The never ending afghan

I just taught myself how to knit about three years ago. In that time, my knitting obsession comes and goes. I have since finished two afghans. This is the first one I've given as a gift. I'm not going to even mention how long it took my to complete. The pattern itself was very simple (maybe that was part of the problem) but for so long, I just could not make myself work on it. In fact, I learned how to knit socks because I wanted to knit anything but this afghan. The good news though is that I finally finished it, and my sister-in-law loves it. I didn't have time to take a great picture, but I think you can get the basic idea from it.