Thanks everyone for your advice, I appreciate your responses. It did turn out ok, I guess I just wish it was "heirloom" quality! LOL
I quilted this on a long frame rack while watching the 1976 Winter Olympics on television.
I don't remember constructing the top at all, I know it was cut with cardboard templates and scissors and machine pieced. The piecing is holding up well, it is the hand quilting which is falling apart. I wonder why the thread is going bad? Any ideas/ opinions?