Thursday, December 13, 2007

A ripple and a half

I have finished my first ripple baby blanket BUT I am not so happy with the colours. It’s a little dull and manly, don’t you think? The pattern is from the free ripple pattern on Project Linus except I casted on less repeats.



I casted on another one using the Soft Waves pattern from 200 Ripple patterns book this time using the boat load of Peaches and Crème I got from this seller on eBay.




If you want to make this type of “Stash” blanket and don’t have spare stash or just want to have different colours of the same yarn, he’s a good one to go. He has a 1 lb assortment which you can request to have part variegated part solid.

I haven’t just been crocheting ripples –there’s a little top down cardigan I hope to get done by Christmas. I am not ready to let you have a peek yet.

AND I have been surfing the Drops free pattern site. Finally got my Adobe upgraded which allows me to make pdf files and I have just been going crazy…

I made a few stash sales which gave me a wee bit of money to spend on new stash for Christmas and I have been debating and debating on what to buy. I finally placed an order for a couple of Zimmerman books and Drops Bomull-Lin – a cotton linen blend from Scandanavian knitting http://www.scandinavianknittingdesign.eu/ for a very reasonable price. I have never tried linen before and of course there’s a whole host of yummy linen summery knits on Drops that are just irresistible.





What knitty/crafty stash are you buying yourself for xmas?

6 comments:

opportunityknits said...

The baby ripple turned out great! And the new one is looking pretty too.

Mimi said...

I am into crochet these days too. So addicting! ;) Nice colors in your projects!

Anonymous said...

crochet is as addicted as lace knitting. Pretty finished ripple. I am bad indeed, what did I get for my xmas stash? If not mistakens I get 2 cones Color Marts, few skeins (4 or 5) of Knitpikcs, 10 balls of Checkleathon Silk,...get it from online knitters' stash ..:-)

R a i n said...

Happy New Year! Hope you had a good one.

KA said...

hola!! get me one of those sweaters!! :P

Cherrie said...

omg... i didn't know you knit too... i like those things you knit ler.. nice ler...