One of the gifts I'd made for Christmas this past year was an afghan. It came out of a Paton's textured afghan book; one of the rare times I've actually used a commercial pattern! :-)
It had sort of a broken or staggered rib pattern to it, but here's the basic idea:
9 mm needles (use a circular one to take advantage of the extra length, but you are still knitting "flat" i.e. back and forth)
Worsted weight yarn of your choice -- and you can use two different colours, if you want, because you are holding (and working) two strands together for the entire pattern. You could use one solid and one variegated for a nice effect.
The pattern called for 17 x 100g (228 yards) balls worsted weight yarn, with a total yardage of 3,875 yards.
Possibilities are endless!
(Remember, use two strands held together throughout.) Cast on 136 stitches. This makes an afghan about 54 inches wide. Now the fun part:
You can do a complete garter stitch afghan, knitting each row back and forth. Or use any texture stitch of your choice: basket weave, ribs, etc. Or even take a dishcloth pattern, figure out the number of repeats and adjust your cast-on stitches to that number. Using the big needles, and the doubled strands of yarn, this worked up really quickly -- and it makes a nice warm, soft, snuggly afghan. Have fun!
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