You HAVE made a silk purse out of a sow's ear! I think you have done a marvelous job with what you had to work with. Those who don't make habit out of putting fabric together have no idea of how challenging it actually is to come out with a "thing of beauty and a joy forever." Just BTW, I have seen far uglier quilts. Some of the ones you see at county fairs make me wonder how anyone could have spent good money for the fabric - surely wasted - in them.