Well, after 14 hours I managed to finish the block. Unfortunately, only two of my points match and the unfinished block ended up at less than 12 1/2 inches, so it's unusable for candlequilter's purposes. Now I'm on the search for an appropriately sized block I can send instead. Sometime in the future I do hope to conquer this block, but I can't afford another 2 days to try again right now. I'm very humbled at this point.