Hi everyone! I hope your Friday is off to a fabulous start. I’m dropping into share my latest crochet project. It’s been happily received by it’s new home so I thought I would share with you. 🙂
I’m using Lucy from Attic 24’s lovely ripple pattern again. (You can see my first project with that pattern here.) This time I decided to switch up my yarn and I used a 50% cotton 50% acrylic yarn, Cotton-ease by Lion Brand. Below is the breakdown of yarn that I used:
- Stone – 3 skeins
- Snow – 1 skein
- Berry – 1 skein (this yarn color has been discontinued, sadface)
- Seaspray – 3 skeins
- Maize – 2 skeins
I initially ordered 3 skeins of all the colors so I have a fair amount left over to start a new project. I’m thinking maybe granny squares. 🙂
I have to say I really like this yarn. It was fairly inexpensive for a cotton/acrylic blend and it feels VERY sturdy and has great stitch definition. It does split fairly easily but does not fray. It’s also very warm once it’s worked up into a decent bit of fabric.
My initial chain was 142 stitches (10 repeats of the ripple and 2 chains for turning). The finished blanket is 68 rows and finished with a trim of white to even out the ripple edge, one round of half double crochet and one round of double crochet. I didn’t measure the finished size but if I had to guess I would say it was about 40″ x 40″. The blanket color pattern is as follows:
- 3 rows of stone
- 2 rows of maize
- 5 rows of seaspray
- 1 row of snow
- 2 rows of berry
- 3 rows of stone
- 2 rows of seaspray
- 5 rows of maize
- 1 row of snow
- 2 rows of berry
- Repeat this 1.5 times finishing on after the middle row of stone.
Now it’s time to get started on my next project! I’ve got another ripple in mind using some fantastic Cascade 220 yarn my mother in law bought me for Christmas last year and possibly a waffle blanket using a bit of KnitPicks Comfy Worsted yarn.
Thanks for stopping by!
17 responses to “Baby Ripple Blanket”
You’ve been busy!! Gorgeous blanket. Sure it is deeply appreciated by the recipient 🙂
Beautiful! A work of love obviously!
Lovely! Your workmanship (womanship!) is excellent. Thanks for all the deets on what and how many. A great project for the winter months as it keeps you warm as its produced…
I love this. I have never done a ripple and love the look. Your yarn choices are beautiful.
I’m sure the proud owner of this blanket is pleased as punch. You did a beautiful job!
Oh my goodness!! I still can’t believe that I am the lucky recipient! I’ve been snuggling Charlee in her new blanket and it’s so soft and warm. Thank you so much, Jen!
Wow- this is gorgeous! I’m totally in love with the colors you used and that pattern 🙂
Your rug is a knockout and I love the colours. I have tried this pattern before but I always end up with it uneven. I seem to get more stitches at each end as I go along. Could you possibly inform me where i am going wrong?
Sincerily Betty Kingston
Hi Betty,
I’m not sure what might be happening for you. I have learned with this stitch pattern that it’s important to make sure everything is lined up correctly as you build your rows. I always double check that my 2dctog line up with the ones from the previous row – same with the double crochet two in one stitch – these should always line up with the previous row. Be careful at the end that you add the two final double crochets in the turning chain of the previous row. All of this really seems to help me keep it all level on the edges (and I’m TERRIBLE with losing/adding stitches normally).
Good luck!
Jen
Hi. I love how your blanket turned out. I wanted to use the comfy worsted yarn from knitpicks. Do you have an idea of how many balls of yarn I’d need for a baby blanket like the one you made? I just need to know how many balls of yarn I’ll have to order. Thanks!
I am in the process of making this blanket, and it is turning out wonderfully. I laid it out tonight to see if it was looking square, and determined that I must be almost done. The pattern should be corrected to indicate repeating it 1.5 times instead of 2.5. This will make the 68 rows. It was a pleasant surprise, because I thought I had another entire repeat to go (2nd half of one, plus the .5) and all I have to do now are the final white, pink and grey rows and I can start on the fill-in and border. Thank you for the clear instructions and for choosing these beautiful colors. I would have never chosen to put these colors together on my own but they are beautiful.
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How did you do the border??
I love this! Please explain how you did the border, I like the way it looks much better than most I’ve seen on ripple stitch blankets.
It looks really great!! I would also love to know how did you do the edge, I’m having a problem with the rippled parts, not sure how to work those..
I used Lucy’s directions on how to straighten the edge and then did a round of double crochet grey, a round of half double white, and a round of double crochet in grey. (All in US crochet terms.)
Love your post on Pintrest. I have a question. When you state a number of skeins of yarn. How much per yardage? I know that there is several amounts you can purchase.