MimiSharon,
I like your grandmotherly name. It tells where the real focus is. LOL
Thanks for the encouragement on paper piecing. I know this much. Paper piecing is likely to help newbies put difficult patterns together. I remember how much trouble I had doing an 8-pointed star with templates and making all those corners meet exactly. I also remember working with a pattern called broken dishes and giving up. I had 84 blocks done before I finally put them all into a closet and left them there. The corners just would not meet properly and the seams all wanted to go the wrong way for me.
Thanks again,
GramMER