Mestuart, Bonnie and Linda,
Thanks for your responses, all of which I appreciate and hope to use.
This is a great community! I plan to make it my new first stop for quilting info.
I haven't sewn or quilted for several years now (mostly due to extreme lack of space NYC studio apartment), but I have a wonderful fabric collection, and I figure I can at least do some very simple tops to use them up before they go hopelessly out of style.
(And no matter how gorgeous prints and colors are, most of them will age to the eye. You can see that if you look at the brown and orange quilts o