Rachael, Bravo for you! It will be great fun to work on the quilt by hand while you are dressed in costume! Hee.hee!!! You know you can start anytime...just collect a few FE or FQ and you are off! You can get 2 blocks from a FQ ...easily...so maybe make a decision on background...get some of that going and then just dive in with a few fabrics at a time. That way it won't seem so expensive either.