Ripple Blanket

I am in the middle of this embroidery now, but keep on doing the same thing is sometimes boring. At the same time, I have a pile of old wool on the living room floor, and I feel that my husband want to have a word on it soon, I was wondering what I should do about that pile.

Then I found the use of these yarns on ArtMind. The ripple blanket. And as she says, there is the tutorial on Attic24. 

Following Lucy's instruction, I started working on this blanket. The pattern is simple, so once you remember it, you can keep on crocheting on and on. I did it so intensively that now my nail on the index finger have a little crack and my thumb hurts :p. 

I wanted to make this blanket look like the one Caths Kidston might make, shabby chic-ish, but I had to use up my old yarns, I don't know it looks like it. if you look at this closer, you might find that some yarn's shades are different. Also I had to omit one purple line. It's just because when I had to add new yarn, the manufacturer changed the shade or discontinued some colour this year and I could not find the exactly the same colour. This might be a kind of fun to make something from the left over yarn, I mostly used for making Amigurumi, before. 

I really enjoyed making this blanket, was amazed that we can make the nice pattern with the very basic stitches. Now I reduced the volume of the pile of yarn. Unfortunately not used up :). Have started thinking what I should do about those...