I want to thank you all for your positive encouragement and comments on this quilt. It was a design I debated on for a couple weeks before making it. After a lot of debate I decided to go with it and was very pleased with how it turned out. I can't help but wonder how many of you actually counted the blocks to see how they tied into the date. Funny thing is, I counted, recounted, quilted and still recounted them to make sure they were correct before giving them the quilt and even counted them again in the pictures a few times after I gave it to them....like I was some how going to find an extra or missing block that was going to have to be fixed if it came out to the wrong number.
Its done, out of my hands and I am on to finishing up the koi pond quilt now.
Happy Quilting!!