I just wanted to add that yesterday I visited with a friend of mine, who has way more experience than my pitiful self :wink: and she said what you did is called Stippling or meandering. Meandering is when you used that style on a large scale and Stippling is when it's a reduced scale resulting in more stitches per inch. She loaned me a couple of great books, so now I need to get a move on making my blocks.