Jan, your center is gorgeous!!!! Yes, well worth the wait! You might even find (I don't know for sure)..but you just might find that extra 1/4" when you get the paper off...it does take up some room in your seams...so maybe...
And Elle...I just hate that I can't hold this one in my grubby little hands to drool on it. But....do NOT send it through the quilt klepto....I'd NEVER get to see it then!