Ooo--that's very convincing, sandpat--the popping part. Hmmm--I'll have to practice.
I think with the triangles I'll echo the top two sides, rather than all three... make sense?
I'll go stare at the wood grain... maybe I could just follow the lines in it.
Darn good thing I got those 100 spools of thread for Christmas--I've used sooo many colors for these babies.