BellaBoo: I know what you mean - I keep having visions of what could go wrong!! But I have to decide how much it bothers me the way it is. I actually have 2 of them.... because I am making 2 quilts. So if I try something and it doesn't work that just means 1 quilt will just have a plain block. I like the idea of hand stitching around it... but I have to give it some more thought because I don't needle point. Nammie to 7: the black sharpie sounds good, I wonder if I could do that uniformly so it still looked nice??????