Best thing about Irish Mist is that it has no deadlines; none. It is all for fun. It will interesting to see everyone's colors when they post their "middle" of the quilt; then it has the upper or head, and the lower, or foot section. It can be done with any light, dark and four mediums with a background. The light, dark and four mediums are all half yards. to do the border around the middle, more dark, and for the border, it echos the middle as well. its set into the background which takes around 2 and 2/3 or something like that.