yvonne,
thanks for your immediate reply. top and side is what I was thinking. Or as many sides as necessary. Now I'm going to attack that t-shirt quilt, all blocks made and cut but they're different sizes, 12, 14, 16. doing a row at a time of like size blocks, but will need "coping" on some of them.
But I like Z's idea also, coping strips for life, if we could only figure out how to do it.
Thanks, both of you
Peel