Great ideas, all. Keep them coming!
I'm glad you like the quilt. I had fun making it, little by little.
Here's how I did it (was a magazine pattern):
6 inch fabric square (fun to collect them, and raid my stash for pieces to cut into), cut the square in half diagonally, making 2 triangles.
The strips were 1 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches each. I used mostly solids, but a few prints were "snuck" in for fun.
I sewed each half of the triangle to the strip.
After pressing, the blocks were trimmed to 5 1/2 inch squares.
When I laid the blocks out, I tried to be completely random, but I did switch blocks to avoid having center strips of the same color, to avoid having too many solids blocks together, or to avoid too much light or dark in a particular area. But really, I kept it very random.