This was my first quilt 30 years ago. I saw the pattern in a quilt store in Denver, Colorado one summer while visiting my parents and fell in love with it. I had never quilted before but had to make it. The store would not sell me the pattern, I had to take their class. Well, I was only there for the weekend so I would not be there for her class. She wouldn't budge. I went back to Texas and found a quilt store. The owner knew of the pattern. It took her 3 months before the lady in Denver would sell her the pattern. The quilt store in Texas walked me through how to assemble the quilt and my husband's grandmother showed me how to "hand quilt". Three years later I finally finished it. It is made of my scrap material that my husband carted around in our moves for 20 years. hee hee The boarders and backing are in muslin. That summer was the County Fair and my bosses wife encouraged me to enter it. I was "Best of Show". Unbelieveable!