Found it!

(picture borrowed from here)

When I was a kid, there were always several of these lying around the house for maximum TV watching comfiness. Each one had a color theme, and the stripes ranged from dark to light over four stripes of different shades of that color. There was a brown that went from dark chocolate to light tan, an orange one that went from a dark disgusting burnt color to a much lighter yellow, and a green one from forest to mint. They were all hand made of a terrible acrylic fiber, given to my mother as wedding presents (in the 70's when orange was considered a valid color for decorating and synthetic fibers were still looked at as a sign of human ingenuity). When I left for college, I lobbied tirelessly to get permission to take one of them. I even managed to kidnap the green one for a while. So when I decided that it was time to start searching for a pattern for an afghan for my brother (as either a wedding present or consolation prize), this is what I had in the back of my mind. Unfortunately, the pattern is crocheted. And I've sworn off crocheting forever (FOREVER!). You couldn't pay me to do it. Not even to comfort my poor widdle brudder when that nice girl leaves him because he can't get his act together and marry her. So I had put it out of my mind until last week when my new color card for my favorite yarn arrived in the mail (a color card is a piece of cardboard with samples of each color glued to it... very useful since colors on the internet are rarely terribly true). There were four lovely greens: Jade, Dublin, Lawn, and Bok choy. No icky 1970s avacado here. And in my favorite economically priced superwash merino, feels like merino, washes like cotton. It was like the fates had aligned, so I decided to have one last look for a KNITTED pattern that replicated the crocheted zig-zag. And what do you know!



I can't wait to get started. I'd do it right now except that I already have two afghans in progress with deadlines in the next 6 weeks.