The Many Faces of "Candy Cane"!

The Many Faces of "Candy Cane"!

I decided to stop at the simple border/edging on my latest Christmas crocheted throw "Candy Cane". 

 So, "Candy Cane" is all finished.  

This throw was very easy to crochet using Jan Eaton's ripple stitch pattern called "Storm Clouds".  

Previously blogged about (here).  

The border/edging is two rounds of double crochet using two strands of yarn together in red and white.     

First time I have ever used two strands at once.  

I was pleased to discover by using Caron's Simply Soft yarn, it wasn't hard to do at all.  

Although I just finished the first round of white single crochet in this photo I did add another round of single crochet in white.

Here's a close of of the other end in red. 

 This is an earlier photo taken before I finished the final round of white single crochet. 

I love the wide white band on what I call the "white end". 

 It's six rows of the "storm cloud" ripple stitch in white three times with one row of red between.

This is the reverse end showing the wide red band.

And all laid out to see the pattern.   The final size is 40 inches by 60 inches. 

I started out on the white end and then reverse the color pattern for the red end.

Somehow I added an extra little bump (ripple) at the red end that isn't at the white end.  

I didn't even notice it until it was all finished.  LOL! 

That's what makes it unique. 

Color Pattern 

(ripple double crochet stitch used throughout is Jan Eaton's "Storm Clouds")

(Starting with what I call the "White End")

Three rows of white;

One row of red;

One row of white;

One row of red;

Three rows of white.

Three rows of red;

Two rows of white;

Three rows of red.

Six rows of white;

One row of red;

Six rows of white;

One row of red;

Six rows of white.

Now I reverse the color pattern for the "Red End".

Three rows of red;

One row of white;

One row of red;

One row of white;

Three rows of red.

Three rows of white;

Two rows of red;

Three rows of white.

Six rows of red;

One row of white;

Six rows of red;

One row of white;

Six rows of red.

And for the last two bands at the red end I repeated the first two white end bands.

Three rows of white;

One row of red;

One row of white;

One row of red;

Three rows of white.

Three rows of red;

Two rows of white;

Three rows of red.

I think this photo shows how the pattern is reversed from the white end to red end.

Do you think

"Candy Cane"

will be pretty displayed at Christmas time?

Please join Mary at The Little Red House (here) for more Mosaic Monday

And there are more REDs to enjoy with our host, Sue, at 

It's A Very Cherry World

(here) 

for REDnesday!

Red Hot, Hot and Hotter Here!

Border and Edging at white end.

Ripple Granny Type Stitch is called "Storm Clouds".

Red Hot Here...

at least our A/C is working...so I can continue crocheting the border and edging of my Christmas throw...

 ~ Candy Cane ~

First blogged about (here).

Border and Edging at the other red end.

I worked two strands together of Red and White to get the variegated look (two rounds of double crochet).  Now I'm putting two rounds of single crochet in white around the outer edge.  I'll almost out of white yarn though.  

Candy Cane

Working on the border and edging now.

I haven't made up my mind if I will stop at the second round of single crochet in the white or if I will keep going to make the border/edging bigger.  I'll have to get more white and red yarn to continue.

When I am finished with Candy Cane I will post another photo of the throw so you can see the pattern I worked up in red and white.

Too darn hot!

It's just horribly hot here and will be even worst tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday at 102 and 101 degrees F.  

We had to go out in our garage tonight and transfer our meats still frozen in our freezer there to our kitchen refrigerator/freezer.  The heat was too much in the garage and the freezer was starting to lose it's ability to keep the food frozen.  We saved some stuff but had to throw out some too.  That's the first time that has happened to us in eleven years with having a separate freezer in the garage.  

I hope your evening is going better than ours and that you are escaping this horrible heat.

Keep Cool!

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How Do You Like My Candy Cane?

I'm in love with RED and WHITE!

OK...it's not a real Candy Cane that you can eat!

For over a year I have been anxious ~ OK obsessing ~ to try a red and white ripple throw. 

I thought I would keep using Lucy at Attic24's "Easy Ripple" pattern but then I bought a new book on ripple stitches...Jan Easton's "Ripple Stitch Patterns".   

I love this book.  

All the patterns on the left page sides of the book are for knitting and the ones on the right page sides are for crocheting.  I don't knit, at this time, but I wouldn't minded trying some of the knit patterns some day.  The only thing the book doesn't have are stitch diagrams which I like to have in addition to the stitch pattern description written out.   I like the photo sample of each stitch and there is even an alternate look for each stitch.    

This stitch pattern is called "Storm Clouds" and I agree with Jan that it seems as if it is inspired by the groups of double crochet stitches that make up a traditional granny square.  

This ripple stitch is called "Storm Clouds".

I'm having fun working out the color pattern as I stitch.  

Probably most crocheters plan out their color arrangement in advance but I don't.  

I just wing it as I go along.  

That's the fun of it...seeing it come to life.  

It's amazing to see the strikingly different color patterns one can achieve by alternating the red and white yarn.

My color pattern of red and white...so far.

This pattern stitch, Storm Clouds, is very easy to do.   

I had it memorized immediately. 

The only problem I had was at the edges of the rows.  I noticed after crocheting the first two bands of red and white that my edges weren't straight.  But I kept on crocheting thinking praying they would work out in the end.  

Finally I realized, no, duh, they wouldn't work out and I wouldn't be happy with uneven edges...particularly after all that work.  

So I cut one end and tried to fix it.  

That didn't work so I had to frog two rows back where I cut the yarn.  

After staring at the edges for a while I figured out how to frog them back to where they all lined up and were straight.  It took a little work but it was worth it in the end.

If I had paid attention to my edges at the beginning I probably wouldn't have had this problem at all.

I highly recommend Jan Eaton's book!

It's a Work In Progress!

I love the "Granny Square" look to this stitch pattern.   

I'm already thinking about the next Christmas ripple throw in red, white and lime green.  There's another stitch pattern in Jan's book called "Granny Chevons" that I'm drooling over.  Actually there are so many of her patterns I'm crazy about it's hard to choose just one.  

Do you like my "Candy Cane"?

This is a good post for this week's REDnesday.

And there are more REDs to enjoy with our host, Sue, at 

It's A Very Cherry World

(here) 

for REDnesday!

Many thanks to all my readers for taking the time to visit me...I'm still amazed that anyone wants to read my little blog.  

Have a Happy Monday!