I guess you'd deduced from the replies that your quilting is being received quite well!!!! It is amazing and like the others, can't wait to see the rest of the quilt - although, I think just cross hatching throughout will be the understatement of the entire quilt. No matter what you do to the middle, the eye will be drawn to those magnificant borders. And again, I agree, it needs to be entered in a show somewhere. I'm sending you a PM to ask about your quilting services.