Thank you all for the compliments. I do love it, but believe me there are mistakes and I've learned ALOT from doing a sampler and I've been working on this for about a year.
I think one of the reasons it turned out well is that the instructors at my LQS are very patient! One has to be in her eighties, she's the owner and her daughter used to teach Junion Kindergarten. They are wonderful. I only paid $25 dollars for the class, which went for weekly for six months, but they encouraged us to come in if we had a problem to work one on one with us. The older woman worked with me on the hand quilting and I've come a long way thanks to them!