Angled: Indian Blanket Quilt

I am doing something new!!  For Christmas Will gave me money to enroll in a quilting course - he also gave me print ups of all sorts of fun courses I could pick from in the area.  None seemed to work with our schedule.  A few weeks ago I decided to sign up for an online course on sewing with triangles (something I've never been good at) called "Angled" from this lady here:

I have not been disappointed!!  I have long been a fan of this blogger and her style and her modern take on quilting.  And the colors!!  Her use of color is something that I definately appreciate.  Also, the online concept for a course is just what this busy Mom needs.  I can read the info. when I want.  Re-read if necessary and work at my own pace - no pressure.

So...without any further ado I introduce the beginnings of my first course quilt: the Indian Blanket Quilt.
I really struggled with this one.  It's been quite the journey.  On Tuesday, I was working with the fabrics that I had chosen and nothing was feeling right.  I had not started to cut yet, I was just planning out the rows.
I began to get a serious headache.  I had to stop and while I was recovering I realized that the headache was a result of the quilt not working and I had to "scrap" the whole thing.  It was liberating and healing.  My headache went away.  At that point I decided to try another of the five quilts we could make for the course.  
The story continues...That night as I was up with my dear daughter, helping her through the teething process, my mind was happily whirling and dancing up another quilt but with different fabrics.  I then came to the realization that the one from the day before was not working for me because I had chosen the fabrics for the wrong reason.  I chose them because they were there and not because I knew they were meant for this quilt. Does that make sense?  I chose them because I had a stack of fat quarters that I love and needed to use.  So...I started from scratch and decided I wanted to use brights and for every row a light and a dark.  I even chose a theme fabric that I used to pick all the other colors!!  It came together so fast that by the afternoon I could start cutting and no headache this time.  Here is what I came up with and all from my stash (that's the best part!!):  

The brown bear paw print is from our trip to Alaska.  

That's my feature fabric on the bottom.  I love it and it's got me 

super stoked!!! 

I'm still in the cutting process so I would appreciate any suggestions or comments on the choices.  I took the top brown-green strip out as the color didn't seem to flow with the others.  Since I started cutting I've had to change things up because some fabrics are bigger than others.  It's been super fun and I can't wait to see how it's all going to turn out!!