Dgs went through several bins with me. We were looking for browns, reds, greens, & blues for his dbros' diagonal afghans for Christmas. We filled a 27-gallon bin to nearly over-flowing of yarns, but need to purchase 2 brown skeins. The MC on 1 dgs will be red & the other MC dgs will get blue. The URL for the pattern (IF it's still there!) & you may need to search at the Internet's Wayback Machine, this is the URL on the pattern I've got. I went to the link below, it doesn't show the pattern, but I've seen it on-line at other crochet websites. If you want to look at it, a "Google" search should do it nicely or go to the most popular long crochet pattern listings sites.
http://hometown.aol.com/debgirlpower/Debgirlpowerafghancrochet.htmlDgs worked so hard, with me beside him working hard, too, lifting, untangling, transferring yarns, then moving the large bin to our walk-in closet. Everything's in one place now.
The pattern is a like a Granny stitch, only done straight, starting with a Chain 4, working 3 DC's into 4th chain from the hook, then turn, tochain 3, work 3DC in first DC & 3DC in turning chain, turning again. You go as far as you want to go, diagonally from point to point, across the afghan, then you decrease back down into a small group, finish off, weave in loose ends. She did hers with black Red Heart for 4 rows, as a MC, which is in the photograph on the pattern page & she used ombres for 2 rows, in various colors, too. I've made 4 of these for dgs's before, for one Christmas, before we had 7 grsons.
I'm looking forward to working on the Christmas afghans now, & the colors of their afghans will match their bedroom beds' robot quilts in the same colors of brown, red, green, & blue. Since I'll be using different main colors & various shades of reds, blues, & greens, for each dgs, they'll be able to tell them apart.