{"id":16313,"date":"2016-03-09T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=16313"},"modified":"2021-10-07T08:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:50:44","slug":"ribbed-rippleturtle-beach-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/ribbed-rippleturtle-beach-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbed Ripple\/Turtle Beach pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I published my <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=16&#038;products_id=255\">Baby Sea Turtle pattern<\/a> two years ago, several people have attached the turtles to afghan squares or blankets showing the babies hatching on a beach and making their way to the sea. It&#8217;s such a sweet idea, as the turtles are quite flat, so they work well as an appliqu&eacute;d element on a blanket or square.<\/p>\n<p>About a week ago, one of these blankets went viral on Facebook and I&#8217;ve consequently had dozens of requests for a beach blanket to attach my baby sea turtles to, so I thought I&#8217;d modify my <a href=\"\/blog\/eyelet-ripple-crochet-pattern\/\">eyelet ripple crochet pattern<\/a> into a ribbed ripple, to depict wavelets moving towards a beach. And here it is: Turtle Beach!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/free-crochet-patterns\/turtle-beach\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/turtlebeach.jpg\" alt=\"turtle beach crochet pattern by planetjune\" \ndata-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/planetjune_turtlebeach_crochet.jpg\"\ndata-pin-description=\"A crocheted blanket that tells a story! Baby sea turtles hatch on the beach and make their way to the sea...\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The Baby Sea Turtle pattern is sold separately, <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=16&#038;products_id=255\">here<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can stitch <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=16&#038;products_id=255\">Baby Sea Turtles<\/a> to it, or just use it as a play mat or display background for turtles and other small aquatic amigurumi (like my <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=16&#038;products_id=234\">Baby Cephalopods<\/a>, perhaps!)<\/p>\n<p>This is a Donationware pattern &#8211; my ribbed ripple stitch pattern, the basic pattern for a 10&#8243; Turtle Beach square, and general instructions for making a Turtle Beach blanket are free for you to view on my website (links at the end of this post), but the PDF version includes lots of bonuses:<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&#038;cPath=26&#038;products_id=298\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/pattern_turtlebeach.jpg\" alt=\"ribbed ripple turtle beach crochet pattern\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Full patterns to make 3ft x 4ft Turtle Beach blankets with either 4 or 5 shades of yarn (yellow, white, and 2 or 3 blues)<\/li>\n<li><del>The modifications required to turn my Hatching Turtle (from the Baby Sea Turtle Collection pattern) into a Swimming Turtle that looks like the back half of its shell is submerged.<\/del> <em>(Now included in the Baby Sea Turtle Collection pattern instead.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Optional edging instructions to square off the rippled top and bottom edges, so you can use this as a beach-themed square in a larger blanket, or turn it into the front of a cushion cover, for example &#8211; and there are lots more applications.<\/li>\n<li>Any-size modification instructions, so you can make any size afghan square, a baby blanket, or even a huge blanket to fit a king-sized bed!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both versions include the written stitch pattern, a charted stitch diagram, and suggestions for how to make the beach and sea colouring (and how to arrange the turtles). <\/p>\n<p>You can also use the Ribbed Ripple stitch pattern with any other colourway if you don&#8217;t want a beachy blanket &#8211; a 2-row repeat in 2 or 3 colours would look amazing too. Here&#8217;s a small sample showing an alternate colourway and the bonus edging you&#8217;ll get in the PDF version:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/ribbedripple_edging.jpg\" alt=\"rippled ripple crochet pattern with edging, by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy this pattern and that you&#8217;ll share what you&#8217;ve made with me, on Ravelry and\/or on your favourite social media (tag me @PlanetJune to make sure I see it!)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also running a <strong>Turtlemania CAL<\/strong> in the <a href=\"\/ravelry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlanetJune group on Ravelry<\/a> from now until the end of April, and we&#8217;d love it if you&#8217;d join in if you&#8217;re making PlanetJune turtles, a Turtle Beach blanket, and\/or a Wavy Stripes blanket from the Ribbed Ripple pattern! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/free-crochet-patterns\/ribbed-ripple-crochet-pattern\/\">Go to the free Ribbed Ripple stitch pattern >><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/free-crochet-patterns\/turtle-beach\/\">Go to the free Turtle Beach pattern\/instructions >><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&#038;cPath=26&#038;products_id=298\">Go straight to buy the PDF version! >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I published my Baby Sea Turtle pattern two years ago, several people have attached the turtles to afghan squares or blankets showing the babies hatching on a beach and making their way to the sea. It&#8217;s such a sweet idea, as the turtles are quite flat, so they work well as an appliqu&eacute;d element [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-patterns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}