Thank you all for your great thoughts. One of the worse parts of this pattern is that it is on point. Which means that if you do not want to cut some of the blocks, you are going to get two of the four sections with only a very small top edge that would be a real bugger to load onto the quilting machine. I mostly do an all-over panto. I may have to change the orientation and just make it square on. But, again, thank you all for your thoughts. I will post it (if I can get back far enough to get the whole thing in a picture) when I get it done.