Christine, wow, I just popped over from your thread and read some of BillM's thread. Both of you are great, and I can't thank the two of you enough for serving as guides for the rest of us. Like Rottzilla, I'm feeling tempted to make the leap over to piecing, hoping for a self fulfilling prophecy. Reading the threads of people like yourself who have really taken Michele's work to heart gives me lots of hope. BTW, the whole thong thing has been great reading... When my wife is hanging out around the house in her dainty italian finest, I just melt like butter.