Triple Ripple Baby Afghan

I just discovered another of my baby afghan designs, the Triple Ripple Baby Afghan, on-line at e-patternscentral.com. And, it's on sale! It's an afghan I designed for a book of patterns using foundation stitches. That means no separate foundation chain. You crochet the foundation chain AND the first row of stitches at the same time. It's a lot easier than crocheting a HUGE number of chains, and then working your first row, only to find out at the end of that row that you have either too many, or too few chains. And you have to frog the entire thing and start all over again. With foundation stitches, you make the exact number that you need. It's a wonderful crochet skill to know.

Here's the picture of the baby afghan.

Chain-Free Crochet Made Easy

A great new book was just published by House of White Birches - Chain-Free Crochet Made Easy. If you want to know how to work all different kinds of foundation stitches, this is the book for you! Yes - some of my patterns are in the book - but this is the kind of book that I would acquire for my book collection. Even if my designs weren't in there. :-) The different techniques for making foundation stitches (you make the foundation chain and the first row of stitches at the same time) make the book a valuable learning tool. With the techniques you will learn from this book you can work just about any pattern using foundation stitches. Check the book out here:



Now - as great as the book is, I did find one slight error in one of my patterns - the Rectangular Granny Afghan, on page 66. The directions tell you to make a dc eyelet, but they don't tell you how. So, here is the way to make a dc eyelet:
*Ch 3, dc in 3rd ch from hook. Repeat from * as many times as stated.

Also, the directions don't tell you how many to make. Make 3 dc eyelets.

If you do buy the book, and make any of my patterns, please send me a picture. I love to see what other crocheters do with my patterns.

And check out the close-up pictures of my place mat on pages 148 and 149. These are awesome!