Originally Posted by MTS

Well, I do see the water, beach, land colorway you might be going for, especially if you're waiting for some seashell fabric to add. ;-)

French Braid quilts are usually all about value gradiation - light to dark, either going up or down.

Now you could have another plan, and that's perfectly fine, but if I print out the picture of, say, Layout#1, in black and white, I see the values are all over the place. Even within a color, it's not light to dark or dark to light. It's more like med, dark, light.

There isn't a great value difference between any of your darks and lights - again, that's fine - it can be very subtle if that's your preferred palette.

But as set up here, there isn't a noticeable pattern/path/gradation to the fabrics.

See how it looks if you put the 3 green fabrics in order of light/med/dark . Do the same with the blues. Then for the tans, reorder then in the - L-M-D, even though there are more of them.

Can you take a pic so we can see how that looks?