I’m making this as a baby blanket! I’ve tried to crochet with this yarn, and it did absolutely nothing for it. It just looked like a muddled mess. I think it really needs to be knit, on a stockinette base, so I’m hoping that it will work well with this pattern stitch.

-Cast on 170 sts (18 reps + 4 sts on each side for a garter stitch edge)
-Did the chained cast on (crochet over the needle) with the 4.5 mm hook
-Begin w/ 4 rows garter stitch
-Alternate working 14 rows of lace (7 vertical eyelets) in Bloom with
-4 rows of garter stitch in white
-Keep the 4 stitches at each edge in garter stitch (instead of the 3-stitch i-cord)
-12 reps of Bloom
-End with 4 rows garter stitch in white
-Bind off with k2tog tbl
-Used Signature 32” needles
-The crochet hook was only for the cast on

I would have made it longer, but didn’t want to break into a second skein of the Bloom.

I think it came out pretty sweet. The only thing I don’t like about it is that the cast on edge has the ripple points, but the bind off edge does not. I tried to block it and pin out the points, but the acrylic yarn just won’t hold onto them.

I guess I could rip back and try to do some ripple shaping in that last edge section with the white, like decreasing in the valleys & increasing at the points, and keeping the rest in garter. That might help, & I suppose I still might do that, but so far, I’m kinda calling it done.

This was a very enjoyable pattern to work. I really liked making it. The lace pattern was very easily memorized, so once you had that down, you didn’t need to look at the pattern at all anymore, or even keep track of rows. All you needed to do was count the eyelets. Very relaxing.

4/8/24:
Donated to A Safe Place at the COTL Guild Meeting.