PS 2.0 Kickoff!

For a very long time, I've been pondering knitting or crocheting a blanket from my stash of blue yarns...when I saw Jane's, I knew it had to be crocheted and ripply. I have a lot of blue, in part because of the throw I made my Mom: I bought quite a bit of blue yarn for that throw, and used only 1/2-3/4s of each ball. Also, anytime anyone buys me yarn, or when I'm seduced by a single skein (which is pretty rare), I get it in my favorite color: blue! I also have a substantial amount of grays and whites, bought for dyeing project that I never undertook. When we moved, I reorganized my yarn stash and put all the blue, white and gray I would use in this project together in one box...it's been waiting for me ever since!
My original plan was to ball up all of my blue yarn and just crochet at random. It just so happens that today kicks off Project Spectrum v.2 and the first three colors? Blue, Gray and White: exactly the colors I wanted for a blanket that will live in my living room!
And then I saw Alicia's blizzard blanket, and my mind really started whizzing. Should I put a lot more thought into my ripple crocheted blanket? Should I play with the Random Stripe Generator? Of course!


However, ripples change the way colors interact with each other, and I wanted to see what the stripes would do if jumbled into each other a bit. So I opened my stripe picture in Photoshop and then applied the Ripple Filter (which took me forever to find!)


This nearly looks like a crocheted blanket, doesn't it?
Pondering the other rooms this blanket might find itself in...I've considered throwing in some green , yellow and pink (our bedroom colors, and the next biggest stash colors)
I'm heading home to pull out the yarn and crochet hook right now!
(PS. How does one decide what crochet to use...would I use the equivelant to the appropriate needle size?)