I like doing the patterns in my own fabric choices, or one-off BOMs for guild drawings or exchanges. Then you have the feeling of a shared experience without identical results. I can't imagine paying $25-30/mo for a year or more plus the investment of time and energy to end up with a quilt that is identical, or nearly so, to many others. My mom and I are planning to use a Civil War quilt blog's BOM patterns to make our own quilt, but with our own fabric choices and a la carte.