"Movement" across a quilt top
The wonderful ladies at my quilt shop often mention "movement" when helping me select fabrics. I'm attaching a pic of a WIP with a charm pack. My tendency is to orient the directional charms top to bottom with the quilt. THe lady I work with most discouraged that saying that having them orient different directions produced movement and that we don't often see a quilt top to bottom. What's the thought?
This layout shows them rather willy-nilly. They are not oriented with the top/bottom of the quilt.
While you're looking - I thought I didn't like the dark/light alternating blocks. Thought about putting them in 4-patches and putting red sashing between these larger blocks. Now I'm about to go back to the dark/light alternating - no red. (Though I do plan to back it with red and perhaps have a small red border. The picture I used as a guide didn't have any borders at all.