Retirement Ripple

I've started another ripple for a friend who's retiring, well technically her retirement has not been made official yet, but I can't wait til the last minute. I rarely make things for people I know. Not that I don't like them but it becomes challenging to explain why I made something for person A but not for person B. So I typically limit gifts for people I know to babies and weddings. Most of what I craft is donated to charity.

This afghan for Doris' retirement will be an exception. When I met her she was already married with children. And I've known her for almost 20 years. So I figure she's worth it. I asked her if she might be retiring and I might decide to make her an afghan, what color might she want it to be. She said green and cream.

I chose Caron Simply Soft because I believe she will be heading to a warmer climate and I wanted to make it easy care. She might want to use it outside on the porch or as a picnic blanket. Handwash would be a pain and she might not use it as much.

It's the Shades of Coral Ripple from the 200 ripple stitch patterns book by Jan Eaton. I'm using an 8 row pattern repeat of 2 rows Dark Sage, 1 row Sage, 2 rows Off White, 1 row Sage, and 2 rows Dark Sage. So far only 1 repeat is done.