what I am making, says they love it and Ta Dah! it finds it’s home.
A friend saw me making this one and would like to give it to a new baby due to arrive in January. Perfect!
that blanket is gorgeous! I love the colors
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Thank you Helen. I absolutely loved putting them together.
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Beautiful 💕
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Thank you.
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The colours make me think of seaside cottages! I am not sure that I would cope with such a repetitive pattern but can see that for odd moments in the car it would be good – no wondering where you had got to!
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The Seaside Unicorn Sorbet colourway!
Yes, i always have a repetitive, mindfree project on the go for odd moments.
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Lovely! Unicorn colours eh? 🤔 😁
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A ‘My Little Pony’ Unicorn perhaps!?! 😉
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Darling!
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🙂
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❤️❤️ Ice cream or cotton candy! It is a gorgeous blanket for a lucky little one! I can’t wait to see your next stash buster Sandra!
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The next one is waiting in the wings. 😉
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Pretty enough to make me wish I could crochet properly!
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❤
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This is so beautiful! I want to make one. How tough is the pattern?
I think it looks like the ice cream of summer too!
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The pattern is easy and Lucy has a wonderfully detailed photo tutorial, just follow the link – you can’t go wrong! 🙂
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Ok great as I know how to crochet, but it’s been a while
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Ooo – let me know if you give it a go. ❤
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I will:(
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The blanket is gorgeous! Pastel rainbow sounds right 👍
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Glad you like it Kellie.
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Absolutely lovely! So glad this blanket has found a little one to cover and keep warm. Unicorn Sorbet is a perfect name.
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Now I want to eat Unicorn Sorbet – it would have to have edible glitter and popping candy on it!
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Yum!
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Very pretty! I have a bit of a stash of Stylecraft colours but it’s not balanced too many blue and no orange and hardly any red.
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I have just started a pastel blue one, but not rainbow this time.
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Stripy blankets are a great way of using up stash aren’t they and this is a lovely one and it already has a home to go to! So a win, win, win.
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Stripes are just perfect for quick easy projects.
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what a gorgeous combo of delicious colours ^^
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Now I’m thinking of sorbets and ice creams – yes delicious is right!
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It’s gorgeous, I learnt to crochet to make the Attic 24 ripple blanket 🙂
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A very good reason!
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that’s gorgeous. Thanks for the link to the pattern.
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I really enjoyed putting these colours together.
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Unicorn colours but without the sparkle! Actually, the sparkle comes from all those scrumdidliumptious colours, like a giant sorbet!
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Perhaps I should call this colour combo Unicorn Sorbet! 🙂
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yes I suppose they are “pastel” but to me they are ice cream flavours…pretty colour names for sure.
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Ice cream – like that!
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