It looks great. And the main thing is that your brother was thrilled with it. Keep remembering that people look at a quilt as a whole. They don't look for all the little things we know went a little off as we quilted it. They can't spot it and really don't care to. And with every quilt you do you improve your skill level. If you had left the quilt sit for four days without looking at it, you would have been just as impressed and thrilled with it as the rest of us. We are our hardest critics.