plate spinning mama: Ripple cupcakes

Its not often that I'm drawn to pastel colourways..... but I saw this cupcake coloured blanket and this blanket edging in the same week.. and a little acorn of an idea started to germinate in my head...just as an invite arrived to a party for a friend who was shortly about to reach a special age...

Better start by getting the wool... Woop! lets hear it for internet shopping!

A really ordinary looking plastic bag contains...

15 balls of divine squishy-ness

They look even better out of the bag...

Now not being one to do things EXACTLY like the original pattern I decided to follow the colours but not the design....to me this cupcake design was just screaming to be made into a ripple blanket. So a simple row of chains started to ripple up and down. There are terrific instructions here and I followed Lucy's advice to the letter...

It looks even better when the second colour gets added....

in no time at all.....well a couple of 6 nations rugby matches actually the first 7 rows were done...

...and then the first 15, thats one row of each colour right there...

I do seriously think this may be the nicest, quickest pattern in the crochet world to hook together, a third done in a matter of weeks...

That's what happens when your project is super portable and you can spend an afternoon on the garden swing seat....

Soon it was full size and crying out for that edging...

It is all in Dutch - but thanks to good photography on the part of whoever was videoing the crocheter its quite easy to follow...
A row of purple foundation trebles.... then the cake is Tr2,Tr,Tr2 skip 1, the pink icing edging is single crochet into the the back loop only, and the white icing is Tr5 tog...

Now try as I might I couldn't get the beads for the cherry on top onto the yarn to crochet in as I went along - so they had to be sewn on afterwards....