Hi ladies! It's so nice to see you here! I just joined not long ago and didn't have a chance to browse yet. I happened to run across your posts and wanted to reply if I could. I'm really glad to see your comments. It's posts like this that help me improve the quality of my products. My main goal is to have 100% happy customers and I try real hard to do that. I'm always glad and willing to help out when anyone runs into trouble making a quilt from one of my patterns or kits. I'm always able to help them via email and so far I think everything's OK. So I'd really like to talk to you here, I think it would be awesome, it will give me a chance to learn from you what could be better about my products. I'm also willing to answer any questions you might have, or if you're stuck at a certain point in your quilt, I can help. I'm not sure what appliques were talked about, tho... The Turtle Island quilt doesn't have appliques except for the teensy eyes which can be either appliqued or have cute flat buttons for the eyes. The Dancing Eagles star quilt does not have any appliques at all, the star is entirely pieced. Yes, it is a challenging pattern alright, you are correct about that. You know, maybe one of the things I'm learning right now is that I need to state the difficulty level on all of my pattern listings. Awesome! I'm going to go work on that as soon as possible. :-)