In case you were wondering, here's what it currently looks like. I still have to find a backing in stash, the one I'm thinking about should be plenty big if I want to add borders, but I'm thinking just binding.
I made some cutting mistakes, thought I needed 30 blocks with background fabric but only 24 or something like that. Argh! But I recovered, you can't even see that the four outer corner setting triangles are pieced a bit.
If I had to do it all over again I would go with a lighter background, still haven't found that perfect piece of mossy green... But I learned a lot about myself and my friendship while making this and it is an act of love and will be given and received with that understanding