Thanks Linda. Photo Bucket is working for me this morning so here's mine. What do you think? Marg

oldhouse - I am in Halifax but this company buys a lot of their stone from Ciot so you may want to contact them and see if they have any earmarked for Ontario. I have no doubt it is more $$ than marble - how much more is the question. I didn't think of asking the price - subconscience fear perhaps :) I googled the stone(name) and it seems to come up as a granite. When it comes in I will def. test it for etching to make sure it is not a marble. Mind you, I wouldn't be surprised if it were a quartzite. I'll keep ya'll posted.

I really want the Ascend or the Smart Divide. I'm totally confused. I pulled out the paperwork from the granite installer and it says not to provide any sink that is more than 18" deep (is deep the right word?) Because standard counter depth is 26" and they need 4" in front and without saying that would also leave 4" in back. However, a lot of pictures I see posted in general look like there is much less than 4" in the back. The granite place had 4 sinks in their showroom (all stainless models) of which I could have one free. Naturally, I dont want theirs!!! I went back and looked at the images of theirs that I saved on my computer and darn if they didn't have plenty of granite in front and back. Those showroom sinks must be smaller than normal! I think I'll have to wait until Monday to call and tell them that I am really set on this sink. The second problem is finding it in stock. All the ones I see on eBay are self rimming at this time and the one undermount is in a brown color that I don't like. Funny thing is, the e-bay undermount gave two dimension...interior and exterior and the interior was 18 3/4". If you were me would you be willing to sign something holding the fabricator/installer not liable for a crack if I wanted to go with the 32X21 Ascend? Any idea why the undermount on eBay had interior and exterior dimensions?

Yes, I figured it out. When you lay the strip on the square, put the top just like she did, at 2 inches from the top corner, but at the bottom, instead of lining it up right at the lower corner, come up about a quarter of an inch as it crosses the edge above the corner. (This kind of stuff is so hard to explain in words, I need to start making my own videos! LOL!) This makes the end pointed and also gives enough room for seam allowance for sewing on the adjacent blocks. I'm changing the pattern a little (as usual) and I made a block the size that she made for the middle but I'm making half-size blocks to go around it. Sort of a medallion quilt. So I had to figure out how wide to cut the strips and also had to change the measurement of where to put the strips across the square. It took me so long to figure this out, I'm so engineering-challenged.