Having realised, some time after the event, that my ‘Soft Granny Ripple’ (title given by someone other than myself) was actually not the symmetrical design I had been aiming for, which had been a granny version of this sort of ripple.
I created what I called my ‘Smooth Granny Ripple’.
However realising that the original Granny Ripple was a hybrid of this and a gentler ripple, I resolved to turn the other half of the ripple into a pattern.
Now on Ravelry as “Slow Granny Ripple” –
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/slow-granny-ripple
For this I decided to revisit my spectrum colours, adding Sherbet between Cloud Blue and Aspen to give a total of sixteen colours.I decided to use them interleaved with black.
I started with Emperor as before and was getting a little bored with the cold colours but it really brightened up when I added in the orange (Jaffa).
Here is the main body of the blanket finished.
I decided on a simple border, that wouldn’t upstage the body part, with an initial round of black treble (UK) groups followed by a row of dcs (UK). I then turned the blanket over and added grey trebles (UK).
I had run out of Stylecraft grey (Silver) yarn and I have been less happy with Stylecraft yarn of late finding it to have become rather rough and fluffy so I bought some basic acrylic yarn from Portswood Hardwarewhich seemed as good.
I finished off with another row of dcs (UK) in black. My plan for the blanket was to use it to embellish my Ikea Poang chair that I have in my study/guest bedroom.
And here with my cushion added, as you would normally see it.
The idea is that if I am in the study and feel a bit chilly it will make a good wrap.
Now I have my three Granny Ripple patterns I can see an new eBook coming on!
Here is a comparison of all three.
You go, girl!!! 🙂 I still have to try a ripple of my own, one fine day
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Very jolly and useful in a snuggly way.
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Yes, I didn’t need another huge blanket.
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What a lovely selection of granny ripple blankets.
I use that yarn from portswood hardware I think they have a great selection of colours.
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Yes it was the colour range I especially liked about Stylecraft. I don’t think the King Cole yarn was better than the Stylecraft, just no worse. (Don’t know about colour range.) I found King Cole had a really good range of baby yarn too as you will see.
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I like them all!
Looks good as a wrap too.
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Yes it is slightly longer than the sea-and-sand one so even better for wrapping.
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I love Granny-Stitch , your afghans are so darn gorgeous. Thank you very much for sharing, my next afghan project will have to be one of yours….WOW
LindY G Sherrod
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So glad you like it! Your comment made my day.
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