Thanks for the compliments!! It was fun to do, and even though it's not too great looking, I learned a lot!! I have it on my Halloween wall now. :) :)
jhjack: The back basting was great!! I used it even for the small pieces on the top of the jar and it worked so great. I think I tried (and failed miserably) doing the needle turn with freezer paper on top method, but found this so so much easier. I haven't tried machine, but read an interesting article that showed that the time difference isn't really all that much once you do the math. Here's the article:
http://www.allaboutapplique.net/2009...ed-experiment/
And she even said back basting was even faster than the method she used for the comparison! Plus once you add in time to change thread colors in the machine, the machine time goes up too. This project went a lot faster than I thought it would and the great thing is that it is also portable.
Rachel