I'm not crazy about that quilt either, and I think there are a couple of reasons. I don't care for the obvious repeat of the fabric design in the borders, so I would rather have a border that has a smaller print, or reads as solid. And although pink with brown is fine in moderation, I think that much pink with brown is confusing to the eye. Different colors would definitely help, but when you come right down to it, this is a fairly busy pattern with nowhere for the eye to rest. I worked up some different options in blue in EQ7, using fewer fabrics in some of them to show you how you could make the quilt less busy. EQ7 is an excellent tool for this kind of exploration.