One Saturday in March of 2005 the servers for the Lion Brand Yarn Company crashed.

More than 40,000 people had tried to download a new crochet pattern.

The instructions showed you step by step how to create a lacy gray

garment called the Coming Home Pancho. Why was it so popular? The Pancho looked

exactly like the one

that millions had seen Martha Stewart wearing on TV

that month as she boarded a private jet home.

If you don't know her, Martha Stewart was the head of a media empire in the 1980s and 90s.

She showed people in her TV shows and magazines how to lay out the perfect table setting, serve the right appetizer for your party,

or to make sweet potato spoonbread.

Wouldn't you like to have a centerpiece like this on your Thanksgiving table,

a grouping of rich autumn-colored gourds.

I love a good gourd.

But in March 2005, Martha was boarding her private jet from a minimum security women's prison in Alderson, West Virginia.

She'd finished serving a five-month sentence.

There she is.

Martha Stewart, getting on the plane, say begin, you hear the cheers, waving to the handful of fans there,

there with her daughter.

And the poncho had been made for her by a fellow inmate.

Martha's Troubles started in 2001 when she told her stockbroker to sell her shares in a

biotech company.

And that sale happened just before the company publicly announced some bad news.

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