Northern lights

[Tinezz]

Hi All,

 

I'm a bridesmaid for my friends wedding and they are getting married in Iceland.

 

I wanted to make her a special afghan to thank her for asking me to be part of her and her husbands to be special day.

 

I know she is planning a trip to the blue lagoon for the wedding guests and we are going in February so the Northern lights will be in full swing.

 

I am relatively new to crochet and was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I can do a northern lights/blue lagoon blanket. What stitch would work best to reflect the idea as a whole. I can work with blanket in full or working on granny squares so any ideas, I would really appreciate it.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Tinezz x

[redrosesdz]

Welcome to Crochetville!

 

This isn't what you asked for, but I'm partial to wedding ring afghans/quilts as wedding gifts.  There's one on ravelry done with a white a background with the rings in a variety of blue shades.  The blues remind me of a blue lagoon.

 

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/wedding-rings-blanket

 

Here's one called "northern lights" ...

 

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/northern-lights-afghan

[Granny Square]

A ripple-type pattern popped into my head too, when you mentioned Northern Lights. Either stripes, or maybe a variegated blue, green, purple.  I just looked at redheart.com, there is a Super Saver colorway called 'Icelandic' (but reminds me more of a glacier than the northern lights).  They also have 'lagoon', but it looks sort of tropical.  'Wildflower' might be a possibility...

http://www.redheart.com/yarn/super-saver?variantPage=11

 

Unfortunately that Herrschner's pattern link is broken, try this one (it's in a book to purchase)

https://www.herrschners.com/product/herrschners%26%23174-+best+of+herrschners+2-ply+afghans%2C+vol.+6+crochet+book.do?from=Search&cx=0

 

The Herrschner's photo reminded me of a blanket I made a couple of years ago, a crochet version of the knit 'feather and fan' ripple - it's an easy repeat, just pay attention to the stitch counts (as for all ripples).  It was this pattern:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ripple-romance-afghan

 

Other free ripple patterns

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/search#availability=free&view=captioned_thumbs&pc=blanket&query=ripple&sort=best&craft=crochet

[ReniC]

At one time I thought I would make this afghan in colors I had seen of a photo of the Northern Lights, but, as of yet, have not made it. The colors were very striking in shades of purples, blues, greens and dark pinks.

[magiccrochetfan]

My first thought is also a ripple, or something with a wavy pattern like Reni linked to .

Other wave ideas---Chameleon http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/chameleon-baby-blanket

Streamwave http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/streamwave-throw

Magic Flow is a rectangular stole, would not be difficult to expand it to a blanket http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/magic-flow-stole

[Granny Square]

Reni and Magic, thanks for those links - have added to my favorites list!

[magiccrochetfan]

   GrannySquare, i just wish my FO list would grow as fast as my favorites list!