Thank you all so much for the great ideas. I definitely came to the right place for answers. I am going to do some cleaning first and then a lot of planning before I make that first cut. This is intended to be a quilt for our granddaughter and not to be used in a way that would require frequent laundering. It will have beautiful needlework done mostly by her great-grandmother almost a century ago. Thanks again, and I am still open to more ideas from all you super creative people!