Archive for December, 2012

Experimenting with Ripples

Saturday, December 29th, 2012

by Nancy

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m not entirely satisfied with the start of my Granny Stripes blanket.  So, I started looking around for some other possibilities.  First, I tried this Ripple Pattern:

Very nice!  Next, I tried Granny Stripes:

Also very nice!

I really liked the combination of granny squares and ripples in the Granny Stripes blanket, and about this time I found this on Pinterest (which, by the way, can be highly addictive):

I absolutely love this!!! Aren’t the colors amazing? I tried finding the source but couldn’t come up with anything. So, I used it for inspiration and came up with this:

This just might be what I’m looking for…