Thanks! I was just reading all your kind words which are so supportive to a learning quilter, when
LIGHT DAWNED - this must be just like buying a kit, except that I had to go out and find all the fabrics that the pattern called for and then cut them up! I would never have thought of doing a kit quilt because I was afraid if I screwed up the cutting or the piecing I'd be out of luck with not enough fabric. Hm. Perhaps I'll put it on the bucket list!