I've only just started to doing a Block of the Month type quilts, but I do them picking out of my own fabrics & trying not to have to buy too much outside of what I already have. Right now doing the Farmers Wife Sampler quilt on this board and having so much fun with it am wondering what I am going to do when we are actually done with it.
I have done enough mystery quilts to know that sometimes the strangest combination of colors or patterns can go together so well it's kind of amazing, tho it's not something that I would have planned on purpose.
I don't buy kits or pre-packaged anything. So even if it's the same pattern - it's a unique quilt..