Thank you board members for all the kind comments and the advice along the way. It has been a fun quilt to make and brought many memories back to me as well. Our daughter is a very nostalgic one, so I believe she will enjoy it. Only problem may be that they live in Texas and it is a warm and heavy quilt. I have been trying to get them to move back to WI and now with their temperatures in the 100's* and ours in the 70's, it just might work :)