Your quilt is great. Thought that comes to mind is that not everyone likes the same things. Maybe your niece doesn't like scrappy style. I thought after I finish my older daughter's quilt I'd make one for my younger daughter. I was thinking she'd like a pinwheel quilt. Well one day when she was home I was looking at a quilt magazine and showed one to her and she commented ugh theres a lot of triangles in it. So I'm thinking pinwheel isn't the way to go with her's I'm going be sure she like the design before I start hers.