I like trying to come up with my own designs or somehow change an already existing pattern to meet what I like and my skill level. I rarely look into any quilting magazine and go "If I made that quilt, I wouldn't change it one bit". Usually I go "Oh! I like that pattern, but hate the colors/fabric they used" or "I couldn't sew that, but if I changed it here I could do it and would still like it". But I find it more fun to come up with my own design than to create of a variation of an already existing pattern.