I bought a Storm at Sea kit (first kit purchase from anywhere) recently from Flynn Quilts for several reasons: I'm having vision problems which make me reluctant to trust my own rotary cutting skills (and safety doing it); the batik colors were beautiful; I've always wanted to do a SAS but cutting and sewing accurately for this pattern is challenging---and the kit pieces here have laser cut 'cheats' of engineered corners that will greatly help.
Intimated is the word for what I have still felt. Thank you for the post. I've now pulled the kit out and some of my concerns are disappearing. I was thinking that each size piece ran the gamut for the batik color wave but they don't---much easier for the mathematical mind to handle grabbing any color pieces that are meant to adjoin. Phew!