This is part of a Christmas gift, although I don’t believe the recipient will be reading.  The description will remain somewhat cryptic none-the-less.  I made it with some Tahki Magic in Winter which looks like cookies-n-cream ice cream to me.  Its “polar weight” and each strand consists of four smaller strands loosely held together by the merino halo.  The recommended needle size was 11 but I knit this up in 2 days on size 15’s to give it a little bit of a looser look and feel to it.  The stitch is pillar stitch, which is a lot of fun.  The fantabulous Kristi remarked that it looks similar to crochet and it does, a little.  Its got a great series of vertical lines without having to be ribbed.  I’m tempted to frog out another item that I made in order to change it’s stitch pattern, but I’m not sure Christmas deadlines will allow that.