That would work just fine. You can put it together any way that makes sense to you.
Actually, I make mine by arranging my pieces on top of the graph-paper pattern. I sew them together as a leaders and enders project. When that block is all sewed together, I arrange more scraps on the graph-paper pattern. When I have enough blocks, I make it into a quilt.
The only reason I did the tutorial this way is because people had a hard time picturing the scrappy logs.