I feel your frustration. Quilting should be fun, but we do get to rip more than we want. lol I love the LC blocks, but haven't done many. The first time I did one, we made a copy of the block pattern & taped in a small piece of the material that went in each area. I , also, wrote in the number sequence of the sewing. I was doing a "quilt as you go", so couldn't chain piece. As I sewed, I turned that piece of paper every time I sewed on a new fabric strip. The key was to get the first 4 pieces with the red in the center & two darks together on joining sides of the center, then two lights on the other sides of the center. Yours, unfortunately, has 3 lights on the red center & 1 dark. Hope that makes sense. Your quilt color choices will look gorgeous once you get one going right.
Just picture your block with the red & light in the center ripped out, then replaced in the block with the red in the dark blue corner. Then the only other piece that would need to be moved is the last dark on the top, to the bottom. That would put all the darks together & all the lights together.
Probably too much info. Keep up the good work!