Jolo & Letsquilt, I will be delighted to have a quilting sister and mentor. I will be needing some insight when I get my blocks all trimmed to an equal size and start putting the whole thing together. Fortunately it will be about 40"x48" (I hope!) and should be a good size to try machine quilting. I can't imagine trying to do a larger one with my sewing machine. After seeing all of the longarm, midarm, etc. quilting machines at the AQS Quilt Show today, I am beginning to think I am out of my mind to try machine quilting!