I may have figured out when I stopped but not why I didn't start back up on it. At the home we lived in back then I started out sewing in a corner of our guest room. After a while my husband suggested we dismantle the guest room (because we never had overnight company anyway) and start using the extra bedrooms in that big old house for ourselves. He turned the guest room into an office and I packed up all my sewing stuff and moved into the larger bedroom with the huge walk-in closet on the other side of the house. It was heaven! Somehow I never got back to that quilt and it's been in that plastic tub ever since. I even moved that tub a second time when we retired and relocated to the Ozarks. I guess it was a case of out of sight...out of mind! I'll have to take a photo of it on my design wall in its current state and post it here so I'll feel "obligated" to get it done....LOL.