Sometimes it's an advantage to have started when I did (before rotary cutters) and in a small town with a couple of old quilt books in the library
Back then pretty much all we had were block line drawings with no setting, cutting or other directions.
For a planned quilt (as opposed to a scrappy quilt) notice in putting the blocks together that is does matter which corners get which colors. The example uses dark and light prints. The blocks themselves are all the same and twist to form the secondary patterns. I would tell myself that the geese point the way and would probably put the light fabric on those ends but so long as you are consistent it doesn't really matter -- but the pattern designer balanced the dark backgrounds of the geese with the dark fabrics.