Prop Project: The Black-Bordered, Multicolored Afghan.

[Lydia]

It's spread out over Bruno's piano in episode 986.

[Lydia]

A very exciting sighting: the primary and the secondary afghans in the very same room together in episode 997!  Buffie Harrington's room, parallel time.  I should have looked for the silver filigree pen, for a Dark Shadows Trifecta, but in my excitement I forgot to do so.

[MagnusTrask]

Truly an embarrassment of afghans.   I believe that's the collective term.

[Lydia]

I can think of other possibilities.

...an itch of afghans
...a square dance of afghans
...a ubiquity of afghans

[MagnusTrask]

...a ubiquity of afghans

LOL!

[michael c]

A very exciting sighting: the primary and the secondary afghans in the very same room together in episode 997!  Buffie Harrington's room, parallel time.  I should have looked for the silver filigree pen, for a Dark Shadows Trifecta, but in my excitement I forgot to do so.

has the AFGHAN and the PEN ever appeared together in ROOM TWENTY FOUR? 

[MagnusTrask]

I just pictured the afghan and the Pen in a sordid tryst in a hotel room.   Yet I can feed myself.

[Julia99]

Apparently the afghan has left Collinsport altogether and now lives in L.A. on actresses bodies as dresses and other haute couture pieces

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/09/mary-kate-olsen-cate-blan_n_606010.html

[Midnite]

I'd go for a purse made out of the smaller squares, but haven't seen one.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

now lives in L.A. on actresses bodies as dresses and other haute couture pieces

OMG - that's amazing (or insane, depnding on how one wants to look at it.  ) Who knew?


And I don't believe THE PEN and either afghan have ever shared a scene. More's the pity. 

[Lydia]

The afghan was draped over a sofa or chair or something in the Old House living room in episode 1032.

[katrinavantassel]

I hate to be a Dark Shadows geek, but I would love to make an afghan just like the multi-talented multi-colored afghan. Unfortunately, my fingers tingle after holding something after awhile so I think it would take me a long time to finish. Case in point - minus the tingly fingers - I started an afghan for my son when he was born and I finished it 15 years later.

[Lydia]

Yeah, making a Dark Shadows afghan would be very satisfying, not to mention easier than making a wolf's head cane.

Incidentally, I saw a headline the other day that read something like "Senate Debates Afghan Deadline" and my first thought was, "They're making afghans in the Senate?"

In episode 1033, we saw more of the afghan draped over the sofa in the Old House as it was in 1032.  It sat there unused in both episodes, and I'll bet it was just itching to wrap itself lovingly around Barnabas.

[Lydia]

The primary afghan continued to be folded over the sofa in the Loomis House living room for the rest of parallel time.  Here are the episodes in which I noticed it:

1034 
1036
1042
1043
1045
1046
1046
1047
1048
1049
1059
1060

[MagnusTrask]

I'm surprised that it wasn't violently and horribly killed.   Good thing Barnabas has a firm no-help-afghans policy.