Sympathy for your feelings, the Quilt is just beautiful!! Doesn"t look like a Novice did it. I just finished a quilt on the diagonal...Won't EVER do it again. Got half way thru it and somehow got it backwards as I was working in "halfs"....so the Diag. was running both ways. Took two days to rip out., and another two days to resew. Still am not happy with it. Should have just sat it aside and worked on something else from scratch and made table runners, place mats, pot holders out of it for gifts....LOL