You are not only a quilter, but an artist as well, selecting all the proper shading colors. Did you use Kona? They have so many solid shades. As stated in your previous post, this quilt is amazing and I'm so glad your sisters documented the grand reveal.
I, too, hate shipping items and anxiously watch the tracking. The last quilt I mailed from Illinois, went to Cuba before it finally made it to Connecticut in about a week??? My DH has an etsy shop and in seven years none have gotten lost, but a half dozen have been damaged and one sat in a warehouse for over 5 months. Ugh. The USPS's new policy on retrieving compensation is useless so he doesn't even bother anymore and just writes it off as a loss.