to anyone who started to hand-sew a their first-ever patchwork last June, finished it in September, looked at it a lot, sandwiched it in November, finally basted it in February and who has been too terrified since then to start hand-quilting it... and so has done some practice quilting in the last couple of days and who now has very sore fingers and is a bit overwhelmed that she has a queen-sized quilt to quilt somehow!! This one's gonna take a long old time....