thanks Ninnie!!!
normally I sew downstairs (we have a ranch w/ a finished basement) but since this is a quilt I need more space for it to lay out on then my sewing desk, so I have to sit at the dining room table. it's a bummer....I feel like if I brought it downstairs I'd have a lot of trouble moving the quilt around on the sewing machine since I have nothing to lay it on down there. I have half of it done, I'm hoping I can get the rest of it done by this weekend. "crosses fingers!"