thank you for the nice comments! My sis won the Reserve Grand Champion with this at her county fair and we just showed it in our guild show. Unfortunately, it got mis-categoried into a group that was not on the ballot (not my fault or her's, just happened) and there was another from this same pattern entered and that quilter did some very intricate blocks in the borders, so... but it did get lots of compliments and goes in the mail tomorrow so my sis can hang it for Halloween.