Category Archives: Ombre Ripples

#32 – A Cool Ripple

Greys: RHSS ‘Light Grey’, Love Knit ‘Grey’, and an unknown charcoal Turquoises:  RHSS ‘Aruba Sea’, a gift from Lisa of TN, RHSS ‘Pale Green’, and Sayelle ‘Lt. Turquoise’ from KMart Plus scraps of black and white Cool Colors All. . .  … Continue reading

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#30 – An Ombre Ripple

This is the first project I’ve made using Bernat Satin, a lovely yarn with a very smooth finish and soft sheen. Nice! Melissa of GA gave me several skeins last winter. – Thanks again, Melissa! I really enjoyed getting acquainted … Continue reading

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#28 – An Ombre Ripple

I started with a couple of the yarns from my big sister, 10 oz. of Sayelle ‘Chestnut Sunset’, the variegated and 8 oz. of ‘Chestnut’, a matching solid, then added 4 oz. of Jack Frost ‘Rust’, 3 of RHSS ‘Buff’, … Continue reading

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#26 Another All Blue

Today’s blanket is my third all-blue ripple of the year, designed purposely to reduce the overwhelming amount of blue yarn that I have in my charity stash. As a reminder, here is the first, #7, which I so cleverly labeled … Continue reading

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#5 An Ombre* Ripple

I chose a rather odd mixture of subdued colors for this week’s ripple. They range from a pale peach and pink through a few light shades of rose and salmon, then there’s just a little light rust before you get … Continue reading

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2012 Ripple of the Week #31 – The Midas Touch

I made Midas with five yellow and gold yarns including Red Heart Super Saver Gold, a yellow chenille from a thrift store sweater and a very subtle variegated. The pale yellow is actually two strands of baby yarn that I … Continue reading

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Another Scrappy Ripple of the Week – #16 – Waves

Yet another trip to the yarn scrap box made me realize my next ripple had to be a blue one cuz I had way over two pounds of blue scraps in there! Since a child-sized ripple (35″ x 54″) uses … Continue reading

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