Ripple ta-dah!

Do you remember the miserable cold dark days of February, when it felt like winter was going to last forever and I started a mammoth ripple blanket to keep us warm on winter nights...?  
Well, it's been a while since those days and the weather couldn't have been more different lately! 
I rippled away during the last days of winter and merrily into spring and then when the sunny days arrived, I put my blanket to one side for fear of overheating under the weight of the thing!  
Well, it's been a little bit cooler of an evening lately, enough for me to pick up my blanket once more, finish off the last few stripes and weave in all those ends and now it is finally finished!  

It's a bit colourful to say the least but my main intention was to use up lots of odds and ends.  I usually stick to a much smaller, more neutral colour palette so actually it's been lovely to go with the flow and use colours I wouldn't usually choose together!

Hopefully it will be a while before we will need it to keep us warm at nights but it's tucked away by the side of the bed ready to pull on when it does get chilly! 

Addicted to those ripples...

I think if I was told I could only ever ripple, in terms of crochet, ever again, I don't think I'd mind too much!  I can't get enough of the rhythmic flow of all those ups and downs and am loving the results... especially considering my only intention was use up my yarn stash!  

Do any of your fellow Crocheters have any lovely projects on the go? 
Jo x

One foot in February

So, here we are firmly in February, having waved goodbye to January and I for one, was sad to see it go.  Life rushes by all too quickly and January seems to have been no exception.  All I seem to hear lately are people bemoaning what they call a long, bleak month.  Yes, it's cold.  Yes, it's dark, Yes, it's a little bit of a come down after the joy of Christmas but the days are drawing out now and the promise of Spring is most definitely in the air.  The first daffodils are peeping up from the ground and for me, January always bring with it the excitement of things to come in this brand spanking new year.  

I have been a very busy little papercutter in the last few weeks with some sweet commissions and some new things for the shop including pretty papercut bunting.

 

 

I'm not sure if I've mentioned my love of crochet here before but I've recently learnt to ripple (using the wonderful pattern from Attic24) I locked myself in a quiet room for all the necessary counting at the beginning and that dastardly long foundation chain (255!) but once I was on the second row, I relaxed into it and am now totally hooked!  It's going to be double bed sized as I'd like it to act as a bedspread on colder nights.  I'm just using up a lot of odds and ends of Stylecraft DK yarn and trying to be as random as my OCD orderly brain will let me!  

Here it is so far.... 

 

 

A bit of a way to go.... 

Enjoy your Sunday poppets! 

Jo x