top done

This is what I came up with thanks to the suggestions of my bloggy friends. I did add some sashing to two blocks just to make it all fit, not ideal but I didn't have any of the background fabric lift and I like the idea of not sashing between the blocks. While I was putting it together I realized that I had hand pieced these blocks, what a mess. They should look ok when I quilt it (I hope). It is fun to see how much I have learned over the years. Wow, if I progress this much in the next 7 or 8 years as I did in the last I will be perfect at quilting.