Well over the years I have done the exact same thing as the designers are doing & taken an old design and brought it back to life by just changing colors & flipping the block around. Sometimes what you get is an outstanding an amazing result! Some of my best quilts turned out because of placing the blocks a different way then shown in a pattern. I wished that LQS & fabric stores instead of making & assembling the full quilt according to the pattern would just make the blocks so I can play with them! LOL