handknitters guild afghan

the plan for the handknitters guild is to knit an afghan to raise money for their operation (remember the fiasco with the waratah this year? well, the guild are super organised, and asking knitters to start making squares now for next year...). this time 'round the afghan is going to be more of a swanky afghan - done in tones of cream, cafe au lait, mocha, caramel, and any other posh word you can think of for light tones of brown, donna hay style. (we already have plans of entering the raffle, and if we win, a very large vat of suitably hued dye will be at the ready...)
initially we were in love with the concept of a hardcore cable design from one of the barbara walker "treasury of knitting patterns" books - once upon a time, we had an idea of making throws based on people - marilyn monroe's would be a cream, white, and novelty yarns number which would look fabulous over a chair such as the one on the cover of 1000 chairs. nigella lawsons would be chocolate brown, made from jo sharp's silkroad ultra (in truffle, right?) and then there was trent reznor's. it's got to be black. and bloody expensive (noro cash iroha?) and have a ton of detail, and nine inch tails (leather tassles?). so trent's throw was going to be based on this weird sort of 37 stitch cable, the likes of which we'd never seen before.
given the cable won't fit into the sizing of the square needed for the throw (all the squares need to be knit in 8 ply), we've found the chump change cable (thursday entry) which should do the trick for the afghan. as for trent, marilyn and nigella....another day.