Thank you all for your encouragement. I think I will just let the quilting disguise the patch, and maybe I will be able to get a good portion of it done this weekend! I would really like it sent off, so I can work on the next one, which has a deadline of only 100 days! Of course, it will be hard to let it go. It is the largest, most expensive, most detailed pattern I've designed, the first time doing paper piecing, and the first time using Batiks. Sigh.