HouseDragon, thanks for sympathy and compliments! We do have good insurance, and they will undoubtedly question the oil company actions. Your disaster sounds worse, what with furniture and rugs trashed; we are more like room-by-room hits, but to dry out the walls they have to rip them out at least partially. So we will have messes here and there, but most furniture survived intact. A couple rugs and curtains maybe if I can't wash out the brown stains. Right now Serve-Pro can't figure out what to do because the house is still leaking through half a dozen windows. Due to all the snow in Boston area they are backed up with workload and are bringing in Serve-Pro contractors from the south and west where they aren't so busy.
Cathy, we have an old house too - horsehair plaster and wide pine boards, still with original paint, in the 1803 half. It's a job and a half - have been there nearly 18 years and kitchen still a work in process. Why does the kitchen come last??? LOL it came last in our first house where we lived for two years, in our second house where we lived 13 years, and we have been 17 years in this house where I am still waiting for the island and the soapstone counters and the drawers and the upper cabinets.... I am sorry you didn't get much sewing done but I can understand why - dust and dirt tends to migrate even when you plastic-tarp it off and it is a pain to have to keep packing and moving.
I like the flame-y bit on your Delaware - when that is in the finished quilt with those color contrasts it will really pop. The Washington fussy-cuts look good to me - forming the interior square. I think the fussy cutting gives the piece more movement.