I finished up the little square (5.5″) that I determined I would finish before I would cast on for the ripple blanket. It’s just a basic basketweave knit pattern with US5 needles started last night and finished up this morning. I’ll be glad to get this mailed off tomorrow and it has certainly made me want to participate in more “send a square” kindof thing. A quick gratification, especially going to a good cause.

That done, early this evening I played around with figuring out how many stitches to chain for It begins...the afghan. My stitch repeat is 12 stitches, so I ended up with a 252 stitch chain +3 for the first dc. I used stitch markers every 50 chains to try to end up with an accurate amount and it worked out well, no problems! I finished the second row after I took this picture. While I like the random stripes best, I have a random stripe afghan from my friend, and I don’t have enough colors to really make a good random stripe–so I’m going for a more set color sequence (you can see it at the top of the previous post–although I have added two more) of 12 colors.