Gorgeous! This block has fascinated me for years and now I have a good reason to make one for our parish priest. He suffers from diabetes and has recently been diagnosed with kidney failure. He has just begun dialysis and I wanted to make a quilt for him to take to treatments, as well as to use at home. I won't go into the whole story of why I chose this pattern but will say I
going to incorporate a cross in the design.
I, too, am going to use blues, with a cream and, of course, brown for the cross. I need to figure out how much of each color fabric I need and get to the LQS (as soon as the snow clears a bit).
Did you paper piece yours or use patches? I am thinking of paper piecing because, while that process uses more fabric, I think it will be more accurate with sharper points. I'm pretty good at aligning points, but this design has so, so many!
Your quilt is beautiful and I hope mine turns out as well as yours. Thanks for sharing!