Butterflyblue

I am making a baby quilt for my first grandchild. I’m very happy with the top, and I started to put together a piece back that I thought looked pretty good as well. Then my son saw it and I could tell he didn’t think it looked as good as I think it does, so I showed my husband and asked what he thought. He said it looks disjointed, like the parts aren’t really meant to go together. Now, I have not sewn the majority of the back, just laid the pieces out. I did cut some of them, but that’s no huge loss, i would cut them up anyway to make quilts. I do have sufficient yardage in my stash to have a single-fabric backing that coordinates with the quilt if I change my mind.

So I’ve heard the opinions of the males of my household on the pieced backing, and now I would like the opinions of people who actually quilt. I like pieced backings but I do like them to look nice, not just like a bunch of random scraps thrown together, more like their own quilt but with larger pieces than I generally use on the top.

The horse fabric has to have a piece inserted into it to be long enough. The horse fabric isn’t used in the top, but goes with the cowboy theme and general color scheme. I can’t just use the other fabrics (which are all in the top) because there aren’t enough of them and the quilt is wider than WOF.

I am really happy with how nice the top looks, and since it’s a baby quilt, I feel like the back will be seen more than for example, a bed quilt and i don’t want the back to detract from the top.
So what would you do? First pic is the backing, second is the top.
ETA: I do have both some light tan strips and some extra strips of the binding fabric (dark brown) which could be v inserted into the back somewhere. I have some of the green from the front of the quilt, maybe about a quarter yard.