I made this quilt!
My best advice is to take it slow and steady. Stay organized and have fun, you will get it finished if you take it one block at a time.
I did not paper-piece everything the designer suggests (my HST, stem pieces and QST were made overlarge and then trimmed).
I wish I had used more tone-on-tone and less high-contrast fabrics for the backgrounds, and since I was a fairly new quilter when I made it I didn't have much stash to work from so I repeated fabrics more often than I would have liked.