managed to finish this quilt up today- just a couple hours before going out to dinner with family- to give the quilt to the birthday girl (the newest teen in the family- my youngest granddaughter) she loves it! ate her dessert wrapped in it in the restaurant.
so happy this one is done & gone- time to move forward.
the pictures don't really show the backing that great- it is pretty neat. and i'm showing a couple detail shots of the quilting in the border.