Amma, thank you for the link to your tutorial. I will reference back to it when struggling.
I do have Carol Doak's "Show Me How to Paper Piece". The project in that was very clean lined and easy to do. Last night (and perhaps I was too tired) I just couldn't get it to work :)
Thanks to all of this fantastic help I will be able to accomplish more tonight when I get home :) Will post pics.