Four patch decisions

I've been making scrappy four-patches from the leftovers of the 2 inch square box as a leader/ender project for the last few months. I've made about 160 of them, finishing at 3.5 inches, and they are very scrappy, using 1980s and 1990s fabrics (these are ones my mother cut years ago and then never used them.) Some have light/dark contrast, some match, and others just clash. Scrappiness at its best and worst, I suppose.

So, armed with courage from making precision blocks with Quilt Pixie at the Friday Block party, I cut into other 1980s and 1990s scraps from my mother, and made some hourglass blocks. Which layout do you prefer? Number 1 above, with alternating hourglass and four patches.

Here's Number 2, with light squares inside the dark diamonds, and showing up the dark star points.

Or layout Number 3, with the four-patches inside the dark squares, giving me an on point design?

My goal here is to get a throw or single-sized quilt top, using only scraps from stash. No yardage here, no funky current prints (see previous posts) just lights and darks and the scrappy four patches. I'm open to another path altogether. This will make quilt number 5 or 6 from that box of thousands of two inch squares. Amazing what one can do with little bits of fabric, isn't it?