I personally prefer the more traditional color placement that creates circles all over the quilt. This is one of my earliest quilts, not great fabric choices (mostly Walmart fabrics - I didn't have a stash back then) but you can see the circles. There is also one fabric in there that was part of a guild challenge. I have to add that at the time I found the piecing very difficult, but I wasn't very experienced and I *hope* I could do it more easily now, though I'm not sure. It's getting those little corner bits on correctly that was the hardest part.