Fabric Gollum makes bizarre quilt top

Do you know the nasty Gollum character from the Lord of the Rings books and movies? He can't part with the Ring and cries 'precious, my precious' all the time. Well I'm like that with some of my fabrics: all my Denyse Schmidt's Katie Jump Rope fabrics and most of my Heather Ross fabrics are preferably kept nicely folded in my cupboard and only allowed to be stroked not cut into! 

Yesterday however I thought it was time to let go of a few of my precious fabrics as I suddenly felt the urge to make a special lap quilt for someone (who will not be named as that person might read the blog) Somehow I came up with this rather bizarre combination of fabrics. I think it works and I really like it. But maybe I'm the only one so I would appreciate some (honest!) opinions! I was also very surprised how much I like the darker tones in this quilt top of the Heather Ross fabric with horses and Amy Butler's 'Love' fabric.The squares are rather big (8.5 inch) so I was able to put this together in a couple of hours.