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Plan B August 26, 2008

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects — karrie @ 6:17 pm

I have been unhappy with my ripple afghan for a while now.



I haven’t ripped it out since I didn’t know quite what I would do instead.

Now I have an idea… Inspired by the multitudes of fantastic hexagon blankets on Ravelry () and in the Hexagon love flickr pool, I want to make one too.

I’ve got the book, so I gave it a try…



I think I am going to rip out the ripples and proceed with the hexagons. I am not going to aim as high as a queen sized blanket - more of a throw. And if I change my mind, I can easily add more hexes to the end and/or sides.

But, what do you think?

What shoud I do first? (choose as many as you’d like)

  • Make hard tack candy (cinnamon and clove) (50%, 12 Votes)
  • Spin up some fiber (33%, 8 Votes)
  • Major top-secret gocco project (21%, 5 Votes)
  • Take a trip to the East Bay Depot (17%, 4 Votes)
  • Cross stitch a tiny japanese santa (8%, 2 Votes)
  • Start a vintage Crewel project (4%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 24

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Your days are numbered, ripple afghan March 9, 2008

Filed under: Karrie's Current Projects — karrie @ 5:32 am

Lately, I have had visions of ripping this out.

It is sized to become a queens sized afghan, so it is several feet wide. There is a lot of crochet going on there. I an unhappy with how strictly I striped the colors. Each color row is actually two rows and I feel like I have to keep doing that over and over. Oh, and I hate the pattern. Working one direction is fun, but working back the other direction is boring (sc) and doesn’t make much progress. Oh, and I kinda think I am doing it wrong.

I originally chose this particular ripple pattern (from 200 Ripple Stitch Patterns[Ravlink]) because i liked the rounded ripples, and i had this crazy idea that afghans HAD to have little holes in them. So you could stick your fingers through them, or peek out when you are all wrapped up in it. Then I realized this is not a lap afghan, it s a bedspread. And I realize that crocheting something the size of my bed is crazy (jobs like that are for sewing) and maybe I should downsize to a practical sized afghan.

Since I have tons of the yarn (Cascade 220 superwash wool from webs) I think I am going to start a simultaneous afghan in a pattern akin to the ever-popular soft waves ripple pattern [Ravlink], it will be still for my bed, but I might decide to downsize it so that it may someday be complete.

The original rippled afghan will survive another day.

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The secret is out June 27, 2007

Filed under: Finished Projects, Karrie's Current Projects — karrie @ 1:23 pm

Finally after months of secrecy, I can reveal my knitting group’s secret project:

A Blanket for Debbie! Debbie has been in our knitting group for years, and when she announced that she was getting married, we wanted to make something for her. The idea of a blanket was tossed around and I vehemently opposed. I really hated seaming together the baby blanket that we knit as a gift a long time ago. Then Abby stepped up and took charge. After a few weeks of pumping Debbie for color and yarn information, we were knitting blue squares.

The blanket is made of Plymouth Encore (superwash wool acrylic blend) and is the combined knitting efforts of Abby, Carmen, Ingrid, Sarah, Sarah B, Wenonah, B, Gen, Mary and myself. The square pattern is from Fun Knits. We added a double crochet border, and Abby hand embroidered a tag. (Peek here if you want to see us piecing it together.)

I think she likes it!

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