Love it! And i love your border. I was looking for a border design for my scrappy quilt and I think that i have found what I am looking for. I want a border similar to yours. Now to look through my magazines and see what i have that will work.
What an awesome quilt. Kudos for sticking with it! You should be proud!

Thank you very much for your generous comments... I am blushing!

I guess I became determined after many months of not knowing what to do l
Most of all, I hated to leave it unfinished and having to say "I can't"... that's why it took me so long! No plans, not even sewing rows one at a time, it went in all directions, leaving it for months at a time, going back to it for a few weeks, but boy, did I learn a lot...

I beleive in .... when there's a will, there's a way... call me stubborn also, it's ok! loll

if you have 2 or 3 years... I am a slow quilter! and don't look to close loll it is not "perfect" every where but that, I can accept.

I forgot to mention where I took the pattern idea for the border. here..
http://www.quilterscache.com/A/AnotherLinksBorder.html

It is very,very very stunning beautiful. Love the borders and the double binding...... and everything about it.

Me three! This is stunning! You should be so proud of yourself!!!!

Oh you did a great job. Congratulations on staying the course. It was well worth the effort.

This is so very pretty! I might be encouraged to try my hand at hand quilting, yours is so pretty!

I think your first quilt is absolutely gorgeous! It's hard to believe it is your first, and judging from the results, won't be your last.

I agree with a lot of the others, you did a remarkable job on this quilt. Talk about stretching your abilities? Boy, you sure did! Congratulations on a job well done!