Another Southwest Quilt

I think this is one of my favorite quilts so far, for a number of reasons. It is a commission of sorts (no, I am not starting a quilting business), and I was asked to make a southwest style quilt. I was shown some coasters that the person had in their home and I tried to make a design that followed those patterns and designs. This is the design I made in photoshop:

I used pictures of the material I hoped to use and came up with a few tentative designs with various color patterns. This is the one we picked. (Blogger seems to want to put streaks across my photos lately, so sorry for the one across the bottom - it isn't in the original).

After making all of the measurements and calculations (I have to thank my sister-in-law, Christine, who helped me with the math on the triangles), I got the material and put it together. It went remarkably well - probably my best quilt with triangles to date. They actually lined up and I didn't sew the points off this time. :)
 But, I put it together, pinned the whole thing, started doing the machine quilting, and then (yes, it took this long) realized that I put it together wrong.  The part with the green triangles (just to the right and left of the center strip) had one of them going the wrong way so instead of an "X" like formation, it was more like stairs going all the same direction. Hard to explain, and my photo is on my ipad, not this computer, but basically I had to do a lot of redoing and the stitch remover became my friend. Remarkably, I was able to get it all fixed with minimal damage and I finished the quilt. I love this quilt. I was tempted to keep it for myself. I actually bought similar material and I am going to make a different quilt with that.

This is the final product:

up close on the middle (my favorite part, and probably the most complex part too)
And, no, there isn't pink on the bottom in real life, just what the computer wants to do

Upright - I actually uploaded this photo four times, and this is the best Blogger would do for me. UGH! But, you get the idea. Maybe some day I can replace it with the actual decent photo that was taken.

From above, sort of.

 I forgot to take a photo of the backing - but it is just dark brown (and super soft) minky.