I crocheted this afghan many years ago. I found the pattern in a magazine while I was waiting for a haircut. It was so simple that I wrote a few quick notes on an old piece of paper from my purse. Then I went home and began crocheting that day. What caught my eye was the striking stained glass look. I really love all the bright colors, too. With the black background, the colors really jump out at you. The crocheting was quite unique to me, too. First a row of single crochets is made of black. Then you turn and make a row of double crochets, carrying a strand of the color along hidden in the stitches. When it is time, you switch from black to the color and crochet over the single crochet row using a triple crochet of the color. It's done like a fairaisle is done in knitting, only you can hide the extra strand by crocheting over it. One benefit to crocheting with two or three colors in this way, and also crocheting over a previous row, is that this afghan is very thick and warm. When I finished this afghan, I couldn't remember how the magazine had finished the edge, so I added a pretty crocheted lace edging using black yarn. It took a few tries to get the width right - I didn't want it to pull, or to be ruffly. But I was glad I ripped out a few rows because the end result was just what I wanted.