Thanks for the nice comments - I've found these go together pretty fast, and it's nice to be using up some of my rather large candy stash. I had a few totes of 2.5" strips and found I was not using them, so I cut them into squares and now have a lot of them. But they are getting used and that is the goal.
I still have a lot of neutral candies, so I'm thinking of doing 4 patch and then square in square and putting them around as the border. For this one I picked out several large print fabrics to use for the hourglass part. The original pattern only uses two fabrics, but I wanted something with more contrast and more variation. For me, most of the fun is to take the basic pattern and see what modification I can come up with. When this is done, I'll have a dozen lap quilts ready to give away, or hang in my office as they are the perfect size for that.