Awww, Karen, don't give it up. I've worked on quilts for many, many years -- and most of the quilts had major problems and they took me forever to do. Then, I took a class last year. OMG!!!! I learned more than you can imagine! Things that I had been doing a certain way for all that time, I learned how to do differently -- and BETTER. Have any places around you that you could take a class? Plus, the tutorials on this board are so excellent.