Well.......I didn't want to put my foot in it and wasn't going to open my mouth for that reason, but let me say that I think you made the right choices in pulling the fernie ones.
I hate to jump in and give my opinion but its your quilt and it has to be pleasing to your eye and it certainly is pleasing to mine. I can picture that quilt in my house in the mountains with me wrapped up in reading a good "who dunnit"