I wasn’t sure where to enter my project… In the end I decided the Missoni style colours won it!
I absolutely got in love with these colour combinations
For this project I adapted a totally different zig-zag pattern which in fact my blanket is yet again different to the original zig-zag pattern I incorporated…

This is what I did:
A blanket of 168 sts in Garter Ridges with I-cord edges and I-cord bind off as follows:
3 sts I-cord edge; 6 sts as additional edge, 5 times the chevron pattern @ 30 sts each; 6 sts edge; 3 sts I-cord =>

Pattern
- C/on long tail 168 stitches.
Row 1 (RS): K3 (I-cord); k6; 5 x {Kfb, K12, SSK, K2Tog, K12, Kfb}; K6; K3 (I-cord) = 168 sts.
Row 2 (WS): Sl3wyif; K all sts to last 3; Sl3wyif = 168 sts.
- Bound off with I-cord of 3 sts. Then went back to cast-on edge, picked up 169 sts on WS of work and added a 3 sts I-cord edge there too.

Colours and rows
I did a total of 150 garter ridges = 300 rows:
1 cast on row in black
8 black
8 violet
2 red
2 violet
8 red
8 orange
2 navy
2 orange
8 navy
8 white
8 light blue
2 orange
2 light blue
8 orange
8 navy
2 white
4 navy
2 white
4 navy
2 white
8 navy
8 light green
2 blue green
2 light green
8 dark blue
8 white
8 blue green
added extra rows: 2 violet + 2 blue green
8 violet
8 purple
2 navy
2 purple
8 navy
2 white
2 navy
2 white
2 navy
8 yellow
2 red
2 yellow
8 red
2 khaki
4 red
4 khaki
8 orange
8 dark green
2 white
2 dark green
8 white
2 navy
8 light blue
4 navy
added extra rows: 2 light blue
changed next 8 to: 4 white + 4 blue green
2 orange
changed next 4 to: 6 blue green
8 red
added extra rows: 2 violet + 2 red
8 violet
8 black
…
Finished with 3 sts I-cord bind off; then went back to c/on edge and added a 3 sts I-cord there too …

Final size, after blocking: cca 75cm/98cm.

A note on the I-cord b/off when dealing with zig-zags

Used this How to work the I-cord finishing at 90º corners video and adapted the technique to my points and valleys in the chevron edge:

Points = substituted the 1 stitch of the corner for 2 sts in my case (in the photo the stitches b/n the red and yellow yarn markers); so I did:
-K2 and placed them back on left needle
-1st stitch of the corner: K, K SSK (1st stitch to b/off)
-2nd stitch of the corner: K, K, SSK (2nd stitch to b/off)
-K2 and placed them back on left needle
-then continued with normal I-cord b/off = k, k, ssk…

Valleys = the stitches that in the pattern were as ssk and K2tog I decreased/bound off them 2 at the same time, twice (in the photo marked with the white yarn markers):
-The I-cord row made was: K, K, Slip S S, K3Tog = 2 stitches bound off at the same time.
-Made this row 2 times once for the “ssk’s“ and once for the “k2tog’s” stitches of the ‘Row 1’ pattern.

For the cast on edge I picked up 169 sts using a 4.0 mm needle on WS of work then turned and changed back to 4.5 mm needles and worked same as for the b/off edge.

I hate when I have to deal with sooo many ends and I hate blocking acrylic yarn!