I'm rippling, rippling away.

Last year I spent over half a year making my mother-in-law's Christmas present: a flower and granny square blanket.  This one:

Because the pattern asked for real wool and it would cost me near enough £200 in just the yarn, I had substituted the wool for acrylic.  I made a rooky mistake by ordering the exact same amount, totally not taking into account that acrylic is much lighter than wool and so I ended up with a huge pile of left over yarn. 

This much!

I have decided to tackle it and have started on the Attic24 ripple blanket.  I'm making the stripes wider than hers and may even do irregular stripes considering I have more of some colours than others.  I am aiming for a single bed sized blanket to keep on the sofa to snuggle under in the evenings.  At the moment we have scruffy fleecy Ikea things that really don't look all that nice.  It will take me many weeks to finish, because I'm also trying to make a summer uniform dress for my middle daughter (more in another post some time), but keep your eyes peeled for my tadaaah post!

It's definitely growing!